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The Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program was created by the West Virginia Legislature in 2007 and offers broad-based authority to participating municipalities by allowing them to implement ordinances, acts, resolutions, rules and regulations without regard to state laws, with the exception that proposals must comply with the United States and West Virginia constitutions and federal law, as well as Chapters 60A, 61, and 62 of the West Virginia Code.  In March 2015, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 323, which mandates that four Class IV municipalities (those with fewer than 2,000 residents) must be permitted to participate in the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program.  More information regarding West Virginia home rule can be found on the Department of Commerce site here.