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WV Code § 59-1-35 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-35. Supervision by Chief Inspector of Public Offices

If, upon any examination made under authority of article nine, chapter six of this code, it is disclosed that the provisions of this article are not being complied with, the chief inspector and supervisor of public offices shall have authority to institute or cause to be instituted the necessary proceedings to enforce the provisions of this article. All books, records, blanks, forms, and forms for verifications, required to carry out the provisions of this article, shall be prescribed by the chief inspector. If any person shall swear falsely in any verification required under this article, he shall be guilty of false swearing, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided by law for such offense, and by forfeiture of his office.
WV Code § 59-1-36 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-36. Fees and Allowances for Poor Persons

If a person shall present to the proper collecting officer such person's written statement, certified by the chief executive officer of a duly chartered legal aid society, that he is pecuniarily unable to pay any of the fees and allowances mentioned in this article, he shall be forgiven and not required to pay such costs.
WV Code § 59-1-37 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-37. Deposits by County Officers in Noninterest Bearing or Interest Bearing Accounts; Payment to County General Fund; Annual Report

Except as to any tax receipts, which shall be deposited in accordance with section four, article six, chapter seven of this code, when any fee, cost, percentage, penalty, commission, allowance, bond, deposit, surety or other cash payment or sum is to be held by the sheriff, the prosecuting attorney, the county commission, an official of an agency or entity created by the county commission, the clerk of the county commission, the clerk of the circuit court or the assessor of any county under any provision of law or proper order of the circuit court, said officer shall deposit the same in an account or accounts which may, at his or her sole discretion, be an interest bearing account or accounts in secure and properly insured banks. All money collected, including cash and checks, shall be deposited intact on the first available business day: Provided, That the requirement for deposits on the first available business day shall not apply to the county assessor, nor shall it apply to any county officer if the amount to be deposited is less than $500. Any interest earned on such accounts, and not otherwise included in any refund, return or reimbursement of said fees, costs, penalties, commissions, allowances, bonds, deposits, sureties or other cash payments or sums, as directed by law or proper order of the circuit court, shall be paid into the county's general fund on a regular basis, but in no event less often than quarterly.All county officers shall report to the county commission by July 1, each year concerning his or her election to use interest bearing accounts, amounts currently on deposit and interest actually earned on such accounts.
WV Code § 59-1-38 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-38. County Officers to Issue Receipts of Collections

Any county officer, as described in section thirty-seven of this article, who receives a fee, cost, percentage, penalty, commission, allowance, bond, deposit, surety or other cash payment or sum shall issue a receipt to the payor thereof, in duplicate, on a form approved by the chief inspector, in accordance with the provisions of article nine, chapter six of this code. The county officer shall issue the original of such receipt to the payor and shall retain the copy. The chief inspector shall prescribe the minimum information to be included on such receipt forms.
WV Code § 59-1-39 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 1. Fees and Allowances|§59-1-39. Removal of County Officer

If any county officer shall fail to comply with the provisions of this article, the chief inspector may, in addition to any other remedies provided by law, seek the removal from office of such county officer, in accordance with provisions of section seven, article six, chapter six of this code.
WV Code § 59-2-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-3. New Bond

On motion of an obligor in such bond, after reasonable notice to the plaintiff, his attorney or agent, the court may order a new bond to be given, with sufficient security, conforming to all the requirements of the preceding section, in a penalty equal to the penalty of the former bond. If the bond required under this section be not given within such time as the court may prescribe, it may order the suit to be dismissed. If such new bond be given, the surety in the former one shall be relieved from any liability he might have incurred because of having executed or acknowledged the same. After the notice has been given to the plaintiff, his attorney or agent, no further proceedings shall be had in such cause, until such new bond is given with sufficient security, or a sufficient excuse is given for not executing the same.
WV Code § 59-2-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-4. Costs on Motions and Interlocutory Proceedings

Upon any motion (other than for a judgment for money), or upon any interlocutory order or proceeding, the court may give or refuse costs, at its discretion, unless it be otherwise provided. It may, when a demurrer is sustained to a plea in abatement, give judgment for the plaintiff for his full costs to the time of sustaining it; and when any other part of the proceedings is adjudged insufficient, it may order all costs occasioned by such insufficiency to be paid by him who committed the fault.
WV Code § 59-2-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-5. Payment of Costs on Granting of New Trial or Continuance

New trials may be granted upon the payment of costs, or with the costs to abide the event of the suit, as to the court may seem right. If the party who is to pay the costs of the former trial fail to pay the same at or before the next term after the new trial is granted, the court may, on the motion of the opposite party, set aside the order granting it and proceed to judgment on the verdict, or award execution for such costs, as may seem to it best. Where a case is continued at the costs of a party against the consent of the opposite party, the court may, in its discretion, award an execution for the costs of such continuance.
WV Code § 59-2-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-6. Where Recovery of Damages Less Than Fifty Dollars in Action Ex Delicto

In any personal action not on contract, which might be brought and prosecuted to judgment in a justice's court, if a verdict be found for the plaintiff, on an issue or otherwise, for less damages than $50, he shall not recover, in respect to such verdict, any costs, unless the court enter of record that the object of the action was to try a right besides the mere right to recover damages for the trespass or grievance in respect of which the action was brought, or that the said trespass or grievance was wilful or malicious.
WV Code § 59-2-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-7. Judgment Where Recovery Is Fifty Dollars or Less in Action Ex Contractu

In any personal action on contract instituted in a court of record, wherein it is ascertained that not more is due the plaintiff than $50, exclusive of interest, judgment shall be given for the defendant, unless the court enter of record that the matter in controversy was of greater value than fifty dollars, exclusive of interest; in which case it may give judgment for the plaintiff for what is ascertained to be due him with or without costs, as to it may seem right.
WV Code § 59-2-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-8. Costs on Final Judgment; Judgment For, or Discontinuance as To, Some of Defendants

Except where it is otherwise provided, the party for whom final judgment is given in any action, or in a motion for judgment for money, whether he be plaintiff or defendant, shall recover his costs against the opposite party; and when the action is against two or more, and there is judgment for or discontinuance as to some but not all of the defendants, those for whom there is judgment, or as to whom there is such discontinuance, shall recover their costs.
WV Code § 59-2-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-9. Costs When Original Papers or Record Replaced

For replacing the original papers in any cause, or the record in an appellate court, or supplying papers lost in cases decided, the costs and expenses shall be ascertained under the direction of the court, and adjudged against any party or parties in the cause, or divided among them as the court may, in its discretion, determine to be equitable; and so, also, when new pleadings are ordered.
WV Code § 59-2-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-10. Suit by One Person for Benefit of Another

When a suit is in the name of one person for the benefit of any other, if there be a judgment for the defendant's costs, it shall be against such other.
WV Code § 59-2-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-11. Laws as to Costs Not Deemed Penal; Discretion of Court of Equity as to Costs; Costs in Appellate Courts

The laws of costs shall not be interpreted as penal laws; nor shall anything in this article take away or abridge the discretion of a court of equity over the subject of costs, except that in every case in an appellate court costs shall be recovered in such court by the party substantially prevailing.
WV Code § 59-2-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-12. Costs When Case Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction

In any instance where a case, an appeal, writ of error or supersedeas shall be dismissed for want of jurisdiction, the court shall render judgment against the party who improperly invoked the jurisdiction of the court for all costs, whether accruing in the trial court or in any appellate court, which result from such wrongful invoking of the jurisdiction, provided they be otherwise properly chargeable against him
WV Code § 59-2-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-13. Who Is to Tax Costs

The clerk of a court wherein a party recovers costs shall tax the same.
WV Code § 59-2-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-14. Taxation of Statute Fees

He shall include in the costs to the prevailing party:(a) In any civil action, $10;(b) In civil actions in any court of limited jurisdiction, the same fees as are allowed in a circuit court for like actions.
WV Code § 59-2-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-15. General Taxation of Costs

The clerk shall tax in the costs all fees of officers, or other persons properly acting in lieu of officers, which the said party appears to be chargeable with, in the case wherein the recovery is, except that where, in any court on the same side, more than one copy of anything is obtained or taken out, in which may be included a copy of any pleading in a pending case, there shall be taxed only the fee for one copy of the same thing. He shall also tax 50¢ for each legal notice from such party therein, served in this state, and not otherwise taxed; the costs of executing any order of publication made in the case for such party and of any advertisement from him in the case, made in pursuance of law; and the allowances to his witnesses, and every further sum which the court may deem reasonable and direct to be taxed for depositions, taken in or out of the state, or for any other matter.
WV Code § 59-2-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-16. Taxation of Costs for Witnesses; Entry After Execution or Adjournment; Assignment or Transfer of Costs

The court may restrict the taxation in the costs for witnesses to so many as may be deemed just. No entry for a witness shall be made against a party recovering costs after execution has issued for such party; and in no case shall there be an entry of a witness for attendance at a term of court after the adjournment of such term. No assignment or transfer of any costs, expenses or fees payable out of the State Treasury shall be valid unless the same be in writing, indorsed on or annexed to the voucher issued therefor, signed by the person entitled thereto and duly acknowledged before an officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds or other writings, or attested by two witnesses who shall state their respective names and post- office addresses.
WV Code § 59-2-17 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-17. Fees of Prosecuting Attorney

The clerk shall include in the costs, for fees of the prosecuting attorney, the following:(a) In cases of misdemeanor, or an action upon a bond for a violation of the license laws, $15, of which $5 of that amount shall be deposited in the courthouse facilities improvement fund created by section six, article twenty-six, chapter twenty-nine of this code;(b) In a case of bastardy, $10;(c) In a suit or proceeding upon a forfeited recognizance upon behalf of the state, five percent upon the amount recovered and paid into the treasury;(d) In cases of felony, $35, of which $5 of that amount shall be deposited in the courthouse facilities improvement fund created by section six, article twenty-six, chapter twenty-nine of this code;(e) In any other case of the state, if a different fee is not prescribed, $10.Such fees shall be collected and accounted for as provided in article one of this chapter, but shall not in any case be paid out of the county or State Treasury.
WV Code § 59-2-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-18. Judgment or Decree on Behalf of State for Costs

In a case wherein there is judgment or decree on behalf of the state for costs, there shall be taxed in the costs the charge actually incurred to give any notice, although it be more than 50¢ and mileage, and the fees of attorneys and other officers for services, and allowances for attendance, as if such fees and allowances were payable out of the treasury. What is so taxed for fees of, or allowance to, any person shall be collected, paid over and accounted for according to law.
WV Code § 59-2-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 2. Costs Generally|§59-2-19. Premiums on Surety Company Bonds

The clerk or justice shall include in the costs of all actions, suits or proceedings, and the party entitled to recover costs may recover as part thereof, such sum as may have been paid by such party to a company, authorized under the laws of this state so to do, for executing or guaranteeing any bond, undertaking, or obligation therein, not exceeding, however, one third of one percent per annum on the amount of such bond or obligation.
WV Code § 59-3-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 3. Newspapers and Legal Advertisements|§59-3-4. Proof of Publication and Posting

(a) Any qualified newspaper publishing a legal advertisement incident to any type of judicial proceeding or any provision in a deed of trust or contract, or incident to any other case if required by the responsible party placing the legal advertisement for publication, shall make and furnish under oath an affidavit of publication of each legal advertisement published, showing the number of times it was published in the qualified newspaper, the dates of the publications and the cost of the publications. When posting of any legal advertisement is required in addition to publication of the legal advertisement in a qualified newspaper, the posting shall be done by the party responsible for causing the legal advertisement to be published. In any case where any legal advertisement is not required to be published in a qualified newspaper but is required to be posted, an affidavit of the type provided for in this section with respect to posting shall be made by the party who would have been responsible for causing the legal advertisement to be published in a qualified newspaper had it been required.(b) The affidavit of the publisher or proprietor of a qualified newspaper required by this section, together with a copy of the legal advertisement as published, constitutes prima facie evidence that the legal advertisement was published or published and posted as stated in the affidavit.
WV Code § 59-3-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 3. Newspapers and Legal Advertisements|§59-3-5. Mandamus to Compel Publication

Any citizen, taxpayer, or the publisher or proprietor of any qualified newspaper entitled by law to have any legal advertisement published in his qualified newspaper, which any county court or tribunal created in lieu thereof, Board of Education, governing body of any municipal corporation, or public officer, shall fail or refuse to make, may have a writ of mandamus to compel such publication, if a qualified newspaper is willing to accept the legal advertisement for publication at the rates prescribed in section three of this article.
WV Code § 59-3-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 3. Newspapers and Legal Advertisements|§59-3-6. Political Advertisements

In no case involving the publication of paid advertisements for candidates for political office shall the rate charged by any publisher or proprietor of any newspaper be more than the average rate received by him from private patrons for similar advertising composed of reading matter or photographs and requiring the same amount of space.
WV Code § 59-3-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 3. Newspapers and Legal Advertisements|§59-3-7. Criminal and Civil Penalties

(a) Any person who publishes a legal advertisement and who knowingly refused to file with the Secretary of State the affidavit for the fiscal year in which the legal advertisement was published, as required by the provisions of section three of this article, or to make and furnish the affidavit required by the provisions of section four of this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000.(b) Any person who shall knowingly file a false affidavit required by the provisions of this article shall be guilty of false swearing, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided for that offense.(c) Any qualified newspaper which shall knowingly charge any rates in excess of those specified in section three of this article, and any newspaper which shall knowingly charge any rates in excess of those specified in section six of this article, as the case may be, shall be liable to the person damaged thereby for treble damages.
WV Code § 59-3-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 3. Newspapers and Legal Advertisements|§59-3-8. Construction of Article; Repeal; Subsequent Legislation

This article is intended to standardize and make uniform certain areas of the law relating to newspapers, qualified newspapers, legal advertisements and publication of a newspaper or qualified newspaper, and to this end all other provisions in this code or elsewhere in law pertaining to such subjects shall be construed so as to conform to and be consistent with the pertinent provisions of this article. As to those provisions in this code or elsewhere in law which are so inconsistent with the provisions of this article as to preclude such construction, such other provisions, whether general or specific in character, are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency. No subsequent legislation shall be held to supersede or modify the provisions of this article except to the extent that such legislation shall do so specifically and expressly. The provisions of this act shall not affect the publication and/or posting of any legal advertisements commenced, in process or completed prior to the effective date of this act.
WV Code § 59-3-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements|Article 3. Newspapers and Legal Advertisements|§59-3-9. Severability

If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held unconstitutional or invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act, and to this end, the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.
WV Code § 60-1-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 60. State Control of Alcoholic Liquors|Article 1. General Provisions|§60-1-1. Purpose of Chapter; Declaration of Legislative Findings, Policy and Intent

The purpose of this chapter is to give effect to the mandate of the people expressed in the repeal of the state prohibition amendment; and it is hereby found by the Legislature and declared to be the public policy of this state to regulate and control the manufacture, sale, distribution, transportation, storage and consumption of alcoholic liquors and at the same time to assure the greatest degree of personal freedom consistent with the health, safety, welfare, peace and good morals of the people of this state. To these ends the police power of this state is pledged to the sound control and the temperate use of alcoholic liquors. In order to further promote and foster the hereinabove policy of the Legislature, the provisions of this chapter and of the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto shall be construed so as to accomplish and effectuate these stated purposes.
WV Code § 60-1-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 60. State Control of Alcoholic Liquors|Article 1. General Provisions|§60-1-2. Applicability of Chapter

A person shall not sell, possess for sale, transport, or distribute alcoholic liquors in this state except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.