West Virginia Code § 16-13-1

Acquisition, operation, etc., of works; acquisition of property; issuance of
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bonds.
(a) Any municipal corporation and/or sanitary district in the State of West Virginia is hereby
authorized and empowered to own, acquire, construct, equip, operate and maintain within
and/or without the corporate limits of such municipal corporation:
(1) A sewage collection system and/or a sewage treatment plant or plants, intercepting
sewers, outfall sewers, force mains, pumping stations, ejector stations, and all other
appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for the collection and/or treatment,
purification and disposal, in a sanitary manner, of the liquid andu solid waste, sewage, night
soil and industrial waste of such municipal corporation and/or sanitary district, including
acquisition of the municipal sewerage system resulting fromt the severance of a combined
system pursuant to section one-b, article twenty, chapter eight of this code; and
(2) A stormwater collection system and control system, including all lines, pumping stations
and all other facilities and appurtenances necessarly or useful and convenient for the
collection and control of stormwater, and an asssociated stormwater management program.
(b) Any municipal corporation and/or sanitiary district in the State of West Virginia is hereby
authorized and empowered to acquigre by gift, grant, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise,
all necessary lands, rights-of-way and property therefor, within and/or without the corporate
limits of such municipal corporation and/or sanitary district, and to issue revenue bonds to
pay the cost of such works and property.
(c) Any municipality may serve and supply the facilities of such sewerage system and a
stormwater system and associated stormwater management program within the corporate
limits of the municipality and within the area extending twenty miles beyond the corporate
limits of such municipality: Provided, That the municipality may not serve or supply the
facilities of such sewerage system or stormwater system within the corporate limits of any
othWer municipality without the consent of the governing body thereof: Provided, however,
That for stormwater systems, within the twenty miles beyond the municipality's corporate
limits the only areas the municipality may serve and supply shall be those areas from which
stormwater affects or drains into the municipality.
(d) No obligations shall be incurred by any municipality and/or sanitary district in
construction or acquisition except such as is payable solely from the funds provided under
the authority of this article.
(e) No municipal corporation or sanitary district may acquire, construct, establish, extend,
repair or equip or thereafter repair, maintain and operate a combined waterworks, sewerage
or stormwater system, which includes highways, road and drainage easements, and/or
stormwater facilities constructed, owned and/or operated by the West Virginia Division of
Highways without the express agreement of the commissioner of highways.

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