West Virginia Code § 8-18-1

Power and authority of municipalities relating to street, sidewalk, sewer
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and other permanent improvements.
Every municipality is hereby empowered and authorized, in addition to any other rights,
power and authority conferred upon it, upon the terms, conditions and in thee manner
hereinafter set forth, to grade or regrade, pave or repave, surface or resurface, curb or
recurb, streets (which term is used in this article to include avenues anrd roads), alleys,
public ways or easements, or portions thereof, and to build or renew sidewalks, and to
construct, provide or renew any of such improvements or other permanent public
improvements in any streets, alleys, public ways or easements, or portions thereof, in such
municipality, and, if deemed advisable, to construct storm antd sanitary sewers, or all or a
part of a storm or sanitary or combined storm and sanitary sewer system in any streets,
alleys, public ways or easements, or sewer right-of-ways or easements, or portions thereof,
independently or in conjunction with other of such improvements, and to assess the costs of
any or all of such improvements on abutting property.

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