WEST VIRGINIA CODE
WVC 8-18-5
§8-18-5. Report on completion; notice to abutting owners of
assessments; hearings; correcting and laying
assessments.
When the improvement of such street, alley, public way or
easement, or sewer right-of-way or easement, has been completed,
the governing body shall cause the engineer, or other person
charged by the governing body with the supervision of the work of
improvement, to make a report showing the several frontages
abutting thereon, the total cost, the respective amounts chargeable
upon each lot or parcel of land assessed abutting thereon and the
proper amounts to be assessed against the respective abutting lots
or parcels of land as provided herein, with a description of the
abutting lots and parcels of land as to ownership, frontage and
location. The governing body shall thereupon give notice to the
owners of the property to be assessed that on or after a date named
in said notice an assessment may be laid against the property so
improved as embodied in said report. Said notice shall state that
the owner or owners whose property is to be assessed, or other
interested party, may on said date appear before the governing body
to move the revision or correction of such proposed assessment.
Such notice shall be published as a Class II legal advertisement in
compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine
of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall
be the municipality. Said notice shall show the total cost of the
improvement, the several frontages abutting thereon and the
respective amounts to be assessed against the abutting property,
with a description of the respective abutting lots and parcels of land as to ownership, frontage and location. On or after the date
so advertised, the governing body may revise, amend, correct and
verify the report and proceed by ordinance or resolution to lay the
assessments as corrected and verified.
Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2012 1st Special Session