West Virginia Code 8A-2-1 – Planning commissions authorized
(a) A governing body of a municipality or county may, by ordinance, create a planning commission to promote the orderly development of its jurisdiction.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 8A-2-1
- Governing body: means the body that governs a municipality or county. See West Virginia Code 8A-1-2
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Planning commission: means a municipal planning commission, a county planning commission, a multicounty planning commission, a regional planning commission or a joint planning commission. See West Virginia Code 8A-1-2
(b) Governing bodies may, by ordinance, create a multicounty planning commission, a regional planning commission or a joint planning commission to promote the orderly development of land and reduce duplication of effort.
(c) The planning commission shall serve in an advisory capacity to the governing body or governing bodies that created it and have certain regulatory powers over land planning.
(d) Governing bodies and planning commissions are authorized to carry out the objectives and overall purposes of this chapter.
(e) A planning commission has only those powers, duties and jurisdiction as given to it in the ordinance creating it.