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WV Code § 6-9A-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 9A. Open Governmental Proceedings|§6-9A-12. Duty of Attorney General, Secretary of State, Clerks of the County Commissions and City Clerks or Recorders

It is the duty of the Attorney General to compile the statutory and case law pertaining to this article and to prepare appropriate summaries and interpretations for the purpose of informing all public officials subject to this article of the requirements of this article. It is the duty of the Secretary of State, the clerks of the county commissions, joint clerks of the county commissions and circuit courts, if any, and the city clerks or recorders of the municipalities of the state to provide a copy of the material compiled by the Attorney General to all elected public officials within their respective jurisdictions. The clerks or recorders will make the material available to appointed public officials. Likewise, it is their respective duties to provide a copy or summary to any newly appointed or elected person within thirty days of the elected or appointed official taking the oath of office or an appointed person's start of term.
WV Code § 6-9B-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 9B. Open Governmental Finances|§6-9B-1. Legislative Findings

(a) The Legislature finds that taxpayers should be able to easily access the details of how the state is spending their tax dollars and what performance results are achieved for those expenditures. It is the intent of the Legislature, therefore, to direct the State Auditor to create and maintain a searchable financial transparency website detailing where, how much, and for what purpose taxpayer moneys in state government are expended.(b) It is also the intent of the Legislature that the searchable website be made compatible for future inclusion of counties or municipalities that desire to have their own searchable financial transparency website.
WV Code § 6-9B-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 9B. Open Governmental Finances|§6-9B-2. Definitions

 For the purpose of this article:(a) “Auditor” means the State Auditor of West Virginia, by himself or herself, or by any person appointed, designated or approved by the State Auditor to perform the service.(b) “Funding action or expenditure” includes details on the type of spending (grant, contract, appropriations, etc.). This includes, but is not limited to, tax exemptions, tax credits or any expenditure from any civil contingency or similar fund. Where possible, a hyperlink to the actual grants or contracts shall be provided.(c) “Funding source” means the state account from which the funding action or expenditure is appropriated.(d) “Governmental Agency” means a state department, office, board, commission, bureau, division, institution or institution of higher education under the direction and control of the Executive Branch, Legislative Branch or Judicial Branch of state government. This includes individual state agencies and programs, elected offices, as well as those programs and activities that cross agency lines. (e) “Recipients” means any individual, person, corporation, association, union, limited liability corporation, limited liability partnership, legal business entity including nonprofit organizations, grantee, contractor or any county, municipal or other local government entity that directly receives the benefit of a funding action or expenditure.(f) “Searchable financial transparency website” means a website that allows the public at no cost to search and aggregate information regarding the state’s budget and spending.
WV Code § 6-9B-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 9B. Open Governmental Finances|§6-9B-3. Searchable Financial Transparency Website Created

No later than July 1, 2018, the State Auditor shall develop and make publicly available a searchable financial transparency website containing the information specified in §6-9B-4 of this code.
WV Code § 6-9B-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 9B. Open Governmental Finances|§6-9B-4. Contents of the Searchable Website

(a) The Auditor shall include as part of the searchable financial transparency website the following content for a given fiscal year and the 3 immediately preceding fiscal years:(1) The name and the address, principal location or residence of the recipients of a given funding action or expenditure: Provided, That all federal and state laws and regulations and rules regarding the confidentiality of information and privacy apply;(2) The amount of funds expended in a given funding action or expenditure;(3) The governmental agency making a given funding action or expenditure;(4) The funding source a given funding action or expenditure;(5) The budget program or activity related to a given funding action or expenditure; and(6) Additional information as to the funding action or expenditure the Auditor deems valuable for the public.(b) The searchable financial transparency website shall be updated periodically as new data becomes available. All governmental agencies shall provide to the Auditor, in a format specified by the Auditor, all data that is required to be included in the searchable financial database website no later than 30 days after the data becomes available to the agency. The Auditor shall provide guidance and specifications to governmental agencies to promote compliance with this section.(c) The Auditor shall make publicly known those governmental agencies that have failed to comply with the requirements of this article.
WV Code § 6-10-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 10. Employment of Wife by State Official or Employee|§6-10-1. Employment of Wife at Public Expense Prohibited

The employment of his wife at public expense by any official or employee of the state is expressly prohibited.
WV Code § 6-11-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 11. Leave of Absence for Public Officers Entering Military Service|§6-11-1. Persons Entitled to Leave

Any person holding any office or position of public trust, responsibility or service, elective or appointive, in the government of this state or in any county, municipality or any other unit or combined unit of government therein, who may enter the military, naval, marine corps or coast guard service of the United States of America, may obtain a leave of absence from such office or position and, upon the completion of and discharge from any of such armed services, shall have the right to reassume for the unexpired or remaining term thereof, the office or position held by such person at the time of entering any of such armed services. The officer, court, tribunal, board or person having the power to make an original appointment to such office or position, or to make an appointment to fill a vacancy therein, shall, upon request, grant such leave of absence. The reassumption of any office or position as herein provided shall be without any prejudice whatsoever to the status, merit rating or standing of the holder thereof by reason of his absence therefrom while in the aforesaid armed services of the United States.
WV Code § 6-11-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 11. Leave of Absence for Public Officers Entering Military Service|§6-11-2. Period of Replacement Appointment

Whenever the holder of any such public office or position enters any of the services mentioned in section one hereof and another is named to perform the duties of said person's office or position, such other person shall not be named for a period longer than the period served by the holder of such office in the aforesaid armed services of the United States. The holder of any executive office other than Governor mentioned in section 1 of article VII of the Constitution of this state shall have the right to name the person who shall perform the duties of his office, and the person so named by such executive officer shall take over and perform all the duties of the office and may exercise all the power and authority of such executive office, in any manner pertaining thereto, and shall receive the salary of such executive officer. Such person shall be known as an "acting" officer.
WV Code § 6-11-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 11. Leave of Absence for Public Officers Entering Military Service|§6-11-3. Article Not to Affect Terms or Authorize Compensation to Persons Not Performing Duties

This article shall not be construed:(a) As any attempt to enlarge or to extend the length of term of any such public office or position or to create a definite term where no definite term with respect to such office or position has heretofore existed.(b) As providing that the salary or wages payable to any person holding any such public office or position and performing the duties thereof shall be paid to such person when not performing said duties because of such services in the Armed Forces of the United States.
WV Code § 6-11-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 11. Leave of Absence for Public Officers Entering Military Service|§6-11-4. Provisions of Article Retroactive

The provisions of this article shall be retroactive as to all such persons who have entered the armed services of the United States since July one, 1940.
WV Code § 6-12-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 12. General Liability, Bodily Injury and Property Damage Insurance by State and Local Governments|§6-12-1. General Liability Insurance for Proprietary Functions; Bodily Injury and Property Damage Motor Vehicle Insurance at Public Expense; Contractors to Provide Like Insurance

Officers, boards, commissions or agencies of the state or of any county, municipality or any other unit of local or state government, authorized to spend public funds, or to direct the expenditure of public funds, may provide at public expense for liability insurance against risks engendered in their proprietary functions, bodily injury liability and property damage liability insurance against the negligence of the drivers of motor vehicles operated by or for such officers, boards, commissions and agencies in such amount as such officers, boards, commissions and agencies may specify, and any such officer, board, commission or agency having the authority to contract for the use in the service of such officer, board, commission or agency, of any motor vehicle, may require the contractor to provide like insurance at his own expense in such amount as such officer, board, commission or agency may specify.
WV Code § 6-12-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 12. General Liability, Bodily Injury and Property Damage Insurance by State and Local Governments|§6-12-2. Policy May Authorize Action Against Insurance Company With or Without Joining Driver as Defendant

Any insurance policy obtained in pursuance of the provisions of section one of this article may, by agreement between the insurance company issuing the policy and the officer, board, commission or agency applying for such insurance, contain a provision authorizing an action on such policy to be maintained against the insurance company issuing the policy by or in the name of any person sustaining bodily injury or property damage, either with or without joining the driver of such motor vehicle as a party defendant, or in the name of the personal representative of a deceased person, the proximate cause of whose death was the negligence of the driver. Such provision shall be valid and enforceable if set forth in the body of the policy or in a rider attached to the policy as a part thereof.
WV Code § 6-12-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 12. General Liability, Bodily Injury and Property Damage Insurance by State and Local Governments|§6-12-3. Article Not to Create New Right of Action

This article shall not be so construed as to authorize a right of action against any officer, board, commission or agency where no right of action has heretofore existed.
WV Code § 6-13-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 13. Preference Rating of Veterans on Written Examination on Nonpartisan Merit Basis|§6-13-1. Preference Rating of Veterans on Written Examinations for Positions in State Departments Filled Under Nonpartisan Merit System

For positions in any agency as defined in section four, article one, chapter five-f of this code or any other political subdivision of this state in which positions are filled under civil service or any job classification system, a preference of five points in addition to the regular numerical score received on examination shall be awarded to all veterans having qualified for appointment by making a minimum passing grade; and to all veterans awarded the purple heart, or having a compensable service-connected disability, as established by any proper veterans' bureau or department of the federal government, an additional five points shall be allowed.For the purpose of this article, a person is defined as a "veteran" if he or she fulfills the requirements of one of the following subsections:(a) Served on active duty anytime between December 7, 1941, and July 1, 1955. However, any person who was a reservist called to active duty between February 1, 1955, and October 14, 1976, must meet condition (b) stated below;(b) Served on active duty anytime between July 2, 1955, and October 14, 1976, or a reservist called to active duty between February 1, 1955, and October 14, 1976, and who served for more than one hundred eighty days;(c) Entered on active duty between October 15, 1976, and September 7, 1980, or a reservist who entered on active duty between October 15, 1976, and October 13, 1982, and received a campaign badge or expeditionary medal or is a disabled veteran; or(d) Enlisted in the Armed Forces after September 7, 1980, or entered active duty other than by enlistment on or after October 14, 1982; and(1) Completed twenty-four months of continuous active duty or the full period called or ordered to active duty, or was discharged under 10 U.S.C. 1171, or for hardship under 10 U.S.C. 1173, and received or was entitled to receive a campaign badge or expeditionary medal; or(2) Is a disabled veteran.To receive veteran preference, separation from active duty must have been under honorable conditions. This includes honorable and general discharges. A clemency discharge does not meet the requirements of the Veteran Preference Act. Active duty for training in the military reserve and National Guard programs is not considered active duty for purposes of veteran preference.These awards shall be made for the benefit and preference in appointment of all veterans who have heretofore or who shall hereafter take examinations, but shall not operate to the detriment of any person heretofore appointed to a position in a department or agency.
WV Code § 6-14-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 14. Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act|§6-14-1. Definitions

As used in this article:(a) "Public security" means a bond, note, certificate of indebtedness or other obligation for the payment of money issued by this state or by any of its departments, agencies, boards, commissions or other instrumentalities or by any of its public corporations, political subdivisions, municipal corporations or other governmental units.(b) "Instrument of payment" means a check, draft, warrant or order for the payment, delivery or transfer of funds.(c) "Authorized officer" means any official of this state or of any of its departments, agencies, boards, commissions or other instrumentalities or of any of its public corporations, political subdivisions, municipal corporations or other governmental units whose signature to a public security or instrument of payment is required or permitted.(d) "Facsimile signature" means a reproduction by engraving, imprinting, stamping or other means of the manual signature of an authorized officer.
WV Code § 6-14-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 14. Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act|§6-14-2. Facsimile Signature; Use; Legal Effect

Any authorized officer, after filing with the Secretary of State his manual signature certified by under oath, may execute or cause to be executed with a facsimile signature in lieu of his manual signature:(a) Any public security, provided that at least one signature required or permitted to be placed thereon shall be manually subscribed. If a public security is required to be manually signed by a trustee, issuing agent, fiscal agent, registrar, or other agent or custodian, the signature of any or all authorized officers may be executed by facsimile; and(b) Any instrument of payment.Upon compliance with this article by the authorized officer, his facsimile signature shall have the same legal effect as his manual signature.
WV Code § 6-14-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 14. Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act|§6-14-3. Facsimile Seal; Use; Legal Effect

When the seal of this state or of any of its departments, agencies, boards, commissions or other instrumentalities or of any of its public corporations, political subdivisions, municipal corporations or other governmental units is required in the execution of a public security or instrument of payment, the authorized officer may cause the seal to be printed, engraved, stamped or otherwise placed in facsimile thereon. The facsimile seal shall have the same legal effect as the impression of the seal.
WV Code § 6-14-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 14. Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act|§6-14-4. Use With Intent to Defraud; Penalty

Any person who with intent to defraud uses on a public security or an instrument of payment:(a) A facsimile signature of any authorized officer or any reproduction of such facsimile signature, or(b) Any facsimile seal of this state or of any of its departments, agencies, boards, commissions or other instrumentalities or of any of its public corporations, political subdivisions, municipal corporations or other governmental units, or any reproduction of such facsimile seal is guilty of a felony and, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten years.
WV Code § 6-14-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 14. Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act|§6-14-5. Construction

This article shall be so construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.
WV Code § 6-14-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 14. Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act|§6-14-6. Citation

This article may be known and cited as the "Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act."
WV Code § 6-14-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 14. Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act|§6-14-7. Severability Provision

If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this article which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application and to that end the provisions of this article are severable.
WV Code § 6-14-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 14. Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act|§6-14-8. Inconsistent Articles Repealed

All articles and parts of articles inconsistent with the provisions of this article are, to the extent of such inconsistency only, hereby repealed.
WV Code § 6A-1-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6A. Executive and Judicial Succession|Article 1. Executive and Judicial Succession|§6A-1-1. Short Title

This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Emergency Interim Executive and Judicial Succession Act."
WV Code § 6A-1-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6A. Executive and Judicial Succession|Article 1. Executive and Judicial Succession|§6A-1-2. Statement of Policy

Because of the existing possibility of attack upon the United States of unprecedented size and destructiveness, and in order, in the event of such an attack, to assure continuity of government through legally constituted leadership, authority and responsibility in offices of the government of the state and its political subdivisions; to provide for the effective operation of government during such an emergency; and to facilitate the early resumption of functions temporarily suspended, it is found and declared to be necessary to provide for additional officers who can exercise the powers and discharge the duties of Governor; to provide for emergency interim succession to governmental offices of this state and its political subdivisions in the event of the incumbents thereof and their deputies, assistants or other subordinate officers authorized, pursuant to law, to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of such offices hereinafter referred to as deputies, assistants, or otherwise, are unavailable to perform the duties and functions of such offices; and to provide for special emergency judges who can exercise the powers and discharge the duties of judicial offices in the event regular judges are unavailable.
WV Code § 6A-1-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6A. Executive and Judicial Succession|Article 1. Executive and Judicial Succession|§6A-1-3. Definitions

Unless otherwise clearly required by the context, as used in this article:(a) "Unavailable" means either that a vacancy in office exists and there is no deputy authorized to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office, or that the lawful incumbent of the office, including any deputy exercising the powers and discharging the duties of an office because of a vacancy and his duly authorized deputy, are absent or unable to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office.(b) "Emergency interim successor" means a person designated pursuant to this article, in the event the officer is unavailable, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office until a successor is appointed or elected and qualified as may be provided by the Constitution, statutes, charters and ordinances or until the lawful incumbent is able to resume the exercise of the powers and discharge the duties of the office.(c) "Office" includes all state and local offices, the powers and duties of which are defined by the Constitution, statutes, charters, and ordinances, except the office of Governor, and except those in the Legislature and the judiciary.(d) "Attack" means any attack or series of attacks by an enemy of the United States causing, or which may cause, substantial damages or injury to civilian property or persons in the United States in any manner by sabotage or by the use of bombs, missiles, shellfire, or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological, or biological means or other weapons or processes.(e) "Political subdivision" includes counties, cities, towns, districts, authorities, and other public corporations and entities, whether organized and existing under charter or general law.