§ 10.09 WARDS ESTABLISHED.

   (A)   First Ward. The First Ward of the city shall consist of that portion of the city lying within the County of Putnam (comprised of Putnam County Voting Precinct No. 22), as officially laid off and described by the County Court of Putnam County, West Virginia, and the recently annexed area identified as Carriage Way located in Putnam County. County Precinct 401 (redistricted December, 1981) known as Brookhaven Addition and as shown by the records of the County Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, and residents residing in recently annexed territory known as Carriage Way (February 24, 1983).

   (B)   Second Ward. The Second Ward of the city shall consist and be made up of the area lying within the boundaries of Kanawha County Voting Precinct Nos. 402, 403 and 405, as the same are officially constituted and as shown by the records of the County Court of Kanawha County (redistricted December, 1981).

   (C)   Third Ward. The Third Ward of the city shall consist and be made up of the area lying within the boundaries of Kanawha County Voting Precincts Nos. 406 and 408, as the same are officially constituted and as shown by the records of the County Court of Kanawha County (redistricted December, 1981).

   (D)   Fourth Ward. The Fourth Ward of the city shall consist and be made up of the area lying within the boundaries of Kanawha County Voting Precincts Nos. 409 and 411, as the same are officially constituted and as shown by the records of the County Court.

(Prior Code, § 103.01) (Ord. 83-5, passed 5-17-1983)

Statutory reference:

   Annexation, see W. Va. Code Art. 8-6

   Decrease of corporate limits, see W. Va. Code Art. 8-7

   Wards, see W. Va. Code 8-5-7

§ 10.10 CITY SEAL.

   (A)   The city seal shall be a corded circle, within which shall be another corded circle; and between these two circles and conforming to the circumferences thereof shall be the words in capital letters:

      (1)   At the top, “CITY OF NITRO”; and

      (2)   At the bottom, “KANAWHA and PUTNAM COUNTIES, W. VA.”. Across the center of the inner circle shall be the word, set horizontally in capital letters, “SEAL”.

   (B)   The City Recorder shall be custodian of the city seal.

(Prior Code, § 105.01)

Statutory reference:

   Seal, see W. Va. Code 8-12-1(1)

§ 10.11 CITY FLAG.

   The flag designed by the city’s Convention and Visitors Bureau, which incorporates the city name of Nitro, the image of the World War I Doughboy and the phrase “A Living Memorial to World War I”, is hereby adopted as the official flag of the city.

(Ord. 17-, passed 2-21-2017)

§ 10.99 GENERAL PENALTY.

   Whenever, in the codified ordinances or in any ordinance of the municipality, any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or whenever the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty is otherwise provided, whoever violates any such provision shall be fined an amount not to exceed state law or imprisoned for a term not to exceed state law, or both. Each day any such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.

(Prior Code, § 101.99)