Real And Personal Property
West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to landlord and tenant [HB-5333]
The purpose of this bill is to provide for a tenant's right to contact emergency services, leave a lease due to violence or threats of violence, and to ensure tenant privacy from landlords.
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Creating the State Property Protection Act [HB-5222]
The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties associated with certain crimes when they occur on state property.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Limiting landowner liability when land is used for certain purposes [SB-577]
The purpose of this bill is to encourage landowners to make land available for recreational purposes by limiting landowner liability.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to payment of property taxes by co-owner or other intersted party limited to their interest [HB-5214]
The purpose of this bill is to limit the payment of taxes by co-owners or other interested parties.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to revision of orders concerning distribution of marital property [HB-5093]
The purpose of this bill is to clean up language relating to the revision of order concerning distribution of marital property.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to the land use, manufacture, installation, and safety certification of Fabricated Self-contained Expandable Box Built Permanent Homes [HB-5164]
The purpose of this bill is to establish state requirements for land use, manufacture, installation, and safety certification of Fabricated self-contained expandable box built permanent homes.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Deceased Disabled Veteran Real Property Exemption for Widowed Spouses [HB-5134]
The purpose of this bill is to provide for a deceased disabled veteran real property exemption for widowed spouses.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Critical Infrastructure Protection Act [HB-5091]
The purpose of this bill is to add the criminal offense of damaging, destroying, or stealing any amount of copper, with felony penalties, providing for forfeiture of items of personal property which are used, have been used, or are intended for use, used in perpetration of theft or damage to infrastructure; and providing that the forfeiture provisions of this bill be governed by the applicable provisions of the West Virginia Contraband Forfeiture Act.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Restricting foreign ownership of land and other interests in the State of West Virginia [HB-5169]
The purpose of this bill is to restrict foreign ownership of land and other interests in the State of West Virginia as specified. The bill defines terms. The bill requires registration as specified. The bill authorizes enforcement of ownership restrictions as specified. The bill provides for a civil penalty. The bill requires the inclusion of notices of foreign ownership in assessment schedules and tax statements. The bill specifies applicability. The bill requires rulemaking. Finally, the bill provides for an effective date.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prohibiting rent control [SB-497]
The purpose of this bill is to proscribe rent control.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to time frame of service of notice [HB-4952]
The purpose of this bill is to provide 60 days to persons who are served notice by purchaser of tax lien to redeem subject property.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
A squatter cannot be considered a tenant in WV. [HB-4940]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit squatting, and to clarify that squatters are not considered tenants.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Uniform Unlawful Restriction in Land Records Act [SB-494]
The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Unlawful Restriction in Land Records Act, considered by the state Uniform Law Commission, which provides a mechanism for amending an existing deed by filing a document in the deed books severs a unlawful restriction contained therein by filing a document with the County Clerk which declares that the discriminatory provision of the deed is void and does not pass through to the subsequent chain of title.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Creating a new property tax category for short-term rentals. [HB-4859]
The purpose of this bill is to create a new real property tax category for short term rentals.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prohibition of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreements Act [SB-457]
The purpose of this bill is to create the Prohibition of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreements Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill creates definitions. The bill provides for enforceability. The bill defines a deceptive act. The bill prohibits recording. The bill creating the process of recording of a court order. The bill provides for a right of recovery. Finally, the bill explains the relationship to other laws.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to unsafe real property [HB-4708]
The purpose of this bill is to create mechanisms for local governments to identify and address dilapidated and dangerous properties; requiring county assessor to conduct survey, and having staff receive training thereto; allowing empower county commissions and local governing bodies to compel removal of unsafe real property conditions; establishing process of designation, notice and procedural processes to allow removal of hazardous conditions; and allowing liens against properties for such costs.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Require Surveyors to offer to record surveys of property [HB-4721]
The purpose of this bill is to require land surveyors to offer to record maps or plats of measured parcels of land made by the surveyor.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Clarifying that tenancy includes persons who reside in sober living home [SB-301]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify that persons who reside in sober living homes are tenants and provided tenant protections granted by law and provide for reasonable attorney's fees for willful or bad faith landlord noncompliance when the tenant resides in a sober living home.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating generally to landlords and tenants [HB-4660]
The purpose of this bill is to revise landlord tenant laws; extending notice of rent increase in month-to-month rentals to 60 days; providing prior notice for landlord to enter rented premises and exceptions thereto; allowing renter to effectuate repairs after notice to landlord if landlord fails to make repairs to restore habituality of the premises; requiring repairs be reasonable and with proper workmanship; and making landlord liable for certain repairs facilitated by a tenant.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prohibiting counties from double-taxing rental properties [SB-364]
The purpose of this bill is to lower rent for tenants.