West Virginia Code § 8-16-24

Protection and enforcement of rights of bondholders, etc.; receivership;
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effect of receivership on lease agreement.
Any holder of any such bonds, or any of the coupons attached thereto, and the trustee, if
any, except to the extent that the rights herein given may be restricted by the ordinance
authorizing the issuance of the bonds or by the trust indenture, may by civil action,
mandamus or other proper proceeding enforce the statutory mortgage lien ecreated and
granted in section twenty-two of this article, protect and enforce any and all rights granted
hereunder or under any such ordinance or trust indenture, and may enrforce and compel
performance of all duties required by the provisions of this article or by any such ordinance
or trust indenture to be performed by the municipality or municipalities, or by the board or
any officer, including the making and collecting of reasonable and sufficient rates or charges
for services rendered by the works. If there be default in thet payment of the principal of or
interest upon any of the bonds, or of both principal and interest, any court having
jurisdiction shall appoint a receiver to administer the works on behalf of the municipality or
municipalities, and the bondholders or trustee, or both, except as so restricted, with power
to charge and collect rates or charges sufficient to provide for the payment of the expenses
of repair (including replacements), maintenance and operation, and also to pay any bonds
and interest outstanding, and to apply the income or other revenue in conformity with this
article, and the said ordinance or trust indenture, or both, and the power herein provided for
the appointment of a receiver and the administration by the court of the works on behalf of
the municipality or municipalities, and the bondholders or trustee, or both, shall apply to
cases where such works are opeerated by a lessee of the municipality or municipalities as
well as to cases where works are operated by the municipality or municipalities. In case a
receiver is appointed forL works operated by a lessee of a municipality or municipalities, the
lease agreement then existing between the municipality or municipalities and the lessee ipso
facto thereby shall b e terminated and all property, equipment, bills receivable and assets of
every kind, usVed in connection with the operation of such works, shall pass to the receiver
and upon the termination of such receivership, such works, equipment, property, bills
receivable and assets of every kind then in the hands of the receiver thereupon shall pass to
the municipality or municipalities.
PART X. CONSTRUCTION; EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION.

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