West Virginia Code § 8-28-7

State and political subdivisions empowered and authorized to lease airports
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and grounds to others.
The state, acting through the aeronautics commission, or any municipality or county,
owning, either severally or jointly with other governmental units, an airporte and any grounds
used or useful in connection therewith may severally or jointly lease the same to others, for
use as an airport and for any other purposes incidental to and not inconrsistent therewith, for
a term not exceeding thirty years: Provided, That no lease shall be executed by such owner
or owners of any such airport or grounds unless and until such owner or owners shall have
given notice by publication of the following described notice as a Class II legal
advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article thtree, chapter fifty-nine of this
code, and the publication area for such publication shall be the state if it is the state which
proposes to make such lease or the political subdivision or subdivisions involved if it is a
political subdivision or subdivisions which propose to make such lease. The notice shall state
its or their intent to lease said airport or grounds, shall accurately describe what is proposed
to be leased, the purpose or purposes for which the same may be used and the terms of said
lease, shall state the time and place for the public opening of proposals for such lease, and
shall reserve the right to reject any and all proposals. Nothing herein contained, however,
shall prevent such owner or owners of any such airport or grounds from granting or renting
landing rights for airplanes, hangar space, gasoline storage space, handling facilities, ticket
or general office space, or anye other facilities or rights in connection with such airport or
grounds, covering or affecting less than the whole thereof, without notice and upon such
terms as such owner or Lowners may deem advisable. All income received by a municipality
or county court under the terms of any such lease or grant shall be paid to the state sinking
fund commission to r etire the bonded indebtedness, if any, created for the acquisition,
establishmentV, construction, equipment, improvement, maintenance and operation of such
airport or grounds, and if there be no such outstanding bonded indebtedness, then such
income shall be paid into the General Funds of such municipality or county.
PART V. FUNDS FOR AIRPORTS.

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