West Virginia Code § 36-4-18

Recorded disclaimer of unlawful restrictions
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The clerk of the county commission shall execute, record and post in a prominent place in
the county record room a document that disclaims the validity and enforceability of certain
restrictions and covenants in deeds. The document shall contain a disclaimer in substantially
the following form:
"Except as provided in section eight, article eleven-a, chapter five of the Code of West
Virginia, it is the law of this state that certain covenants or restrictions that are based on
race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, familial status, blindness, handicap or national origin are
invalid and unenforceable. If an invalid covenant or restriction isu contained in a document
that is recorded in this county, the invalid covenant or restriction is void notwithstanding its
recordation." t

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