West Virginia Code § 8-16-16

Bonds secured by trust indenture between municipality or municipalities
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and corporate trustee.
In the discretion and at the option of the governing body or bodies such bonds may be
secured by a trust indenture by and between such municipality or municipalities and a
corporate trustee, which may be a trust company or banking institution having powers of a
trust company within or without the state. The ordinance or ordinances autheorizing the
issuance of the revenue bonds, and fixing the details thereof, may provide that such trust
indenture may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing ther rights and remedies
of bondholders as may be reasonable and proper, not in violation of law, including covenants
setting forth the duties of the municipality or municipalities and the board in relation to the
construction, reconstruction, establishment, acquisition, improvement, renovation,
extension, enlargement, increase and equipment of the projetct and the repair (including
replacements), maintenance, operation and insurance thereof, and the custody, safeguarding
and application of all moneys, and may provide that the project shall be contracted for,
carried out and paid for, under the supervision and approval of the consulting engineers
employed or designated by the board and satisfactory to the original bond purchasers, their
successors, assignees or nominees, who may be given the right to require the security given
by contractors and by any depository of the proceeds of bonds or revenues of the works or
other moneys pertaining thereto be satisfactory to such purchasers, their successors,
assignees or nominees. Such indenture may set forth the rights and remedies of the
bondholders or such trustee, or both. Except as in this article otherwise provided, the
governing body or bodies maye provide by ordinance or ordinances or in such trust indenture
for the payment of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds and the revenues of the works to
such officer, board or deLpository, as such body or bodies may determine for the custody
thereof, and for the method of distribution thereof, with such safeguards and restrictions as
such body or bodies may determine.

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