Any person interested under a deed, will, written contract, or other writings constituting a contract, or whose rights, status or other legal relations are affected by a statute, municipal ordinance, contract or franchise, may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under the instrument, statute, ordinance, contract or franchise and obtain a declaration of rights, status or other legal relations thereunder.
W. Va. Code § 55-13-2
Who may have determination and obtain declaration
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 55–55 (16 sections).
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case 213 W. Va. 80 - Findley v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2003)
Most recently applied in 234 W. Va. 175 - Jerry N. Black, M.D. v. St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon, Inc. (September 2014)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: West Virginia Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain West Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.