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WV Code § 3-12-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 3. Elections|Article 12. West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program|§3-12-15. Criminal Penalties

(a) A participating or certified candidate who, either personally or through his or her committee, knowingly accepts contributions or benefits in excess of those allowed under this article, spends or obligates funds in excess of the public campaign financing funding to which he or she is entitled or uses the benefits or funding for a purpose other than those permitted under this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500, or confined in jail for up to thirty days or both.(b) A participating or certified candidate who, either personally or through his or her committee or financial agent, provides false information to, or conceals or withholds information from, the State Election Commission or the Secretary of State is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000, or confined in jail for up to one year or both.
WV Code § 3-12-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 3. Elections|Article 12. West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program|§3-12-16. Civil Penalties

(a) If a participating or certified candidate or his or her committee or financial agent unintentionally accepts contributions from a private source in violation of this article or spends or obligates to spend more than the amount of public financing money he or she is eligible to receive from the fund pursuant to section eleven of this article, the State Election Commission may order the candidate to pay to the State Election Commission an amount equal to the amount of the contribution, expenditure or obligation.(b) If a participating or certified candidate or his or her committee or financial agent intentionally accepts contributions from a private source in violation of this article or spends or obligates more than the amount of public campaign financing he or she is eligible to receive from the fund, the State Election Commission shall order the candidate to pay to the State Election Commission an amount equal to ten times the amount of the contribution, expenditure or obligation. The candidate shall pay the civil penalty authorized under this subsection within seven days of receipt of written notice from the State Election Commission of the imposition of the penalty.(c) If a participating or certified candidate fails to pay any moneys required to be paid to the State Election Commission or returned to the fund under this article, the State Election Commission may order the candidate to pay an amount equal to three times the amount that should have been paid to the State Election Commission or returned to the fund.(d) In addition to any other penalties imposed by law, the State Election Commission may impose a civil penalty for a violation by or on behalf of any candidate of any reporting requirement imposed by this article in the amount of $100 a day.(e) All penalties collected by the State Election Commission pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the fund. The candidate and the candidate's campaign account are jointly and severally responsible for the payment of any penalty imposed pursuant to this section.
WV Code § 4-1-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-2. How Appropriations Made and Applied

No money shall be appropriated by resolution of either house, or by joint resolution of the Legislature; but when any money has been appropriated by law, the application of the same, in pursuance of the law, may be directed by resolution.
WV Code § 4-1-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-3. Suits Against Members of Legislature; Exemption From Arrest, Trial, Judgment and Levy

Any suit may be commenced and prosecuted against a member of the Legislature, if his person be not taken into custody or imprisoned. But no trial shall be had or judgment rendered in any such suit, nor shall any execution or attachment be levied upon the property of such member during the sessions of the Legislature or for ten days immediately before or immediately after session.
WV Code § 4-1-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-4. Compelling Members to Attend

Either house, or a less number than a quorum thereof, when assembled at the time and place of meeting, may, by order or resolution, direct such of its members as are absent without leave to be brought before the house. The order or resolution shall be executed by the sergeant-at-arms, or any messengers deputed by him, or appointed for the purpose by the officer presiding at the meeting; and a copy of such order or resolution, attested by the presiding officer or clerk, shall be a sufficient warrant. The sergeant or messengers shall thereupon forthwith arrest the members so absent, and bring them before the meeting, and each of them, as he is brought in, shall be heard, if he wishes it, in excuse of his absence. If any member so brought in do not render such an excuse for his absence as the house, or such of its members as are present, shall deem sufficient, he may be fined not exceeding $6, censured, or discharged from custody, as the house, or such of its members as are present, shall order; and in either case shall pay the costs of the arrest. If the excuse be deemed sufficient, the costs of the arrest shall be certified by the presiding officer or clerk, and be paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the Legislature.
WV Code § 4-1-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-5. Authority to Subpoena Witnesses and Documents; Penalty for Refusal to Comply; Applicability of Whistle-Blower Law

(a) When the Senate or House of Delegates, or a committee of either house, authorized to examine witnesses, by resolution or by rules of the Senate or of the House of Delegates, shall order the attendance of any witness, or the production of any books, papers, documents or records necessary for the Senate, House of Delegates or a committee thereof to perform its duties, a summons shall be issued accordingly, signed by the presiding officer or clerk of such house, or the chairman of such committee, directed to the sheriff or other proper officer of any county, or to the sergeant at arms of such house, or any person deputed by him. When a committee is appointed by each house under any joint or concurrent resolution, and directed to sit jointly, with authority to examine witnesses or send for persons or documents, the subpoena aforesaid may be signed by the chairman of the committee on the part of the Senate or the chairman of the committee on the part of the House of Delegates.(b) If any witness subpoenaed to appear at any hearing or meeting pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall refuse to appear or to answer inquiries there propounded, or shall fail or refuse to produce books, papers, documents or records within his or her control when the same are subpoenaed, the Senate, House of Delegates or a committee thereof, in its discretion may enforce obedience to its subpoena by attachment, fine or imprisonment, or it may report the facts to the circuit court of Kanawha County or any other court of competent jurisdiction and such court shall compel obedience to the subpoena as though such subpoena had been issued by such court in the first instance.Witnesses subpoenaed to attend such hearings or meetings, except officers or employees of the state, shall be allowed the same mileage and per diem as is allowed witnesses before any petit jury in this state.(c) The provisions of article one, chapter six-c of this code are expressly applicable to persons testifying pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section.
WV Code § 4-1-5a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-5a. When Witness May Be Compelled to Give Evidence Against Himself Or; Immunity of Witness From Prosecution

In any proceeding by a committee or commission of the Legislature, created by it by general law or any concurrent resolution, which has the authority to issue subpoenas or subpoenas duces tecum, no person shall be excused from testifying or from producing documentary or other evidence upon the ground that such testimony or evidence may incriminate or tend to incriminate him, if the committee or commission before which he is examined is of the opinion that the ends of justice may be promoted by compelling such testimony or evidence. If, but for this section, the person would have been excused from so testifying or from producing such evidence, then if the person is so compelled to testify or produce other evidence and if such testimony or evidence is self-incriminating, such self-incriminating testimony or evidence shall not be used or receivable in evidence against him in any proceeding against him thereafter taking place other than a prosecution for perjury in the giving of such evidence, and the person so compelled to testify or furnish evidence shall not be prosecuted for the offense in regard to which he is so compelled to testify or furnish evidence, and he shall have complete legal immunity in regard thereto.
WV Code § 4-1-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-6. Administration of Oaths to Members of Legislature, Officers and Witnesses

The presiding officer or clerk of either house may administer the oaths of office to any member or officer of such house, and the oath to any witness to be examined before such house or its committee, or before any joint committee.When any committee of either house, or joint committee, is authorized to examine witnesses, or to send for persons and papers, the chairman of such committee, or in his absence any member thereof, may administer the oath to any witness produced to testify before it.
WV Code § 4-1-6a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-6a. False Swearing in a Legislative Proceeding; Penalty

(a) A person may not willfully swear falsely, under oath or affirmation lawfully administered, in a legislative proceeding concerning any matter or thing material or not material, or procure, or attempt to procure, another person to do so.(b) A person who violates subsection (a) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 and, in the discretion of the court, be confined in jail not more than one year.(c) A person convicted of violating subsection (a) of this section is ineligible to hold any office or position of honor, trust or profit in this state, and to serve as a juror.
WV Code § 4-1-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-7. Flags Displayed During Sessions

The flag of the United States, and the flag of the State of West Virginia shall be flown over the state Capitol building year-round; and the POW-MIA flag shall be flown over the state Capitol building on Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, National POW/MIA Recognition Day and Veteran's Day each year.
WV Code § 4-1-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-8. Officers and Employees; Tenure

Each house of the Legislature shall, at the commencement of the regular session thereof assembled and held in odd-numbered years, elect a presiding officer, a clerk, a sergeant-at-arms and a doorkeeper, whose terms of office shall, unless sooner vacated by death, resignation or removal, be and continue until the regular meeting of the Legislature in the odd-numbered year next thereafter, and until their successors are elected and qualified. Any person who is an officer of any state, county, district or municipal political party executive committee shall not be eligible to serve as clerk of either house of the Legislature. The clerk of each house shall devote full time to his public duties to the exclusion of any other employment. At each session of the Legislature, there shall be appointed for each house such employees and technical assistants as may be authorized by law or by resolution of the respective houses. Any person so appointed may be removed by the appointing authority and another appointed in his stead: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent either house from removing any appointee.
WV Code § 4-1-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-9. Assistant Clerks; Committee Clerks to Assist

Whenever it may be necessary, the clerk of the Senate may appoint one assistant, and the Clerk of the House of Delegates not exceeding three assistants, and such clerks may from time to time remove any assistant from office and appoint another in his stead. Every such assistant, during his continuance in office, may discharge any of the official duties of his principal. And it shall be the duty of every committee clerk in each house, when not engaged in the actual discharge of his duties as such, to assist the clerk of either house in the discharge of any of his duties, whenever called upon by such clerk to do so.
WV Code § 4-1-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-10. Powers and Duties of Officers

The officers of each house shall respectively have such powers and perform such duties as are conferred upon or required of them by law, or by the rules or orders of their respective houses.
WV Code § 4-1-10a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-10a. Filling Vacancies in the Office of Presiding Officer of the Two Houses

In case of a vacancy in the office of President of the Senate or Speaker of the House of Delegates, when the Legislature is not in session, resulting from death, resignation or any other cause, the Governor shall by proclamation convene the house in which the vacancy exists in session within ten days after such vacancy occurs for the purpose of choosing a presiding officer as provided by section twenty-four, article six of the Constitution of the State.
WV Code § 4-1-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-11. Vacancies in Clerkships

A vacancy in the office of clerk of the Senate or Clerk of the House of Delegates, happening when the Legislature is not in session, shall be filled by appointment by the President of the Senate for a vacancy occurring in the office of clerk of the Senate and by the Speaker of the House of Delegates for a vacancy occurring in the office of Clerk of the House of Delegates, to expire at the meeting of the next regular or extraordinary session of the Legislature. If any such vacancy happen when the Legislature is in session, it shall be filled in the same manner as is provided for the election of such officer at the commencement of each regular session.
WV Code § 4-1-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-12. Custody of Journals and Documents; Certified Copies

The journals, papers and documents of each house shall be in the custody of its clerk, and copies thereof may be certified by him.
WV Code § 4-1-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-13. Clerk of House to Be Keeper of Rolls; Compensation; Duties as to Acts; Copies; Fees; Printing

The Clerk of the House of Delegates shall be the keeper of the rolls, and for his duties as such he shall receive $300 in addition to his salary as clerk. After a bill or joint resolution has passed both houses, he shall cause the same to be correctly recorded, in a legible manner, in a well-bound book, to be kept for that purpose exclusively, which recording shall be equivalent to enrollment. He shall have the custody of the acts and joint resolutions of the Legislature and shall make a certified copy of them for any person requiring the same. For a copy of an act or joint resolution, he may demand of the person at whose request it was made 50¢, or, at his option, 3¢ for every thirty words contained therein. As soon as possible after the close of each session, he shall prepare a well-arranged index to the acts and joint resolutions passed at such session, and shall furnish to the printer who has the contract for such printing the manuscript of such acts, resolutions and index and all matter directed by law to be printed therewith, properly prepared and arranged for publication, and shall superintend the printing thereof.
WV Code § 4-1-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-14. Copies of Enrolled Bills Mailed to Courts; Effect

The clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Delegates, acting jointly, shall mail, to the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals and judges of the circuit, common pleas, intermediate and criminal courts of this state, copies of enrolled bills of a general nature, taking effect from their passage; and enrolled copies of municipal charters and acts of a local nature shall be furnished only to courts of the local jurisdiction. Copies of enrolled bills furnished in accordance with this section shall bear the stamp of the clerks of the two houses, showing the date that each act becomes effective, and the enrolled bills so furnished and attested shall be regarded by the courts of this state as having the same force and effect as any and all other laws.
WV Code § 4-1-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-15. Fees of Clerks for Copying or Recording

For any copying or recording (other than that mentioned in section twelve of this article and such as he is required to do for the Legislature, or either house, or a committee thereof, in the discharge of his official duty) the clerk of either house may demand and receive of and from the person, at whose request it is done, a fee reasonably calculated to reimburse the clerk for the cost of such copying or recording.
WV Code § 4-1-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 4. The Legislature|Article 1. Officers, Members and Employees; Appropriations; Investigations; Display of Flags; Records; Use of Capitol Building; Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions; Standing Committees; Interim Meetings; Next Meeting of the Senate|§4-1-16. Indexes to Journals; Printing; Compensation for Preparing

The clerk of the Senate and House of Delegates shall each, at the end of every session of the Legislature, prepare indexes to their respective journals, and cause them to be printed and bound therewith. As a compensation therefor, the per diem of said clerks shall be extended ten days after the adjournment of the Legislature.