West Virginia Code 13-2C-6 – Joint establishment by two or more governmental bodies
Any two or more governmental bodies may jointly acquire by construction and purchase, or by either, or finance one or more industrial projects or commercial projects or additions thereto by the issuance and delivery of revenue bonds in which case such governmental bodies shall jointly exercise all the rights, authority, power and duties herein conferred upon a county commission or a municipality when acting singly and they shall also be subject to the same limitations, restrictions and conditions as are herein imposed on a single governmental body in connection with the acquisition or financing of an industrial project or commercial project: Provided, That notwithstanding the signing and sealing requirements set forth in section seven of this article, the respective governing bodies may provide by agreement among themselves, approved by resolution, that any one of such governing bodies may sign and seal bonds issued pursuant to this article on both its own behalf and on behalf of all other participating governing bodies, and signature in the manner set forth in the said section seven by one governing body shall be effective as to all other participating governing bodies. The respective governing bodies, acting jointly, may also provide by agreement among themselves, any other terms and conditions of such joint participation.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 13-2C-6
- Commercial project: means real or personal property or both, including any buildings, improvements, additions, extensions, replacements, appurtenances, lands, rights in land, water rights, franchises, machinery, equipment, furnishings, landscaping, utilities, railroad spurs and sidings, parking facilities, farms, parking wharfs, approaches and roadways or any number or combination of the foregoing necessary or desirable in connection with a commercial enterprise or incidental thereto and includes, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hotels and motels and related facilities, nursing homes and other health care facilities, facilities for participatory or spectator sports, conventions or trade show facilities, airport facilities, shopping centers, office buildings, residential real property for family units, and mass commuting facilities, dormitories, apartments and other housing facilities for the students and faculties of institutions of higher education, instructional buildings and other facilities used in connection with nonpublic institutions of higher education, facilities providing housing for the elderly, including, but not limited to, life care facilities, congregate living facilities and adult residential facilities. See West Virginia Code 13-2C-3
- County commission: means the governmental body created by section twenty-two, article VIII of the West Virginia Constitution. See West Virginia Code 13-2C-3
- Governmental body: means any city, town, village, county, public service district, sanitary district, political subdivision or any other similar public entity now or hereafter created, having power to issue revenue bonds, and the West Virginia public energy authority. See West Virginia Code 13-2C-3
- Industrial project: means any site, structure, building, industrial park, water dock, wharf or port facilities, fixtures, machinery, equipment and related facility, including real and personal property, or any combination thereof, suitable as a factory, mill or shop, or processing, assembly, manufacturing or fabricating project, or warehouse or distribution facility, or facilities for the extraction, production or distribution of mineral resources and related facilities, or sewage or solid waste disposal facilities, or facilities for the local furnishing of electric energy or gas, or facilities for the furnishing of water, if available on reasonable demand to members of the general public, or storage or training facilities related to any of the foregoing, or research or development facility or pollution abatement or control facility and includes the reconstruction, modernization and modification of any existing industrial project for the abatement or control of industrial pollution. See West Virginia Code 13-2C-3