§11-8-12a Adjourned session of board of education to hear objections to proposed levies; approval of estimate and levy by tax commissioner; first levy for bonded and other indebtedness and indebtednes - West Virginia Statutes

§11-8-12a. Adjourned session of board of education to hear objections to proposed levies; approval of estimate and levy by tax commissioner; first levy for bonded and other indebtedness and indebtedness not bonded, second for permanent improvement fund, then for current expenses.

Each board of education when it reconvenes on the third Tuesday in April shall proceed in a manner similar in all respects to that provided for in section ten-a of this article. The board shall not finally enter any levy until it has been approved in writing by the tax commissioner. After receiving the approval, the board shall enter the statement as approved in its record of proceedings, together with the written approval: Provided, That for the fiscal year one thousand nine hundred ninety-three only, each board of education may delay its final entry of the levy until no later than the first Thursday in May, by which time each board shall have entered the statement as approved in its record of proceedings, together with the written approval: Provided, however, That any delay by a county board of education in the entry of its final levy pursuant to the provisions of this section in the fiscal year one thousand nine hundred ninety-three and any action taken prior to the effective date of this section that is not inconsistent with the provisions of this section or other applicable levy rate sections of this code are hereby ratified and confirmed as having full force and effect.

The board shall levy as many cents per hundred dollars' assessed valuation on each class of property in the county or in the area of a pre-existing school district, as the case may be, as will produce the amounts, according to the last assessment, shown to be necessary by the statement in the following order:

First, for the bonded debt and for the contractual debt not bonded, if any, of any school district of the county existing prior to twenty-second day of May, one thousand nine hundred thirty-three, and incurred prior to the adoption of the Tax Limitation Amendment;

Second, for the permanent improvement fund;

Third, for general current expenses.

The rates of levy for each purpose shall not exceed the amounts fixed by section six-c unless another rate is authorized by the tax commissioner or set by the Legislature in accordance with this article. When less than the maximum levies are imposed, the levies on each class of property shall be in the same proportions as the maximums authorized.