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WV Code § 59-1-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-15. Payments to Sheriffs and Clerks Out of State or County Treasury

There shall be paid out of the State Treasury to clerks and sheriffs for services rendered the state in a civil case such fees as would be chargeable for the like service of an individual, after such fees are duly certified to the Auditor. There shall be paid by the county court according to the provisions of article five, chapter sixty-two of this code, the following fees, after the same are duly certified to such court: To the sheriff or other officer, for an arrest for felony, $1, and for conveying any person charged with or convicted of felony, to jail, or from one jail to another, for each mile in going and returning, 5¢. The officer shall also be allowed for the support of the prisoner during the removal, and for assistance to make the arrest or effect the removal, such charge as may have been necessarily incurred by him to be shown by his own affidavit, if living, or, if he be dead, by the affidavit, of some credible person; and where he has assistance, by the affidavit also of each person employed by him or by such of them as may be alive and within the jurisdiction of the court, and if none of them be alive or within the jurisdiction of the court, the court may allow such claim upon his own affidavit. Such charge for assistance shall not exceed, in making an arrest, $1 per day for each person employed to assist him and in conveying a prisoner, not to exceed 5¢ per mile going and returning for each guard. The officer shall also be allowed for impaneling a jury in case of a felony, $1.
WV Code § 59-1-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-16. Amount of Allowance to Witnesses for Attendance; How and When Made

A person attending any court or other tribunal, under a summons or recognizance as a witness, shall receive not less than ten nor more than $20, to be fixed by the court or other tribunal, for each day's attendance and 15¢ per mile for each mile necessarily traveled to the place of attendance, and the same for returning, plus all necessary bridge, ferry and road tolls. On his oath, an entry of the sum he is entitled to, and for what, and by what party it is to be paid, shall be made. When the attendance is before either house or a committee of the Legislature, such entry shall be made by the clerk of such house or the chairman of such committee, and in other cases by the clerk of the court or other tribunal before which, or by the person before whom, the witness attended. A witness summoned or recognized to attend in several cases may have the entry made against any one of the parties by whom he is summoned, or for whom he is sworn as a witness, but no witness shall be allowed for his attendance in more than one case at the same time. But no compensation shall be allowed to a witness before a grand jury. This section shall not apply to witnesses before justices of the peace.
WV Code § 59-1-17 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-17. By Whom Witnesses Paid; on What Certificate; Clerk's Certificate as to Claims; Dispute as to Claims

The sum to which a witness is entitled shall be paid out of the treasury in any case of attendance before either house or a committee of the Legislature, and in any other case in which the attendance is for the state except where it is otherwise specially provided. In all other cases it shall be paid by the party for whom the summons issued. The payment shall be on the certificate of the person required by the preceding section to make the entry. The certificate shall express by letters, and not by figures, the separate amounts to which the witness is entitled for his attendance, traveling tolls and ferriages which he may have to pay, and the aggregate thereof. No clerk or other person authorized to make such entry or give such certificate shall become interested by purchase in any claim payable out of the public treasury, which by law he is authorized to certify. And it shall be the duty of such clerk, as soon as possible after the adjournment of any court, to make out a list of all entries made on behalf of witnesses attending for the state, whose fees are payable out of the treasury, and certify such list to the Auditor. Any dispute (before or after issuing the certificate) between the witness and the party against whom his claim is made, as to its justice or amount, may, when the case is in a court or before a justice, be determined by such court or justice.
WV Code § 59-1-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-18. To Whom Fees Charged; Services by Clerks and Sheriffs Without Fees

The fees mentioned in this article shall be chargeable to the person at whose instance the service is performed; except that the fees for entering and certifying the attendance of witnesses, and proceedings to compel payment for such attendance, shall be charged to the party for whom the witness attended, and except also as follows: No clerk shall charge for taking bond from, administering oaths to, or copying orders as to the appointment or qualification of any county, school or district officer, or for filing the bonds or oaths of any such officer, nor for making or copying orders as to county levies or grand juries and administering the necessary oaths. No sheriff shall charge for serving such or any other public orders nor for summoning and impaneling grand juries. No clerk or sheriff shall receive payment out of the treasury for any service rendered in case of the state, except where it is allowed by law.
WV Code § 59-1-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-19. Fee Books of Clerks

Every clerk of a court shall keep a fee book, wherein shall be entered the fees for every service performed by him and the fact of such fees having been paid, or of a bill having been made out therefor, whichever shall happen first. The fee books of a clerk shall be submitted to the inspection of commissioners appointed to examine the clerk's office.
WV Code § 59-1-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-20. Making Out Fee Bills; Motion to Quash Improper Fee Bill; Prepayment of Fees

No person shall be compelled to pay any fees before mentioned due to an officer, until there be produced to him a fee bill signed by the officer to whom the fees are due, expressing particulars for which such fees are charged. And no such fee bill shall be made out for any service not previously performed, except as hereinafter provided, unless a person desire to pay before such performance, in which case there shall be mentioned in such fee bill the nature of the service and the fact that it is to be performed. Nor shall an officer, for any service, make out a fee bill for more than is allowed therefor. Nor shall he for the same service, attempt to obtain payment a second time; nor ever make out a fee bill a second time, unless he indorse the fact that the fee bill made out is a second fee bill and swear that the former bill remains unpaid. For each item in which an officer shall violate this section, he shall forfeit $5 to any person prosecuting therefor, and the circuit court of the county in which an officer resides may on motion, after reasonable notice to him quash any fee bill made out by him contrary to law. But any officer may demand his fees in advance for any particular service required to be performed by him for any person not residing in his county, and if such fees be not paid or secured to him the officer may refuse to perform the service until they are paid or secured. In such cases, the fee bill shall state the nature of the service, and that it is to be performed.
WV Code § 59-1-21 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-21. Fee Bills of County Clerk

The clerk of the county court may make out tickets for his fees and place them in the hands of the sheriff, or other officer, to be collected and accounted for in the same manner that the fees of the clerk of the circuit court are collected and accounted for. The clerk of the county court shall be subject to the same penalties as the clerk of the circuit court for issuing fee bills wrongfully.
WV Code § 59-1-22 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-22. Duties of Successor of Deceased Clerk With Reference to Fee Books and Fee Bills

When a clerk dies, his successor shall charge in the fee books of the clerk's office such lawful fees as do not appear to have been charged therein for services performed by the decedent, and make out fee bills for such fees, and also for any fees charged on such books by the decedent for which he does not appear to have made out fee bills in his lifetime; except that such of those as appear to such successor to be for more than is allowed by law shall be reduced by him so far as, in his judgment, is necessary to make them legal.
WV Code § 59-1-23 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-23. Requisites and Effect of Fee Bills for Services of Deceased Clerk

The fee bills made out under the preceding section shall show on their face that they are for fees due the decedent, shall be signed by his successor, and shall have the same force and effect and shall be dealt with by all officers as if they were for fees accruing for services performed by such successor. All fee bills made out by such deceased clerk in his lifetime shall go to the custody of his successor and shall be dealt with by him and all officers as if they were fee bills made out by him for his own services.
WV Code § 59-1-24 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-24. Collection of Fees; Receipt

Every officer mentioned in this article shall, on or before July 1, in any year, deliver fee bills for all fees then due and unpaid, duly signed, to any sheriff or collector of the public taxes, who shall receive and endeavor to collect the same. A sheriff or collector may distrain therefor, or for any fee bills due himself such property of the person to whom the fees are charged as might be levied on under a writ of fieri facias against him except as hereinafter mentioned, and the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth sections of article nine, chapter eleven of this code shall apply to such fee bills in like manner as to taxes. Every such officer shall deliver to each person who pays him or from whose property he makes such fees, a receipt for all that is so paid or made.
WV Code § 59-1-25 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-25. Accounting for Fees

Every sheriff or collector to whom such fee bills are so delivered shall, on or before July 1, next after such delivery, account therefor with the officer entitled thereto by returning such as he may not have collected, with the indorsement thereon of the words "No property found," and by paying to such officer or his legal successor the amount of all not so returned. If he fail so to do, judgment may be obtained, on motion, against such sheriff or collector, and his sureties, and his and their personal representatives, for the amount with which such sheriff or collector is chargeable, and damages thereon, not exceeding fifteen percent per annum, from said first day of July until payment. Such judgment may be on motion in the circuit court of the county in which such sheriff or collector resides, and if the fees be due to the clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals, it may be in the circuit court of the county in which the seat of government may be. On such motion, any receipt for fees mentioned in the notice as signed by any person shall be deemed to be his signature unless an affidavit be filed denying it, and shall be prima facie evidence of the collection of all the fees mentioned therein, not returned as aforesaid.
WV Code § 59-1-26 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-26. Limitation on Distress or Suit for Collection of Fees

No fee, when a fee bill has not been issued, shall be collected by distress or suit after ten years from the time when the service was done that is charged for therein; or, if a fee bill has been issued, after ten years from the time when the last fee bill was issued.
WV Code § 59-1-27 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-27. Lodging Fee Bills and Certificates in Clerk's Office; Application of Costs to Payment Thereof; Prepayment or Security to Officer

An officer or witness to whom, for fees or attendance, anything is due that is taxed in the costs for which there is judgment or decree, may, within ten days after such judgment or decree, lodge in the clerk's office of the court wherein the same is rendered, his fee bills for such fees, or certificate for such attendance. The amount due each officer or witness, for what is so lodged, shall, within said ten days, be noted in the margin of the order or execution book, opposite the entry of the case. An officer or witness whose fees or certificate shall have been so noted shall be paid the same out of the costs, by the person against whom the judgment or decree is; and the right to such payment shall be valid against any assignee of the judgment or decree. When the clerk issues execution in such case, he shall indorse thereon how much of such costs is for each officer or witness whose fees or certificate may be so noted; and the officer collecting such costs shall pay the same accordingly to those entitled thereto. No officer mentioned in this chapter shall be obliged to perform services for any person out of his county, unless payment of his fees for such services be made or secured; nor to perform services for any person against whom he has had fee bills returned, which remain unsatisfied, unless he be secured payment of his fees for the services desired, or performance of such services be directed by a court.
WV Code § 59-1-28 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-28. Use and Disposition of Fees of Sheriffs, Clerks and Prosecuting Attorneys

Except for the funds designated in section twenty-eight-a of this article, all fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income and all other perquisites of whatever kind which by law may now or hereafter be collected or received as compensation for services by any clerk of the county commission, sheriff, clerk of the circuit court or of any court of limited jurisdiction, and prosecuting attorney shall be collected and received by such officer for the sole use of the treasury of the county in which he is an officer, and shall be held as public moneys belonging to the county fund, and shall be accounted for and paid over as such in the manner hereinafter provided. Nothing in this article shall be construed to require any county officer to pay into the county treasury any fees earned prior to May 21, 1915. Fees are held to be earned at the time the service is rendered and not at the time the matter is finally adjudicated.Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, all fees collected by a sheriff for service of all manner of process from magistrate court, in addition to such other funds as may be provided by the county commissions, shall be dedicated by the county commission to the office of sheriff for providing bailiff and service of process services for magistrate court.
WV Code § 59-1-29 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-29. Collection of Such Fees

Each clerk of the county commission, sheriff, clerk of the circuit court and prosecuting attorney shall have charge of and collect the fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income and all other perquisites of whatever kind which are now or may hereafter be allowed by law. Whenever there remain due the county and unpaid, for a period of more than six months, any fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income or any other perquisites of any kind, it shall be the duty of the county commission, or other tribunal in lieu thereof, by the prosecuting attorney, to proceed to the collection thereof in the circuit court or magistrate court, upon motion whereof the defendant and the sureties on his bond shall have at least twenty days' notice, or in any other manner provided for by law, and the amount so collected shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the general county fund.
WV Code § 59-1-30 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-30. Books of Account to Be Kept by Officers

Each of the officers named in the preceding section shall keep full and regular accounts, subject at all times to the examination of the county court, or tribunal in lieu thereof, the State Tax Commissioner or any individual, of all sums charged or collected by such officers on account of official fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income and all other perquisites of whatever kind, and such book of accounts shall be a part of the records of the respective offices herein named belonging to the county, and shall be transmitted by each county officer to his successor in office. The system of books and accounts to be kept by the officers herein named shall be prescribed by the State Tax Commissioner, ex officio inspector and supervisor of public offices.
WV Code § 59-1-31 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-31. Monthly Payments; How Credited; Report Required

Except for the funds designated in section twenty-eight-a of this article, each of the officers named in section twenty-nine of this article shall at the end of each month pay into the county treasury all fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, compensation, income and all other perquisites of whatever kind collected by his office during such month, which money shall be credited to the general county fund.
WV Code § 59-1-32 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-32. Reduction or Remission of Fees Prohibited; Penalty for Default in Payment

None of the officers named in section twenty-nine of this article shall be authorized to make any reduction, abatement or remission of any of the fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income or any other perquisites of whatever kind that it may be their duty to charge and collect. If any such officer shall wilfully make default in the payment of fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income or any other perquisites of whatever kind received and collected by him for a period longer than ten days after the end of the month during which the same were collected, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $500, and in the discretion of the court may be imprisoned not more than thirty days, and may be removed from his office, and he and the sureties on his bond shall be liable for any and all such moneys collected. If any such officer shall fail to pay such fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income or any other perquisites of whatever kind, to the treasurer of his county, and shall appropriate the same for his own use, or shall fail to pay over such fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income or any other perquisites of whatever kind, within thirty days after demand has been made upon him by the county court of his county, or tribunal in lieu thereof, or prosecuting attorney, he shall be guilty of embezzlement, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years, and shall forfeit his office; and if any deputy or assistant of any such officer shall appropriate to his own use any fees, costs, percentages, penalties, commissions, allowances, compensation, income or any other perquisites of whatever kind, or fail to pay the same within thirty days after demand has been made upon him by the county court, or tribunal created in lieu thereof, or prosecuting attorney of his county, he shall be guilty of embezzlement, and, upon conviction, be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years.
WV Code § 59-1-33 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-33. Deposit for Costs

When any action at law, suit in equity or other proceeding is instituted, the clerk of the court wherein the same is instituted shall require from the plaintiff a reasonable deposit of money for the services to be performed by himself or any other officer named in this article: Provided, however, That such clerk shall not be required to pay any part of such deposit to any officer (other than himself) for any services to be performed, unless he is directed so to do by the plaintiff at the time such deposit is made. The action, cause or proceeding wherein any deposit is made shall be credited therewith, and there shall be charged against such deposit all payments made by the clerk to any other such officer for services performed by the latter; and at the end of the month such clerk shall be required to pay into the county treasury such part of the deposit as has been earned by services performed by him or by any other officer whose services he has been directed by the plaintiff to pay. Upon the appearance of any defendant to any action at law (other than criminal cases), suit in equity or other proceeding, such defendant shall likewise be required to deposit with the clerk a reasonable amount, and the same shall be applied and accounted for in like manner as a deposit made by the plaintiff or petitioner. After demand by the clerk for deposit provided for in this section he shall not be required to perform any service until the demand is complied with, unless affidavit is filed as provided for by section one, article two of this chapter.