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WV Code § 6-5-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-2. Continuance Until Successor Qualified

The term of every officer shall continue (unless the office be vacated by death, resignation, removal from office, or otherwise) until his successor is elected or appointed, and shall have qualified.
WV Code § 6-5-2a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-2a. Appointments to State Boards, Agencies, Commissions and Committees Affected by Changes in Congressional Districts

Any amendment of section three, article two, chapter one of this the code relating to congressional districts shall not affect the qualification or tenure of office of any person who was appointed a member of any state board, agency, commission or committee prior to the effective date of such amendment; however, all appointments made after the effective date of such amendment to any state board, agency, commission or committee on which membership is affected by congressional district requirements shall be made in accordance with the congressional district arrangement provided by said amendment.If the total number of members prescribed by law on any board, agency, commission or committee, on which membership is affected by congressional district requirements, shall exceed the members from congressional districts, the excess members shall be appointed at large, unless otherwise provided for in this code.
WV Code § 6-5-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-3. Validity of Acts of Officers De Facto

All judgments given and all acts done by any person, by authority or color of any office, or the deputation thereof, under the restored government of Virginia or of this state, before his removal therefrom, shall be valid, though it afterwards may have been or may be decided or adjudged that he was not lawfully elected or appointed, or was disqualified to hold the office, or that the same had been forfeited or vacated.
WV Code § 6-5-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-4. Residence of Officers

The Governor, Secretary of State, state superintendent of free schools, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General and Commissioner of Agriculture, shall reside at the seat of government during their term of office, and keep there the public records, books and papers pertaining to their respective offices. Every judge of a circuit court shall, during his continuance in office, reside in the circuit for which he was chosen. Every county and district officer, except the prosecuting attorney, shall, during his continuance in office, reside in the county or district for which he was elected. And the removal by any such officer from the state, circuit, county or district for which he was elected or chosen shall vacate his office.
WV Code § 6-5-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-5. Disqualification by Conviction of Treason, Felony, or Bribery

No person convicted of treason, felony, or bribery in any election, before any court in or out of this state, shall, while such conviction remains unreversed, be elected or appointed to any office under the laws of this state; and, if any person, while holding such office, be so convicted, the office shall be thereby vacated.
WV Code § 6-5-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-6. Disqualification by Sale or Farming of Office or Sharing of Emoluments

If any person holding, or expecting to hold, any office under the laws of this state, shall sell the same, or let it to farm, or share with another person the emoluments of the office, either in whole or in part, or contract to do so, such person and the person who may buy or take to farm, or share in the emoluments, or contract to do so, shall be thereby disqualified from holding such office.
WV Code § 6-5-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-7. Disqualification by Duelling

Any citizen of this state who shall, either in or out of the state, fight a duel with deadly weapons, or send or accept a challenge so to do, or who shall act as a second, or knowingly aid or assist in such duel, shall ever thereafter be incapable of holding any office of honor, trust or profit in this state.
WV Code § 6-5-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-8. Disqualification of Justice Who Accepts Office as Deputy Sheriff

A justice of the peace who accepts the office of deputy sheriff and qualifies as such, or continues the duties of such office where he has already qualified, shall thereby vacate his office as a justice of the peace.
WV Code § 6-5-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-9. Office Property to Be Delivered to Successor

All acts of the Legislature, codes, forms, reports, blank books, dockets and other property of whatever kind furnished to any officer by authority of law, are declared to be the property of the office, and shall be delivered by the retiring officer to his successor within ten days after the latter shall have entered upon the duties of his office.
WV Code § 6-5-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-10. Procedure on Failure to Deliver Property to Successor; Penalty

If the predecessor of any officer fail to comply with any of the requirements of the preceding section, it shall be the duty of such officer to notify the prosecuting attorney of the county of such failure, who shall forthwith proceed to recover the property, if it can be found, and to place the official bond of such delinquent party in suit, and there shall be a recovery on his official bond of the value of all property not delivered as required by the preceding section or recovered, and, unless it appear that such failure was through no fault of the party complained of, a penalty of $100, and the costs of the suit, including an attorney's fee of $10. The penalty recovered in the suit on the bond shall be paid into the general school fund of the state.
WV Code § 6-5-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-11. Members of Legislature Not to Be Discriminated Against in Connection With Seniority Rights; Pension Coverage or Benefits or Insurance Coverage or Benefits Provided by Employer

In order to encourage dedicated public service, it shall be unlawful for any private employer to discriminate against an employee who is a member of the Legislature, in connection with any employee seniority rights, employee pension coverage or benefits or employee insurance coverage or benefits, because of such employee's absence from work to attend regular or extraordinary sessions of the Legislature: Provided, That such employee continues to contribute his share of the costs for any such coverage or benefits when such contribution is required by his employer. An employee shall have a cause of action against his employer for violation of the provisions of this section and such cause of action may be enforced in a civil action for such purpose.
WV Code § 6-5-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office|§6-5-12. Leave of Absence for Public Officials for Performing Public Duties

Any persons elected to a part-time public office or appointed to a part-time elected public office shall be entitled to a leave of absence from his or her private employment except when such employment is with an employer employing five or fewer persons on a full-time basis on the days or portion of any day during which he or she is engaged in performing the duties of his or her public office. The leave of absence shall not result in any penalty being imposed upon the persons entitled to the leave of absence: Provided, That such leave of absence may be without pay by the private employer.
WV Code § 6-6-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 6. Removal of Officers|§6-6-1. Definitions

(a) The term “official misconduct”, as used in this article, means conviction of a felony during the officer’s present term of office or any willful unlawful behavior by a public officer in the course of his or her performance of the duties of the public office.(b) The term “neglect of duty”, as used in this article, means the knowing refusal or willful failure of a public officer to perform an essential act or duty of the office required by law.(c) The term “incompetence”, as used in this article, may include the following acts or adjudications committed or arising during the challenged officer’s term of office: The waste or misappropriation of public funds by any officer when the officer knew, or should have known, that such use of funds was inappropriate or inconsistent with the lawful duties of the office; conviction of a misdemeanor involving dishonesty or gross immorality, having been the subject of a determination of incapacity, as defined and governed by section seven, article thirty, chapter sixteen of this code; or other conduct affecting the officer’s ability to perform the essential official duties of his or her office including but not limited to habitual drunkenness or addiction to the use of narcotic drugs.(d) The term “qualified petitioner”, as used in this article, means a person who was registered to vote in the election in which the officer was chosen which next preceded the filing of the petition.
WV Code § 6-6-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 6. Removal of Officers|§6-6-2. Retirement of Incapacitated Justices, Judges and Magistrates; Expulsion of Members of Legislature

Any justice, judge, or magistrate may be retired from office because of advancing years and attendant physical or mental incapacity, in the manner prescribed in section eight of article eight of the Constitution of this state, and by rules prescribed, adopted, promulgated and amended pursuant thereto.The Senate or House of Delegates may expel a member of the body in the manner prescribed in section twenty-five of article six of the Constitution.
WV Code § 6-6-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 6. Removal of Officers|§6-6-3. Impeachment

Any officer of the state or any judge may be impeached and removed from office for maladministration, corruption, incompetency, gross immorality, neglect of duty, or any high crime or misdemeanor, in the manner prescribed in section 9 of article IV of the Constitution of this state.
WV Code § 6-6-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 6. Removal of Officers|§6-6-4. Removal by Governor of Appointee

Any person who has been, or may hereafter be appointed by the Governor to any office or position of trust under the laws of this state, whether his tenure of office is fixed by law or not, may be removed by the Governor at his will and pleasure. In removing such officer, appointee, or employee, it shall not be necessary for the Governor to assign any cause for such removal.
WV Code § 6-6-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 6. Removal of Officers|§6-6-5. Removal by Governor of State Elective Officer -- Grounds

Any state officer holding any elective office (except the Governor, any judge, or a member of the Legislature of this state) may be removed from office, by the Governor, in the manner provided in the following section: (a) When disqualified from holding the office under any provision of the Constitution of this state, or any law now in force, or which may hereafter be enacted, whether such disqualification arose before or after his induction into office; (b) for official misconduct, malfeasance in office, incompetence, neglect of duty, or gross immorality.
WV Code § 6-6-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 6. Removal of Officers|§6-6-8. Removal of Appointive County, District or Municipal Officers Without Fixed Terms

The court, board, body or officer authorized by law to appoint any person to any county, magisterial district, independent school district, or municipal office, the term or tenure of which is not fixed by law, may remove any person appointed to any office by such court, board, body or officer, with or without cause, whenever such removal shall be deemed by it, them or for the good of the public service, and the removal of any such person from office shall be final.
WV Code § 6-6-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 6. Removal of Officers|§6-6-9. Forfeiture of Office on Conviction of Offense

Any person holding any office, convicted in any court of any offense, the punishment or penalty for which, under any provision of the Constitution of the State, or any law now in effect, or which may hereafter become effective, entails a forfeiture of the office held by the person convicted, shall be removed from office by the judgment of the court, entered upon such conviction.
WV Code § 6-7-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 7. Compensation and Allowances|§6-7-1. State Officials, Officers and Employees to Be Paid at Least Twice per Month; New Employees Paid in Arrears; Effective Date

All full-time and part-time salaried and hourly officials, officers and employees of the state, state institutions of higher education and the Higher Education Policy Commission shall be paid at least twice per month, and under the same procedures and in the same manner as the State Auditor currently pays agencies: Provided, That on and after July 1, 2002, all new officials, officers and employees of the state, a state institution of higher education and the Higher Education Policy Commission, statutory officials, contract educators with higher education and any exempt official who does not earn annual and sick leave, except elected officials, shall be paid one pay cycle in arrears. The term "new employee" does not include an employee who transfers from one state agency, a state institution of higher education or the Higher Education Policy Commission to another state agency, another state institution of higher education or the Higher Education Policy Commission without a break in service: Provided, however, That, after July 1, 2014, all state employees paid on a current basis will be converted to payment in arrears. For accounting purposes only, any payments received by such employees at the end of the pay cycle of the conversion pay period will be accounted for as a credit due the state. Notwithstanding any other code provision to the contrary, any such credit designation made for accounting of this conversion will be accounted for by the Auditor at the termination of an employee's employment and such accounting shall be documented in the employee's final wage payment. Nothing contained in this section is intended to increase or diminish the salary or wages of any official, officer or employee.
WV Code § 6-7-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 7. Compensation and Allowances|§6-7-2. Salaries of Certain State Officers

(a) Beginning in the calendar year 2005, and for each calendar year after that, salaries for each of the state Constitutional officers are as follows:(1) The salary of the Governor is $95,000 per year;(2) The salary of the Attorney General is $80,000 per year;(3) The salary of the Auditor is $75,000 per year;(4) The salary of the Secretary of State is $70,000 per year;(5) The salary of the Commissioner of Agriculture is $75,000 per year; and(6) The salary of the state Treasurer is $75,000 per year.(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, beginning in the calendar year 2009, and for each calendar year thereafter, salaries for each of the state Constitutional officers shall be as follows:(1) The salary of the Governor shall be $150,000 per year;(2) The salary of the Attorney General shall be $95,000 per year;(3) The salary of the Auditor shall be $95,000 per year;(4) The salary of the Secretary of State shall be $95,000 per year;(5) The salary of the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be $95,000 per year; and(6) The salary of the state Treasurer shall be $95,000 per year.
WV Code § 6-7-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 7. Compensation and Allowances|§6-7-3. Provision for Clerical Assistance, Stationery, Offices, Traveling Expenses and Contingent Fund

It shall be the duty of the Governor to ascertain and report to the Legislature at each regular session the amount deemed necessary to provide each of the officers mentioned in section two of this article with sufficient clerical and office assistance, stationery and equipment for the proper discharge of the duties of the office, and, where offices are not furnished in the capitol building, with proper offices and light, heat and janitor's services for the same; and where any such officer is required in the proper discharge of the duties of his office to travel or journey from place to place, the amount necessary to provide for such purpose; and, where the circumstances may warrant it, the amount necessary to provide for a contingent fund to cover stationery, blank books, blanks, advertising, printing, fuel, lights, postage, express charges, office supplies, furniture, and any other necessary article that may not be otherwise specially provided for.
WV Code § 6-7-3a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 7. Compensation and Allowances|§6-7-3a. How and by Whom Compensation of Other Officers, Assistants and Employees Fixed

The compensation of officers, assistants, and employees in state departments, agencies or institutions whose salary is not otherwise fixed by law, shall be determined in accordance with personnel classifications and uniform salary schedules established as provided by law. Subject to such classifications and schedules the amount of the compensation shall be fixed as follows:1. The salary of an officer in the state government who is appointed by the Governor shall be fixed by the Governor.2. The compensation to be received by a subordinate officer, assistant, or employee in the state government shall be fixed by the person who appoints or employs the subordinate officer, assistant or employee.3. The compensation to be received by persons employed in state institutions under the control of the board of Governors of West Virginia University shall be fixed by such board of Governors.4. The compensation to be received by persons employed in state institutions under the control of the state Board of Education shall be fixed by the state Board of Education.5. The compensation to be received by persons employed in state institutions under the control of the state commissioner of public institutions shall be fixed by the state commissioner of public institutions.
WV Code § 6-7-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 7. Compensation and Allowances|§6-7-5. Mileage and Expenses of Judges

A judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals and of a circuit court shall be entitled to an allowance for mileage at the rate of 15¢ for each mile, to be computed according to the distance by the nearest practicable route necessarily traveled from his place of residence, to the place of holding any term of court in a county other than that of his residence, and from such place to his residence; and a judge of the circuit court shall be paid the sum of $35 per day as expenses while holding court in a county other than that in which he resides: Provided, That no judge of a circuit court shall be paid mileage and expenses for holding more than ten terms of court in any county in any one year, including regular, adjourned and special terms. The mileage and expenses provided for in this article shall be paid to any judge out of the State Treasury as and when the salary of such judge is payable.
WV Code § 6-7-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 7. Compensation and Allowances|§6-7-6. Allowance to Circuit Judges for Stationery, Postage and Stenographic Help

Each judge of the circuit court shall, in accordance with the rules of the Supreme Court of Appeals, be allowed stenographic help necessary in the discharge of the duties of his office, and each judge shall be allowed necessary stationery, payment of postage, and necessary supplies for his office. The judge shall be reimbursed for the actual amounts expended by for stationery, supplies and postage. Payment for stenographic help shall be made directly to the person performing the stenographic work. Such amounts shall be paid monthly out of the state Treasury, but not until the judge submits an itemized statement covering the same.
WV Code § 6-7-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 7. Compensation and Allowances|§6-7-7. No Extra Compensation; Salaries Not to Be Increased or Diminished During Term

No extra compensation shall be granted or allowed to any public officer, agent, servant or contractor, after the services shall have been rendered, nor shall the salary of any public officer be increased or diminished during his term of office.
WV Code § 6-7-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers|Article 7. Compensation and Allowances|§6-7-8. Public Carriage for State Officials and Employees and the University of West Virginia Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of the State College System

State law-enforcement officials, including, but not limited to, the director of the division of public safety, the Adjutant General of the West Virginia National Guard, the director of the Office of Emergency Services, the director of the Division of Natural Resources, the director of the Division of Environmental Protection, the commissioner of the Division of Corrections, the state Fire Marshal, state fire administrator and officials of the university of West Virginia board of trustees and the board of directors of the state college system at the discretion of the respective chancellor thereof, have the authority to use, and permit and allow or disallow their designated employees to use, publicly provided carriage to travel from their residences to their workplace and return: Provided, That such usage is subject to the supervision of such official and is directly connected with and required by the nature and in the performance of such official's or designated employee's duties and responsibilities.