West Virginia Code 8-23-5 – Additional approval of intergovernmental agreements required in certain cases
In the event that an agreement entered into pursuant to the provisions of section three of this article shall deal in whole or in part with the providing of services or facilities with respect to which an officer or agency of this state has Constitutional or statutory powers of control, the agreement shall, as a condition precedent to its becoming effective, be submitted to the state officer or agency having such power of control and shall be approved or disapproved by him or it as to all matters within his or its jurisdiction in the same manner and subject to the same requirements and provisions governing the action of the Attorney General under said section three of this article. This requirement of the submission and approval shall be in addition to and not in substitution for the requirement of submission to and approval by the Attorney General.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 8-23-5
- 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.
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
- State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10