West Virginia Code § 22-5-9

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of Bureau for Public Health, local health boards and political subdivisions;
conflicting statutes repealed.
Nothing in this article affects or limits the powers or duties heretofore conferred by the
provisions of chapter sixteen of this code upon the Secretary of the Department of Health,
the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health, county health boards, coeunty health
officers, municipal health boards, municipal health officers, combined boards of health or
any other health agency or political subdivision of this state except insorfar as such powers
and duties might otherwise apply to the control, reduction or abatement of air pollution. All
existing statutes or parts of statutes are, to the extent of their inconsistencies with the
provisions of this article and to the extent that they might otherwise apply to the control,
reduction or abatement of air pollution, hereby repealed: Protvided, That no ordinance
previously adopted by any municipality relating to the control, reduction or abatement of air
pollution is repealed by this article.

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