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WV Code § 51-4-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 4. General Provisions Relating to Clerks of Courts|§51-4-4. Removal of Records or Papers Out of County; Penalty

None of the records or papers of a court shall be removed by the clerk, nor allowed by him or by the court to be removed, out of the county wherein the clerk's office is kept, except on an occasion of invasion or insurrection, actual or threatened, when, in the opinion of the court, or, in a very sudden case, of the clerk, the same will be endangered, after which they shall be returned as soon as the danger ceases; and except in such other cases as are specifically provided by law, or by general order of the court permitting the removal or transfer thereof to counties within his circuit; or to another circuit in cases being heard by a visiting or special judge. In such cases of removal or transfer the clerk of the court from which such papers and records are removed shall take and preserve an appropriate written receipt therefor. Any clerk violating this section shall forfeit $600. However, this section shall not be construed as to prevent a judge of a circuit court from taking files of papers from any county of his circuit, or directing the clerk to send such files to him when he needs to use the same.
WV Code § 51-4-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 4. General Provisions Relating to Clerks of Courts|§51-4-5. Authority to Administer Oath

Any clerk of a court, or his deputy, may administer an oath in any case wherein an affidavit is necessary or proper.
WV Code § 51-4-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 4. General Provisions Relating to Clerks of Courts|§51-4-6. Preparation of Bonds

Every clerk shall prepare in a proper manner any bond to be taken by or given before him or his court or the judge thereof in vacation.
WV Code § 51-4-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 4. General Provisions Relating to Clerks of Courts|§51-4-7. Transmission of Copies of Certain Records to County Clerk; Recordation; Penalty

The clerk of the court wherein there is any partition of, or assignment of dower in, or any recovery of, land under any judgment, decree or order, shall transmit, to the clerk of the county court of each county wherein such land is, a copy of such judgment, decree or order, and of the order confirming the same, together with such description of the land as may appear in the papers of the cause, and the report of such partition or assignment. Such clerk shall record the same in his deed book, and index it in the name of the person who had the land before, and also in the name of the person who became entitled under such partition, assignment or recovery. Every such record shall be as effectual, in cases of partition, to convey the legal title of such land to the person to whom the same is assigned by the report of the commissioners and decree of the court as deeds of partition would be if duly made by the parties. A clerk failing to perform any duty required of him by this section shall forfeit not less than twenty nor more than $100.
WV Code § 51-4-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 4. General Provisions Relating to Clerks of Courts|§51-4-10. Duplicate Certificate of Allowance; Penalty

There shall be no duplicate certificate of any allowance of a court to be paid out of the treasury, unless the court, upon proof, by the oath of the party or otherwise, of the loss or destruction of the original certificate, shall order a duplicate, which shall show on its face that it is a duplicate issued by order of the court. Any clerk who shall issue a duplicate otherwise shall forfeit $100.
WV Code § 51-4-12a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 4. General Provisions Relating to Clerks of Courts|§51-4-12a. Free Recordation of Discharges, Other Than Dishonorable, and Certificates of Satisfactory Service; Free Issuance to Veterans and Dependents of Copies of Certain Records

A discharge, other than dishonorable, from the Armed Forces of the United States, and a certificate of satisfactory service in said Armed Forces held by any and all persons, shall be recorded by a county clerk in a special record book, free of any and all fees or costs therefor. This book shall be kept on file in the office of the clerk of the county court of the county in which the person holding such discharge or certificate resides: Provided, That upon application to the vital statistics department, or any other agency authorized to issue birth certificates in this state, the original discharge or certificate, or a certified copy from the clerk's office, where same is recorded, shall be taken as proof of the date of birth of the veteran for all purposes, and no other or further proof shall be required.The county clerk of any county shall furnish copies of records of a discharge, other than dishonorable, certificate of satisfactory service, marriage, divorce, adoption, birth or death, which he may have in his possession, without fee, to veterans of any war, soldiers in service, or the dependents of such veterans or soldiers, when these records are necessary to obtain benefits from the federal or state governments.
WV Code § 51-5-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 5. Commissioners in Chancery and for Stating Accounts|§51-5-1. Appointment, Removal and Powers of Commissioners

Each circuit court and every other court of record now existing, or which may hereafter be established, having jurisdiction to try or hear suits in chancery or actions at law, may from time to time appoint not more than four commissioners in chancery or for stating accounts, except that the circuit court of any county the population of which exceeds thirty thousand and is less than fifty thousand may appoint not more than six of such commissioners, and that the circuit court of any county the population of which exceeds fifty thousand may appoint not more than eight of such commissioners, who shall be removable at its pleasure, with power to take depositions and to swear and examine witnesses and to certify their testimony. The judge of any court empowered to appoint commissioners in chancery or for stating accounts may in vacation appoint such commissioners with as much effect as if appointed by the court, and they shall have like powers.
WV Code § 51-5-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 5. Commissioners in Chancery and for Stating Accounts|§51-5-2. Oath of Commissioner

Every such commissioner, before proceeding to act, shall take the oath prescribed by section 5, article IV of the Constitution of this state.
WV Code § 51-6-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-1. Appointment; Term; Duties; Authority

Each circuit court, and every other court of record having jurisdiction to try or hear suits in chancery or actions at law, may appoint a general receiver of the court, who shall hold his office at its pleasure, and whose duty it shall be, unless it be otherwise specially ordered, to receive, take charge of, and invest in such stock or other security as the court may order, and in the manner required by such order, all moneys paid into court, or into bank or other place of deposit, under any judgment, order or decree of such court, and standing subject to its orders; and also to pay out or dispose of the same as the court may order or decree; and to this end the general receiver shall have authority to check for, receive and give acquittances for, all such moneys.
WV Code § 51-6-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-2. Powers and Duties as to Securities

The certificates of stock or other securities in which, under the orders of the court, such investments may be made, shall be taken in the name of the general receiver, as such, and be kept by him unless otherwise specially ordered; and he shall have the power to sell, transfer or collect the same, when ordered by the court to do so, but not otherwise; and in case of his death, resignation or removal, his successor, or any person specially appointed by the court for that purpose, shall have like power.
WV Code § 51-6-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-3. Dividends and Interest

The general receiver shall collect the dividends and interest on all certificates of stock or other securities in which investments have been or may be made under the orders or decrees of his court, or under the provisions of this article, when and as often as the same may become due and payable thereon, and shall invest or dispose of the same as the court shall order or decree.
WV Code § 51-6-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-4. Interest on Money Loaned

The interest on all loans made to individuals under an order of court shall become due and payable on January 1, in each year, until the principal is paid; and unless the interest be paid at the time it becomes due and payable compound interest shall be charged thereon to the borrower from such time until payment thereof is made.
WV Code § 51-6-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-5. Receiver's Liability for Funds and Interest Thereon

He shall be liable for all moneys which may come into his hands as general receiver; and if at any time he shall fail to invest any sum of money, as required by the preceding sections, for the space of sixty days after the same shall be, or ought to have been, received by him or shall fail to pay out any sum of money, when required by the court to pay the same, for the space of sixty days after it shall come into his hands for the purpose of such payment, he shall be charged with interest thereon from the day when such money was, or ought to have been, received by him until such investment or payment is made, unless, upon good cause shown, the court shall order otherwise.
WV Code § 51-6-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-6. Receiver's Bond

Said general receiver shall receive or accept no money or securities until he shall have given bond with good security approved by the court or the judge thereof in vacation, conditioned as provided for official bonds, and in such penalty as the said court or judge may prescribe, but sufficient at least to cover the probable amount of money and securities that may come into his possession. If at any time it appears to the said court or judge that the penalty of the bond or bonds is not sufficient to cover the probable amount of money and securities that may come into the possession of the general receiver, or that for any reason, new or additional bonds should be given by him the said court or the judge thereof in vacation shall require the said general receiver to immediately give new or additional bonds in such penalty as the said court or judge may prescribe. The said general receiver shall not receive or accept any money or securities in excess of the penalty of the bonds given by him as aforesaid and remaining in full force and virtue.If the said general receiver shall give bond as aforesaid with an indemnity or surety company having an unrevoked license or permit from the Insurance Commissioner authorizing it to engage or continue in business in this state, as surety thereon, the premiums for effecting or continuing such bond shall be treated as a cost or expense of administering the said receivership estate, and paid by the said general receiver out of the funds in his hands as ordered by the said court or judge.In the event the said general receiver shall give any bond as aforesaid with a surety who is not an indemnity or surety company as aforesaid, he shall give a new bond at least once in every two years after his appointment, and at the time of giving such new bond the surety or sureties thereon shall appear before the said court or judge and be examined under oath in order that the said court or judge may determine the sufficiency of the surety on the said bond.
WV Code § 51-6-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-7. Receiver's Compensation

He shall receive as compensation for his services such percent of the amount received and invested or paid out by him in each case as the court may direct.
WV Code § 51-6-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-8. Accounts and Reports

He shall keep an accurate and itemized account of all moneys received, invested and paid out by him showing the respective amounts to the credit of each case in the court, and designated in the items, the judgments, orders or decrees of the court under which the respective sums have been received, invested or paid out. On the first day of each regular term of the court, he shall report to such court a general statement showing the balance to the credit of each case in the court in which money has been received by him the manner in which it is invested, the amounts received, invested or paid out since his last report, and the whole amount then invested and subject to the future order of the court; and he shall, at any time when required by the court so to do, furnish a statement of the amount subject to the order of the court in any case pending therein.
WV Code § 51-6-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-9. Failure to Keep Accounts or Make Statements

If he shall fail to keep the account, or to make out and return the statements required by the next preceding section of this article, he shall be subject to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, to be imposed by the court at its discretion; and the condition of his official bond shall be taken and held to embrace the liability of himself and his sureties for any such fine.
WV Code § 51-6-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-10. Settlement of Accounts of General Receiver and Others Who Hold Money Subject to Order of Court; Examination of Bonds and Securities

Each circuit court, and every other court which has appointed a general receiver, shall, at its first regular term after January 1, in each year, by an order entered of record, require one of its commissioners in chancery, other than the commissioner who may have been appointed general receiver thereof, to state and settle the accounts of the general receiver of such court, and, unless otherwise provided, of all persons who have money subject to the future order of the court, and which then remains undisbursed. The clerk of the court shall furnish to such commissioner a copy of the order so made, with a list appended thereto exhibiting the names of such receiver and persons. The commissioner shall summon such receiver and persons, or the personal representatives of such of them as are dead, before him and audit, state and settle their accounts, and report the same to the circuit court at its next term after such order has been made. He shall also cause the bond of the receiver of the court, and the bonds or other securities given for any money loaned under the order of the court, to be produced before him and shall ascertain if the obligors in such bonds, or if such other securities, are sufficient, and report thereon to the court at the times before mentioned.
WV Code § 51-6-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-11. Examination of Reports; Recordation; New Bond or Additional Security; Effect

The court shall examine the reports required by the preceding section, when the same are made to it, and, if satisfied of the correctness thereof, shall order them, by indorsement thereon, to be recorded. If it appear from the report of the commissioner that any bond of a receiver, or any bond or other security given by any person to whom money has been loaned under its order, is insufficient, the court shall order additional security to be given, or another bond to be executed before it, in such penalty as may seem right, and with sufficient sureties. But the execution of such new bond shall not discharge the sureties in any prior bond from their liability for acts of the principal obligor done previously to the execution of such new bond.
WV Code § 51-6-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-12. "Receivers' Book"; Recordation of Reports; Inspection

The clerk of each circuit court shall procure, at the expense of his county, a book to be called the "receivers' book," wherein he shall record such reports, when approved by the court; and he shall make an index thereto, showing the style of the suit or other proceeding in which money has been paid as aforesaid, and the page where any report respecting the same has been recorded. Such book shall be open to the examination of any person interested, or his counsel, without the payment of any fee therefor.
WV Code § 51-6-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-13. Charges of Clerks and Commissioners

For recording the reports required by section ten of this article the clerks may charge, in each case mentioned in such report, a fee of 50¢, to be paid out of the fund in court; and such commissioners may charge for the reports made under said section the same fees allowed by law to commissioners in chancery for other reports, to be paid out of the funds in court, and charged to the respective cases therein, in such proportion as the court shall judge right.
WV Code § 51-6-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 6. General Receivers|§51-6-14. Application of Unclaimed Funds in Hands of General Receiver of Circuit Court

Whenever it shall appear to any circuit court that any fund in its charge and in the hands of its general receiver, for a period of at least twenty years, will, in all probability never be claimed by anyone entitled thereto, the court may order such fund applied to any loss of or shrinkage in the investments of such general receiver due to economic condition, and may release such general receiver from any further liability on account of such fund so in his hands.But before entering any such order, the court shall cause a notice of such intention to be given by the clerk of said court by publication thereof as a Class II legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty- nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be said county. If no claimant shall appear and establish a right to said fund within one year from the date of the last publication thereof, the court may take said facts to have been fully established, and shall so apply said fund.
WV Code § 51-7-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 7. Official Reporters|§51-7-1. Appointment; Oath; Attendance at Grand Jury Sessions

The circuit courts of the several judicial circuits in this state, or the judges thereof in vacation, or the judges of any intermediate, criminal or common pleas court, are hereby empowered and authorized to appoint competent shorthand reporters to take and report, under such regulations as such judges, or any of them, may prescribe, the proceedings had and the testimony given in any case, either civil or criminal, or in any other proceeding had in such court, including the taking of testimony before the grand jury of such court for the use of the prosecuting attorney of the county, and in proceedings before the judge of such court in vacation, and otherwise to aid the judge in the performance of his official duties.The appointment of such reporter may be made by the judge of such court by an order entered of record, and the reporter so appointed shall be designated the "official reporter" of the court for which he shall be appointed.Such reporter, when appointed, shall be qualified under oath, and shall be authorized to attend the sessions of the grand jury, but shall retire from such session when directed by the foreman, or a majority of the grand jury, or when ordered to do so by the court, and when the grand jury desires to consult or vote upon any matters before them.
WV Code § 51-7-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 7. Official Reporters|§51-7-2. Duty to Take Shorthand Notes

It shall be the duty of such reporter to take full shorthand notes of the testimony and proceedings in which his services may be required, and such notes shall be deemed and held to be official and the best authority in any matter in dispute.
WV Code § 51-7-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 7. Official Reporters|§51-7-3. Compensation for Attending Court and Taking Notes

The official reporter shall receive, for his or her services and expenses in attending the court or judge and in taking the notes provided for in section two of this article, such salary or other compensation as the court or judge, in accordance with the rules of the Supreme Court of Appeals, may allow. If such salary be allowed, it shall be paid at least twice per month, out of the State Treasury. If no such salary be allowed, such other compensation and expenses as may be allowed in civil cases shall be certified by the court or judge to the Auditor and the same shall be paid out of the State Treasury. Such other compensation and expenses in felony and, misdemeanor cases shall be certified to the Auditor and paid out of the State Treasury. The salary or other compensation provided for in this section shall not be deemed to include the making of typewritten transcripts as provided for in section four of this article.
WV Code § 51-7-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 51. Courts and Their Officers|Article 7. Official Reporters|§51-7-5. Salary in Lieu of All Other Compensation

If neither of the methods of compensation provided for in section three of this article be adopted, a salary may be allowed in lieu of all other compensation, which shall be paid at least twice per month, out of the State Treasury, in such proportions as the court or judge may fix in accordance with the rules of the Supreme Court of Appeals. All fees for services rendered by the official reporter in the discharge of his or her duties as such, when he or she is allowed a salary under the provisions of this section, may be collected, and shall, when collected by the sheriff or official reporter, be paid into the State Treasury; and it shall be the duty of such reporter to make out, sign and deliver to the sheriff a fee bill in every case, civil or criminal, giving the style thereof and the amount due, and from whom, which amount may be collected or levied for by the sheriff, and such fee bill shall have the force and effect of an execution when levied. An official reporter compensated under the provisions of this section shall collect the fees mentioned in section four of this article for any transcript of his or her shorthand notes of the testimony or proceedings furnished by him or her to any party, and shall pay the same over to the sheriff of the county in which the services were performed, to be by him or her accounted for and paid into the State Treasury.