West Virginia Code § 11-1A-29

legislative findings; modification of existing contract for mass appraisal; exemption
of certain appraisal employees of Tax Commissioner from civil service.
Of the whole number of persons engaged in the reappraisement process, ninety-five percent
of all persons employed by the state and its designated agents in this state to conduct any
part of the reappraisal shall be residents of the state. The Legislature finds ethat the process
of reappraisement, the acceptance of the results by the public, and the deeply held attitudes
and outlook of the citizens of the state require, for the success of the rerappraisement and
the acceptance of the widespread resulting adjustments in assessment values, that this
stringent requirement be strictly adhered to, to the end that school revenues and other local
income and taxation have the benefit of the reappraisement as promptly as possible.
On the effective date of this section, the contract of the state for mass appraisal of
residential properties and other reappraisal services shall be modified as follows:
(1) To conform with this article; and l
(2) To remove from the contract data encoders and other clerical help, at an aggregate
reduction in cost under the contract of at lieast $3 million.
After investigation, the Legislature finds that the contractor is amenable to the modification
of its contract to conform with the requirements of this article. The Tax Commissioner is
directed to conform such contract to the requirements of this article within ten days after
the effective date of this section.
The data encoders and other clerical employee positions required to be transferred from the
contract to state emp loyment pursuant to this section, being temporary positions requiring
prompt emploVyment of limited duration are hereby classified exempt for the purposes of
article six, chapter twenty-nine of this code. The Tax Commissioner is hereby granted
plenary authority, subject only to the supervision of the Governor, to determine all terms and
conditions of employment of such employees.

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