| CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA |
| SUPPLEMENT HISTORY TABLE |
| CHARTER |
| § 1. Charleston made a city corporate and body politic. |
| § 2. Corporate limits. |
| § 3. Twenty wards established. |
| § 4. Municipal authorities; elective officers and qualifications for holding office. |
| § 5. Officers in addition to elective officers; salaries. |
| § 6. Corporate power vested in council. |
| § 7. Enumeration of numerous miscellaneous powers of council; jurisdiction beyond corporate limits. |
| § 7-a. Authority of council, municipal judge, circuit and common pleas courts and judges relating to city licenses. |
| § 7-b. Regulation of operation of motor vehicles. |
| § 8. Persons entitled to vote. |
| § 9. Boundaries of voting precincts; registration books; duties of county court. |
| § 9-a. Special registrars; compensation of county court and clerk; delivery of registration books to city clerk; return to clerk of county court. |
| § 10. Nomination of candidates. |
| § 12. Law governing preparation of ballot and method of voting. |
| § 13. The council—Title; how constituted. |
| § 14. Same—Qualifications; vacancies. |
| § 15. Same—Mayor; clerk; president pro tempore. |
| § 16. Same—Representation of new ward. |
| § 17. Same—Exercise of legislative functions; information, etc., from officers and employees. |
| § 18. Audit of books and accounts. |
| § 19. Removal of officers by council or by circuit court of Kanawha County, or by officers having appointment authority. |
| § 20. Rules and regulations for government of council; record of meetings. |
| § 21. Regular meetings of council. |
| § 22. Special meetings of council. |
| § 23. Council procedure for contested elections, and right of appeal to circuit court. |
| § 24. Oath of officers; how and within what time officers must qualify; failure to qualify vacates office. |
| § 25. Bonds of officers and employees; record of bonds. |
| § 26. Quorum of council; compelling attendance of absent members. |
| § 27. Voting in council and recording of votes. |
| § 28. City clerk is ex officio clerk of the council; council minutes and admissibility thereof in evidence. |
| § 29. Holding two offices. |
| § 30. Failure of mayor or other officer to make appointments. |
| § 31. Vacancy in office of mayor or treasurer; vacancy in office of appointive officer; officers hold office until successors qualified, unless previously removed. |
| § 32. Corruption in office. |
| § 33. Power of council to compel attendance of witnesses and production of records, administer oaths and punish for contempt. |
| § 34. Absence or inability of certain officers to perform duties. |
| § 35. Election and term of office of elective officers; appointments by mayor; appointment of city clerk; appointments by manager; duties of mayor and city solicitor; fees. |
| § 36. Appointment, compensation, powers and duties of the manager. |
| § 37. Franchises—Granting; requirements and limitations governing; vote of council required. |
| § 38. Same—Advertisement of application; submission to voters. |
| § 39. Committees of council; adjournment of council meetings; postponement of announcement of vote. |
| § 40. Style of ordinances. |
| § 41. Passage of ordinances; revision, reenactment or amendment; effective date; publication of caption or title; resolutions and orders. |
| § 42. Ordinances to be spread on records of council; "Ordinance Record"; code of ordinances. |
| § 43. Officers conservators of the peace. |
| § 44. Powers and duties of municipal judge; maximum imprisonment for violation of ordinance; appeal; expense of maintaining persons committed to county jail. |
| § 45. Qualifications of municipal judge; not to appear as counsel in criminal cases; absence or inability to perform duties; bond. |
| § 46. Bail. |
| § 47. Authority of council, manager and police officers relating to nuisances; duties and responsibilities of owners and occupants of property; enforcement. |
| § 48. Connection with sewer system. |
| § 49. Construction of sidewalks, curbs and gutters; duty of county clerk to record assessments. |
| § 50. Annual estimate for tax levy. |
| § 51. Authority to levy and collect taxes; limit of taxation. |
| § 52. Collection of taxes. |
| § 53. Powers of collector. |
| § 54. Distress for collection of taxes. |
| § 55. Lien on real estate for taxes—Established; enforcement by suit in court of record; priority of lien. |
| § 56. Same—Enforcement by tax sale. |
| § 58. Depositories. |
| § 59. Bonds—Authority to issue; purposes; interest; limit; taxation to pay interest and principal. |
| § 59-a. Same—For improvement of streets. |
| § 60. Same—In anticipation of special assessments for street improvements or sewer construction; limitation on indebtedness. |
| § 61. Contracts for improvement of streets; assessment of cost. |
| § 62. Sewerage assessments against owners of abutting property; requiring connection with sewer; including cost of drains in cost of street improvement. |
| § 62-a. Construction of sewer systems or common, lateral, branch, trunk or combined sewers. |
| § 63. Resolution declaring necessity for street improvement—Required; procedure for adoption. |
| § 64. Same—Service on property owners of notice of passage. |
| § 65. City executive committees of political parties. |
| § 66. Bonds to pay city's cost of improvement of streets, etc. |
| § 67. Hearing of property owners affected by improvements; ordinance concerning improvement. |
| § 68. Special assessments when several kinds of materials have been named in ordinance providing for improvement. |
| § 69. Vote of council required for public improvement; petition by property owners. |
| § 70. Assessment when public improvement passes through or by public property or property of institution. |
| § 71. What cost of improvement shall include. |
| § 72. Filing statement as prerequisite to action for damages arising out of improvement. |
| § 73. Liberal construction of proceedings with respect to improvements. |
| § 74. Election and three-fifths vote required for issuance of bonds; regulations governing. |
| § 75. Authority of council to lay special levies in years 1929 and 1930 for special purposes. |
| § 76. Power of council as to public buildings, hospitals, libraries, etc. |
| §§ 77—79. Fire department civil service. |
| § 80. Political activities by members of fire or police departments. |
| § 81. Service of notice, summons, warrant, etc. |
| § 82. Contested elections for council. |
| § 83. Duties of city clerk as to municipal elections. |
| § 84. Valid ordinances and regulations passed on or before May 1, 1915, not inconsistent with this Charter, to remain in effect until repealed. |
| § 85. Powers and duties of policemen. |
| § 86. Compensation of members of council; absence from meetings. |
| § 87. Reports by manager to council; reports by officers and employees under supervision of manager. |
| § 88. Additional method for paving streets; assessment certificates. |
| § 88-a. Void, irregular or omitted assessments. |
| § 88-b. Assessment certificates to pay for cost of construction of sewers and sewer systems. |
| § 88-c. Subdividing abutting land for purpose of making assessments. |
| § 89. Initiation of ordinances by voters. |
| § 90. Reconsideration of ordinance protested by petition; submission of ordinances to voters. |
| § 91. Recall of officers. |
| § 92. Signatures and affidavits to petitions filed under three preceding sections; form of submission of ordinance; all city elections to conform to state law. |
| § 93. Additional method for construction of sidewalks; assessment certificates. |
| § 93-a. Transcript of property to be furnished by county assessor. |
| § 94. Authority to issue warrants; vacancy in office of municipal judge. |
| § 95. Statement of claim before action against city for damages for personal injury. |
| § 96. Health commissioner. |
| § 97. Police matron. |
| § 98. Codification of ordinances. |
| § 99. Cemeteries and burials. |
| § 100. Building inspector. |
| § 101. Power to buy, sell or exchange real estate. |
| § 102. Zoning—Power of city. |
| § 102-a. Same—Division of city into zoning districts. |
| § 102-b. Same—Design of zoning regulations; considerations in making. |
| § 102-c. Same—Establishment, enforcement and change of zoning regulations and boundaries of zoning districts; hearing. |
| § 102-d. Same—Change or repeal of zoning regulations and boundaries; protests. |
| Sec. 102-e. ¶ 1. - Same—Zoning commission. |
| Sec. 102-e. ¶ 2. - Repeal of inconsistent laws. |
| CHARTER COMPARATIVE TABLE |
| Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
| Chapter 2. ADMINISTRATION |
| Chapter 3. MUNICIPAL HOME RULE |
| Chapter 6. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES |
| Chapter 10. ANIMALS |
| Chapter 14. BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS |
| Chapter 18. BUSINESSES |
| Chapter 22. CEMETERIES |
| Chapter 26. CHARITABLE SOLICITATIONS |
| Chapter 30. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT |
| Chapter 34. CONSUMER PROTECTION |
| Chapter 38. COURTS |
| Chapter 42. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT |
| Chapter 46. EMERGENCY SERVICES |
| Chapter 50. ENVIRONMENT |
| Chapter 54. FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION |
| Chapter 58. HEALTH AND SANITATION |
| Chapter 62. HUMAN RIGHTS |
| Chapter 66. LAW ENFORCEMENT |
| Chapter 70. MANUFACTURED HOMES AND TRAILERS |
| Chapter 74. NATURAL RESOURCES |
| Chapter 78. OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS |
| Chapter 82. PARKS AND RECREATION |
| Chapter 86. PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND PRACTICES |
| Chapter 90. PLANNING |
| Chapter 91. ZONING |
| Chapter 94. RAILROADS |
| Chapter 98. SOLID WASTE |
| Chapter 102. STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES |
| Chapter 110. TAXATION |
| Chapter 111. CONSUMERS SALES AND USE TAXES |
| Chapter 114. TRAFFIC ORDINANCE |
| Chapter 118. UTILITIES |
| Chapter 122. VEHICLES FOR HIRE |
| Appendix A. RULES OF COUNCIL |
| Rule No. 1. - Time and place of meetings. |
| Rule No. 2. - Committees. |
| Rule No. 3. - Filing of papers to be introduced at city council meetings, and action thereon by clerk of council. |
| Rule No. 4. - Order of business at regular meetings; special order of business. |
| Rule No. 5. - Reading the journal. |
| Rule No. 6. - Draft of bills and resolutions. |
| Rule No. 7. - Procedures for enacting ordinances. |
| Rule No. 8. - Reference of bills, resolutions, etc., to committees. |
| Rule No. 9. - Requests for action; making entries in the journal. |
| Rule No. 10. - Reports of committees. |
| Rule No. 11. - Resolutions and motions to amend. |
| Rule No. 12. - Rules of debate. |
| Rule No. 13. - Call for a division of a question. |
| Rule No. 14. - Use of a previous roll call. |
| Rule No. 15. - When a member abstains from voting. |
| Rule No. 16. - Decisions on questions of order. |
| Rule No. 17. - Presiding officer may relinquish chair. |
| Rule No. 18. - Demand of previous question. |
| Rule No. 19. - Rescission, amendment and suspension of rules. |
| Rule No. 20. - Calling for a division of city council. |
| Rule No. 21. - Parliamentary rules of order. |
| Rule No. 22. - Members of the public speaking before city council. |
| CODE COMPARATIVE TABLE - 1975 CODE |
| CODE COMPARATIVE TABLE - ORDINANCES |
| STATE LAW REFERENCE TABLE |