West Virginia Code § 22-18-21

Disclosures required in deeds and leases
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(a) The grantor in any deed or other instrument of conveyance or any lessor in any lease or
other instrument whereby any real property is let for a period of time shall disclose in such
deed, lease or other instrument the fact that such property or the subsurface of such
property, (whether or not the grantor or lessor is at the time of such conveyance or lease the
owner of such subsurface) was used for the storage, treatment or disposal oef hazardous
waste. The provisions of this subsection only apply to those grantors or lessors who owned
or had an interest in the real property when the same or the subsurfacer thereof was used for
the purpose of storage, treatment or disposal of hazardous waste or who have actual
knowledge that such real property or the subsurface thereof was used for such purpose or
purposes at any time prior thereto.
(b) Any grantee of real estate or of any substrata underlying said real estate or any lessee for
a term who intends to use the real estate conveyed or let or any substrata underlying the
same for the purpose of storing, treating or disposing of hazardous waste shall disclose in
writing at the time of such conveyance or lease or within thirty days prior thereto such fact
to the grantor or lessor of such real estate or ssubstrata. Such disclosure shall describe the
proposed location upon said property of the site to be used for the storage, treatment or
disposal of hazardous waste, the identity of such waste, the proposed method of storage,
treatment or disposal to be used witgh respect to such waste and any and all other
information required by rules of the director.

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