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W. Va. Code § 47-23-11 — WV Code / Chapter 47 / Article 23 / Section 11
§47-23-11. Administration; rulemaking; required verification.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner shall propose for promulgation, rules to administer the provisions of this article in accordance with the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-a of this code: Provided, That the initial promulgation of rules to administer the provisions of this article shall be by emergency rule. Additionally, the commissioner shall promulgate a rule which requires that every charitable raffle board or game shall each bear verification, as defined by section two of this article, printed by a manufacturer on each ticket in a game unless, upon application by the taxpayer showing undue hardship, the Tax Commissioner consents to waive this requirement in favor of some other form of verification.

(b) The commissioner shall deny an application for a license if he or she finds that the issuance thereof would be in violation of the provisions of this article.

(c) The commissioner may suspend, revoke or refuse to renew any license issued hereunder for a material failure to maintain the records or file the reports required by this article or administrative rule if the commissioner finds that said failure will substantially impair the commissioner's ability to administer the provisions of this article with regard to said licensee.

(d) The burden of proof in any administrative or court proceeding is on the applicant to show cause why a charitable raffle boards or games wholesaler's or distributor's license should be issued or renewed and on the licensee to show cause why its license should not be revoked or suspended.
W. Va. Code § 18B-18A-7 — WV Code / Chapter 18B / Article 18A / Section 7
§18B-18A-7. Directed research endowment plans.
Status: in_force

(a) To facilitate the goals of this article and to ensure the prudent expenditure of state moneys, the governing board of each participating institution shall submit to the commission a directed research endowment plan.

(b) The research plan shall include, but is not limited to, the following:

(1) An assessment of the participating institution's current research initiatives, including any initiatives falling within an area of research identified in section six of this article;

(2) An analysis of possible strategies to enhance current research initiatives;

(3) An outline of the participating institution's proposed uses of endowment proceeds, including identification of any specific disciplinary hires, collaborations or acquisitions currently under consideration;

(4) A list of proposed uses contained in the research plan including the anticipated costs associated with each proposed use;

(5) An analysis of the anticipated costs compared to the expected endowment proceeds available to the institution;

(6) An evaluation of how the research plan furthers the purposes of this article and addresses the research needs of the institution;

(7) Identification of the proposed uses for which alternative funding sources may be sought to enhance the comprehensive research initiatives contemplated by the participating institution. Alternative funding sources exclude qualified donations, matching moneys from the trust fund and the endowment proceeds generated from the trust fund; and

(8) Notation of the amount allocated for distribution to the participating institution pursuant to section three of this article.

(c) The governing board of each participating institution shall submit its research plan to the commission prior to submitting its first request for a distribution of matching moneys from the trust fund.
W. Va. Code § 56-6-12A — WV Code / Chapter 56 / Article 6 / Section 12A
§56-6-12a. Alternate jurors for protracted civil cases; qualifications and challenges.
Status: in_force

In any civil case, whenever in the opinion of the court the trial is likely to be a protracted one, the court may direct that not more than four jurors, in addition to the regular jury, be called and impaneled to sit as alternate jurors. Said alternate jurors shall be chosen from a separate panel of six after the regular jury of six or twelve, as the case may be, has been selected. Alternate jurors in the order in which they are called shall replace jurors who, prior to the time the jury retires to consider its verdict, become unable or disqualified to perform their duties. Alternate jurors shall be drawn in the same manner, shall have the same qualifications, shall be subject to the same examination and challenges, shall take the same oath and shall have the same functions, powers, facilities and privileges as the regular jurors. An alternate juror who does not replace a regular juror shall be discharged after the jury retires to consider its verdict. Each side is entitled to one peremptory challenge in addition to those otherwise allowed by law if one or two alternate jurors are to be impaneled, and two peremptory challenges if three or four alternate jurors are to be impaneled. The additional peremptory challenges may be used against an alternate juror only, and the other peremptory challenges allowed by this section may not be used against an alternate juror.
W. Va. Code § 16-18-13 — WV Code / Chapter 16 / Article 18 / Section 13
§16-18-13. Bonds as legal investments.
Status: in_force

All public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies; all banks, trust companies, bankers, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business; all insurance companies, insurance associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business; and all executors, administrators, curators, trustees, and other fiduciaries may legally invest any sinking funds, moneys, or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds or other obligations issued by an authority pursuant to this article or by any public housing or redevelopment authority or commission, or agency or any other public body in the United States for redevelopment purposes, when such bonds and other obligations are secured by an agreement between the issuing agency and the federal government in which the issuing agency agrees to borrow from the federal government and the federal government agrees to lend to the issuing agency, prior to the maturity of such bonds or other obligations, moneys in an amount which (together with any other moneys irrevocably committed to the payment of interest on such bonds or other obligation) will suffice to pay the principal of such bonds or other obligations with interest to maturity thereon, which moneys under the terms of said agreement are required to be used for the purpose of paying the principal of and the interest on such bonds or other obligations at their maturity, and such bonds and other obligations shall be authorized security for all public deposits. It is the purpose of this section to authorize any persons, political subdivisions and officers, public or private, to use any funds owned or controlled by them for the purchase of any such bonds or other obligations. However, nothing contained in this section with regard to legal investments shall be construed as relieving any person of any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.
W. Va. Code § 18B-18-2 — WV Code / Chapter 18B / Article 18 / Section 2
§18B-18-2. Definition.
Status: in_force

Whenever the following term is used in this article, it has the meaning described below:

"Board of Governors" or "board" means the institutional boards of Governors, individually or collectively, created pursuant to subsection (b), section one, article two-a of this chapter.
W. Va. Code § 12-3A-3 — WV Code / Chapter 12 / Article 3A / Section 3
§12-3A-3. Financial electronic commerce.
Status: in_force

(a) The State Auditor and the State Treasurer shall implement electronic commerce capabilities for each of their offices to facilitate the performance of their duties under this code. The State Treasurer shall competitively bid the selection of vendors needed to provide the necessary banking, investment and related goods and services, and the provisions of article one-b, chapter five, and articles three and seven, chapter five-a of this code shall not apply, unless requested by the State Treasurer.

(b) A document or a signature received, issued or used by the Auditor or the Treasurer shall be considered an original and may not be denied legal effect on the ground that it is in electronic form.

(c) The Auditor or Treasurer may, in his or her discretion, require documents filed with or submitted to his or her respective office be filed or submitted in a prescribed electronic format.

(d) The Auditor or Treasurer, in his or her discretion, may waive:

(1) Any requirements for a document filed or submitted in an electronic format; or

(2) Any requirements for the certification, notarization or verification of a document filed or submitted in an electronic format.

(e) The head of each spending unit is responsible for adopting and implementing security procedures to ensure adequate integrity, security, confidentiality and auditability of the business transactions of his or her spending unit when utilizing electronic commerce.
W. Va. Code § 62-11C-7 — WV Code / Chapter 62 / Article 11C / Section 7
§62-11C-7. Supervision or participation fee.
Status: in_force

(a) A circuit judge, magistrate, municipal court judge or community criminal justice board may require the payment of a supervision or participation fee from any person required to be supervised by or participate in a community corrections program. The circuit judge, magistrate, municipal court judge or community criminal justice board shall consider the person's ability to pay in determining the imposition and amount of the fee.

(b) A circuit judge, magistrate or community criminal justice board may require payment of a supervision or participation fee of $7 per person per day of pretrial supervision from the county commission pursuant to a pretrial release program established pursuant to article eleven-f of this chapter.

(c) A person supervised pursuant to the provisions of article eleven-f of this chapter who is later convicted of an offense or offenses underlying the person's participation in the pretrial release program may be assessed by the sentencing court, as a cost of prosecution, a fee not to exceed $30 per month for each month the person was in the pretrial supervision program.

(d) All fees ordered by the circuit court, magistrate court, municipal court or community criminal justice board pursuant to this section are to be paid to the community criminal justice board, who shall remit the fees monthly to the treasurer of the county designated as the fiscal agent for the board pursuant to section six of this article.
W. Va. Code § 48-2-204 — WV Code / Chapter 48 / Article 2 / Section 204
§48-2-204. Record of marriage celebrated outside of state.
Status: in_force

If at the time of celebrating any marriage out of this state, either or both of the parties thereto is a resident of this state, a certificate or statement of that fact, verified by the affidavit of any person present at such celebration, or a transcript of the marriage record, certified by the custodian of such records, from the state where the marriage was celebrated, may be returned to the clerk of the county commission of the county in which the husband resides, if he is a resident, or otherwise to the clerk of the county in which the wife resides, and an abstract thereof shall be recorded by the clerk in the register of marriages and indexed in the name of both parties.
W. Va. Code § 33-5-1 — WV Code / Chapter 33 / Article 5 / Section 1
§33-5-1. Scope of article.
Status: in_force

This article shall govern domestic mutual and stock insurers hereafter formed and shall govern existing domestic mutual and stock insurers to the extent applicable.
W. Va. Code § 9-9-22 — WV Code / Chapter 9 / Article 9 / Section 22
§9-9-22. West Virginia Works Separate State Two-Parent Families Program.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established the West Virginia Works Separate State Two-Parent Families Program. The program shall provide funding for participants who are a two-parent family as that term is defined in this article. There is created within the state Treasury a special revenue account to be known as the West Virginia Works Separate State Two-Parent Program Fund. Expenditures from the fund shall be for the purposes set forth in this section and are not authorized from collections but are to be made only in accordance with appropriations by the Legislature and in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twelve of this code and upon fulfillment of the provisions of article two, chapter eleven-b of this code. Necessary expenditures include wage reimbursements to participating employers, temporary assistance to needy families, payments for support services, employment-related child care payments, transportation expenses and administrative costs directly associated with the operation of the program.

(b) All eligible two parent families, as that term is defined in this article, shall enroll in the West Virginia Works Separate State Two-Parent Families Program. All requirements of West Virginia Works shall apply to program administration for two-parent families enrolled in the program.
W. Va. Code § 11-11-10 — WV Code / Chapter 11 / Article 11 / Section 10
§11-11-10. Amended returns.
Status: in_force

(a) When required. -- If the personal representative files an amended federal estate tax return, he shall, within sixty days thereafter, file an amended return under this article, and give such information as the Tax Commissioner may require. Such amended return shall include a copy of the amended federal estate tax return.

(b) Payment of additional tax. -- Any additional tax due under this article shall be remitted when the amended return is filed.
W. Va. Code § 6-8-2 — WV Code / Chapter 6 / Article 8 / Section 2
§6-8-2. Contents of settlement; exceptions; confirmation.
Status: in_force

Every such settlement shall show the several items of receipts and disbursements and to whom and for what purpose any public moneys are paid. Every such settlement shall be subject to exceptions by the body with which the same is made, by the prosecuting attorney, by the chief inspector and supervisor of public offices, or by any taxpayer who was assessed for and paid in any of the funds being settled for, and such exceptions shall be heard and determined by the body before which the settlement is made. If any exception be sustained, the settlement shall be modified and reformed accordingly, and shall then be confirmed, and upon being so confirmed shall be deemed prima facie correct.
W. Va. Code § 47-21A-15 — WV Code / Chapter 47 / Article 21A / Section 15
§47-21A-15. Advertising.
Status: in_force

A licensee may advertise its online raffle occasions in a manner reasonably necessary to promote the occasion.
W. Va. Code § 5A-3-34 — WV Code / Chapter 5A / Article 3 / Section 34
§5A-3-34. Authority over inventories and property.
Status: in_force

The director shall, under the direction and supervision of the secretary, have full authority over inventories and property.
W. Va. Code § 17-2A-6 — WV Code / Chapter 17 / Article 2A / Section 6
§17-2A-6. Accounting and auditing; financial reports.
Status: in_force

The commissioner, by and through his business manager assistant, shall centralize, standardize and integrate the budget, accounting and auditing services of the entire state road and highway program. Whenever there is provided by law a uniform system of accounting and auditing and policies and practices relating thereto for all state officials, departments and agencies, such uniform system shall be adopted by the commissioner. Until such system, policies and practices are formulated and prescribed, the commissioner shall establish his own system, policies and practices for all accounting and reporting services.

All commission accounting and auditing services shall be on the fiscal year basis. The commissioner shall prepare an annual financial report covering all receipts and disbursements for each fiscal year and shall deliver such report to the commission on or before December 1, next succeeding the end of the fiscal year.

The commissioner shall report quarterly to the commission on finances, personnel and other aspects and phases of the road program and system.
W. Va. Code § 19-11E-5 — WV Code / Chapter 19 / Article 11E / Section 5
§19-11E-5. Licenses.
Status: in_force

(a) Licenses shall be issued by the commissioner to certified inspectors of milk production facilities. Licenses are not transferable.

(b) Applications for licenses shall be made on forms supplied by the commissioner and shall provide such information as may be considered reasonably necessary by the commissioner for the administration of this article.

(c) Licenses shall expire on June 30 following the date of issue. License renewals shall be applied for at least 15 days previous to the date when the current license expires. The commissioner may assess a penalty for licenses that are not applied for or renewed within this time limit.
W. Va. Code § 13-2D-9 — WV Code / Chapter 13 / Article 2D / Section 9
§13-2D-9. Use of proceeds from sale of bonds.
Status: in_force

The proceeds from the sale of any bonds issued under authority of this article shall be applied only for the purpose for which the bonds were issued: Provided, That any accrued interest and premium received in any such sale shall be applied to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the bonds sold: Provided, however, That if for any reason any portion of such proceeds shall not be needed for the purpose for which the bonds were issued, then such unneeded portion of said proceeds shall be applied to the payment of the principal of or the interest on said bonds, or held in reserve for the payment thereof. The cost of acquiring any airport shall be deemed to include the following: The cost of acquiring any real estate or personal property deemed necessary, the actual cost of the construction of any part of the airport and appurtenances and facilities which may be constructed, including architects', engineers', financial or other consultants', and legal fees; the purchase price of any part of the airport and appurtenances and facilities that may be acquired by purchase; all expenses incurred in connection with the authorization, sale and issuance of the bonds to finance such acquisition; and the interest on such bonds for a reasonable time prior to construction, during construction, and for a period not exceeding twelve months after completion of construction and any other cost and expense necessary to the establishment and acquisition of such airport and the financing thereof.
W. Va. Code § 8-12-15 — WV Code / Chapter 8 / Article 12 / Section 15
§8-12-15. Municipal inspection.
Status: in_force

The governing body of every municipality shall have plenary power and authority to provide for the entering and inspection of private premises to aid in the enforcement of any state law or municipal ordinance: Provided, That this section shall not be construed as purporting to authorize an unreasonable search and seizure prohibited by section six, article three of the Constitution of this state.
W. Va. Code § 16-22A-4 — WV Code / Chapter 16 / Article 22A / Section 4
§16-22A-4. Hearing impairment testing advisory committee established.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established a West Virginia hearing difficulties testing advisory committee which shall advise the Commissioner of the Bureau of Public Health regarding the protocol, validity, monitoring and cost of testing procedures required under this article. This committee is to meet four times per year for the initial two years and on the call of the director thereafter. The director shall serve as the chair and shall appoint 12 members, one representing each of the following groups:

(1) A representative of the health insurance industry;

(2) An otolaryngologist or otologist;

(3) An audiologist with experience in evaluating infants;

(4) A neonatologist;

(5) A pediatrician;

(6) A hospital administrator;

(7) A speech or language pathologist;

(8) A teacher or administrative representative from the West Virginia school of the deaf;

(9) A parent of a deaf or hard of hearing child;

(10) A representative from the office of early intervention services;

(11) A representative from the state Department of Education; and

(12) A representative from the West Virginia Commission for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing.

(b) Members of this advisory committee shall serve without compensation. A majority of members constitutes a quorum for the transaction of all business. Members shall serve for two-year terms and may not serve for more than two consecutive terms.
W. Va. Code § 5A-3-9A — WV Code / Chapter 5A / Article 3 / Section 9A
§5A-3-9a. Creation of a fund.
Status: in_force

The "Vendor Registration Payment Fund" is hereby redesignated and continued as the "Vendor Fee Fund," and the balance remaining upon the effective date of this section shall remain upon redesignation. Moneys deposited in this fund shall be administered by the Purchasing Division and used for the purposes established in this article. Expenditures are to be made only in accordance with appropriation by the Legislature and in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twelve of this code and upon the fulfillment of the provisions of article two, chapter eleven-b of this code: Provided, That for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2006, expenditures are authorized from deposits rather than pursuant to appropriations by the Legislature.

Amounts collected which are found from time to time to exceed the funds needed for purposes set forth in this article may be transferred to other accounts or funds and used for other purposes by appropriation of the Legislature.
W. Va. Code § 17-4-3 — WV Code / Chapter 17 / Article 4 / Section 3
§17-4-3. Classification of roads in state road system; reclassification.
Status: in_force

All roads in the state road system shall be classified by the state road commissioner. Classification shall be according to functional level of service, either as expressway, trunkline, feeder, or state local service. The designation of a road as expressway, trunkline, feeder, or state local service, shall be subject to change, however, whenever in the judgment of the commissioner altered conditions require that a road be reclassified from one category to another.