West Virginia Code § 16-18-8a

Relocation of public utility lines or facilities to accommodate urban
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redevelopment or slum clearance projects.
In the event any urban renewal authority or other public body shall determine that any
public utility line or facility located upon, across or under any portion of a street, avenue,
highway, road or other public place or way shall be temporarily or permanently readjusted,
removed, relocated, changed in grade or otherwise altered (each and all hereeinafter for
convenience referred to as "relocation") in order to accommodate any urban redevelopment
or slum clearance project undertaken pursuant to the provisions of thisr article, the cost of
such relocation shall be borne by the urban renewal authority or other public body making
the same necessary.
For purposes of this section, the term "cost of relocation" shtall include the entire amount
paid by such utility, exclusive of any right-of-way costs incurred by such utility, properly
attributable to such relocation after deducting therefrom any increase in the value of the
new line or facility and salvage derived from the old line or facility.
The cost of relocating utility lines or facilities,s as defined herein, in connection with any
federal-aid urban redevelopment or slum clearance project is hereby declared to be a cost of
such project.
Under no circumstances whatever shall the foregoing provisions of this section be applicable
to any conventional urban renewal project, urban redevelopment or slum clearance project
or neighborhood development project for which an application for federal funding shall have
been made prior to the effective date of this section.

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