§7-1-3w. Authority to establish county beautification councils;
organization; county commissions not obligated for
debts of councils; powers and duties; expenditures of
funds by councils; authority of county commissions to
appropriate moneys.
In addition to all other powers and duties now conferred by
law upon county commissions, county commissions are hereby
authorized and empowered to establish county beautification
councils which shall be composed of such number of persons with
such organizational requirements and limitations as the county
commission creating any such council may direct. Such councils
shall be deemed to be agencies of the county commissions; however,
county commissions shall not be obligated for any debt or
obligation which may be created by such councils. The councils are
empowered to employ such persons as are necessary to accomplish the
undertakings assumed by them.
Each council shall be charged with the duty of improving the
aesthetic qualities of the landscape within the county, and to such
intent and purpose the councils may, with the approval of the
commissioner of the West Virginia department of highways, engage in
the planting, cultivation and maintenance of shrubs, trees and
other plants on highway property and rights-of-way at such places
and under such conditions as may be established by said
commissioner.
County commissions may appropriate to such councils such funds
as the county commissions deem appropriate. Councils may receive and expend appropriations for the purposes herein indicated and
may, likewise, receive and expend appropriations, gifts, grants or
contributions from the state of West Virginia, the federal
government, or any agency of either, and from any other person,
corporation or entity of whatever nature.