W. Va. Code § 8A-2-10
Governing body's duties.
(a) The county commission in the case of a county planning commission, and the governing body of the municipality in the case of a municipal planning commission, shall provide the planning commission with:
- (1) Suitable offices for the holding of meetings and the preservation of plans, maps, documents and accounts; and
- (2) Appropriate money to defray the reasonable expenses of the planning commission.
- (b) In the ordinance creating a multicounty planning commission, a regional planning commission or a joint planning commission, the governing bodies shall designate office space and will each equally appropriate money sufficient to defray the reasonable expenses of the planning commission.
- (c) Planning commissions are authorized to accept gifts, funds and donations which will be deposited with the appropriate governing body in a special nonreverting planning commission fund to be available for expenditures by the planning commission for the purpose designated by the donor.