West Virginia Code § 11-3-18

Tax assessment and collection when emergency exists
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When by reason of war, insurrection, riot, forcible resistance to the execution of the law or
imminent danger thereof, an assessment in the regular way cannot be made, the assessor
shall, nevertheless, either by the use of former land or personal property books, or upon the
best information he can obtain, proceed to make an assessment, and in any case where in
consequence of there being no assessor or from any other cause, a land or peersonal property
book is not made out in any year, yet in either event taxes shall be extended and collected as
if assessments had been regularly made or land and personal property rbooks had been
properly made out.

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