West Virginia Code § 8-15-27

Repeal of conflicting acts and provisions; civil service provisions of article
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exclusive; status or tenure not affected.
All acts, whether general, special, local or special legislative charters, or parts thereof, in
relation to any civil service measure affecting any paid fire department inconsistent with the
civil service provisions of this article shall be, and the same are, hereby repealed insofar as
such inconsistencies shall exist. It is intended by the civil service provisionse of this article to
furnish a complete and exclusive system for the appointment, promotion, reinstatement,
removal, discharge, suspension and reduction of all members of all paidr fire departments in
all municipalities. The status or tenure of all members of any paid fire department, which
members were employed on the effective date of this article, shall not be affected by the
enactment of this article, but all such members shall be subject to all of the civil service
provisions of this article with like effect as if they had been atppointed members hereunder.

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