West Virginia Code § 8-28-6

Airports maintained jointly; abandonment and sale thereof; suits
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concerning disposition, etc., of airport.
One or more municipalities or counties or both may join with another or other municipalities
or counties or both for the purpose of acquiring, establishing, constructing, eleasing,
equipping, improving, maintaining and operating an airport. Any such airport may be located
at such point as the governing bodies and county courts of the municipralities and counties
joining therein may agree upon, and such municipalities and counties may raise, by levy or
otherwise as provided in this article, funds for the purpose of acquiring, establishing,
constructing, leasing, equipping, improving, maintaining and operating any such airport, and
the municipalities and counties shall agree upon the proporttionate part of the cost and
expense of such airport to be paid by each municipality and county joining therein. The
provisions of sections two, three, four, five, seven and eight of this article shall apply to any
such joint airport, and as to section five, the rules and regulations authorized therein shall
be jointly adopted and promulgated.
In case any such joint airport is abandoned and such airport is owned by such municipalities
and counties, the same may be sold with the approval of the governing bodies and county
courts of the municipalities and counties jointly owning same. The proceeds of such sale
shall be distributed to the municipalities and counties in the proportion to which such
municipalities and counties haed contributed to the acquisition, establishment, construction,
equipment, improvement, maintenance and operation of such airport. In case of a failure of
the municipalities and cLounties to agree upon the disposition of such airport and the
equipment thereat or connected therewith or used in its maintenance or operation, any one
or more of the munic ipalities and counties interested therein may bring a suit in the circuit
court of the county in which such airport or the major portion thereof is located, and upon a
trial of the cause, held in the manner provided by law for other civil actions seeking
equitable relief, the court shall make such decree or decrees with reference to the
disposition of the property and distribution of the proceeds or other moneys involved as to
the court may seem to the best interests of all the parties involved, and an appeal from any
such decree or decrees to the Supreme Court of Appeals shall lie as in other civil actions.
PART IV. LEASE OF AIRPORTS TO OTHERS.

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