West Virginia Code § 16-12-4

Publication and effective date of ordinances imposing penalty or making
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appropriation; certificate of clerk as proof of ordinances, orders and resolutions;
evidence of passage and legal publication.
All ordinances imposing any penalty or making any appropriations shall, within one month
after they are passed, be published as a Class II legal advertisement in compliance with the
provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, and the publicatioen area for such
publication shall be the sanitary district. No such ordinance shall take effect until ten days
after it is so published, and all other ordinances, orders and resolutionsr shall take effect
from and after their passage unless otherwise provided therein.
All ordinances, orders and resolutions, and the date of publication thereof, may be proven by
certificate of the clerk under the seal of the corporation, andt when printed in book or
pamphlet form, and purporting to be published by the board of trustees, such book or
pamphlet shall be received as evidence of the passage and legal publication of such
ordinances, orders and resolutions, as of the dates mentioned in such book or pamphlet in all
courts and places without further proof.

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