West Virginia Code 8A-3-13 – Intergovernmental cooperation
(a) With a view to coordinating and integrating the planning of municipalities and/or counties with each other, all governing bodies and units of government within the lands under the jurisdiction of the planning commission preparing or amending a comprehensive plan, all governing bodies and units of government affected by the comprehensive plan, and any other interested or affected governing body, unit of government or planning commission, must cooperate, participate, share information and give input when a planning commission prepares or amends a comprehensive plan.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 8A-3-13
- Governing body: means the body that governs a municipality or county. See West Virginia Code 8A-1-2
- 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.
- Plan: means a written description for the development of land. See West Virginia Code 8A-1-2
- Planning commission: means a municipal planning commission, a county planning commission, a multicounty planning commission, a regional planning commission or a joint planning commission. See West Virginia Code 8A-1-2
- Unit of government: means any federal, state, regional, county or municipal government or governmental agency. See West Virginia Code 8A-1-2
(b) All planning commissions, governing bodies and units of government are authorized to cooperate and share information with each other and may adopt rules and regulations to coordinate and integrate planning.
(c) All planning commissions, governing bodies and units of government must make available, upon the request of a planning commission, any information, maps, documents, data and plans pertinent to the preparation of a comprehensive plan.