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2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 3. Deputy Officers and Conservators of the Peace › §6-3-4. Judgment on Motion Against Officer or Deputy and Sureties

If any officer or his deputy shall make such return upon any order, warrant, or process issued by a court, or the judge or clerk thereof, as entitles any person to recover money from such officer by action, the court to which, or to the clerk's office of which, such return is made, may, on a motion on behalf of such person, give judgment against such officer and his sureties, and against his and their personal representatives, for so much principal and interest as would, at the time such return ought to have been made, be recoverable by such action, with interest thereon at the rate of not less than six nor more than fifteen percent per annum (as the court may deem proper) from that time until payment. Where such return is by deputy, there may also be a like motion and judgment against such deputy and his sureties, and against his and their personal representatives.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 3. Deputy Officers and Conservators of the Peace › §6-3-5. Judgment on Motion by Officer Against Deputy and Sureties

Where any deputy of a sheriff or collector shall commit any default or misconduct in office for which his principal, or the personal representative of such principal, is liable, for which a judgment or decree shall be rendered against either, such principal, or his personal representative, may, on motion, obtain a judgment against such deputy and his sureties, and their personal representatives, for the full amount for which such principal, or his personal representatives, may be so liable, or for which such judgment or decree may have been rendered. But no judgment shall be rendered by virtue of this section for money, for which any other judgment or decree has been previously rendered, against such deputy or his sureties or their personal representatives.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 3. Deputy Officers and Conservators of the Peace › §6-3-6. Payment by Officer or Sureties of Judgment for Default of Deputy; Remedies

When any judgment or decree shall be obtained against a sheriff or collector, or his sureties, or their personal representatives, for or on account of the default or misconduct of any such deputy, and shall be paid in whole or in part by any defendant therein, he or his personal representative may, on motion, obtain a judgment or decree against such deputy and his sureties, and their personal representatives for the amount so paid, with interest thereon from the time of such payment, and five percent damages on such amount.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 4. Credentials of Officers › §6-4-1. United States Senators, Representatives, and Presidential Electors

The Governor shall, whenever requested, give a certificate under his hand and the great seal of the state, to each person elected a senator or member of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States, or an elector of president and vice-president of the United States, which certificates, respectively, shall be substantially in the following forms:
(SENATOR)
State of West Virginia, to-wit:
I, ................., Governor of said State, pursuant to the laws in such case made and provided, do hereby certify that ...................., of the county of ..................., was duly chosen a member of the Senate in the Congress of the United States for the State of West Virginia, on the ......... day of ..........., .............., for the term commencing on March 4, next ensuing (or for the unexpired term ending on March 3, .........., as the case may be).
Given under my hand and the great seal of the State of West Virginia, on this the ........... day of ............, ........
(MEMBER OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES)
State of West Virginia, to-wit:
I, ........................., Governor of the said State, pursuant to the laws in such case made and provided, do hereby certify that .............................., of the county of ................, was duly chosen a member of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States on the .............. day of ................, ......, for the ....... congressional district of this state composed of the counties of ......................, for the term commencing on March 4, next ensuing (or for the unexpired term ending on March 3, ........., as the case may be).
Given under my hand and the great seal of the State of West Virginia, on this the ........... day of ............, ......
(PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS)
State of West Virginia, to-wit:
I, ......................, Governor of said State pursuant to the laws in such case made and provided, do hereby certify that ...................., of the county of ............, was duly appointed by this State at an election held therein on the ........... day of November, ......., an elector of president and vice-president of the United States.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the State of West Virginia, on this the ............. day of ............, ........
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 4. Credentials of Officers › §6-4-2. United States Senator Appointed to Fill Vacancy

When a vacancy shall occur in the representation of this state in the Senate of the United States, and the same shall be filled by the Governor by appointment under the provisions of chapter three, he shall, when requested, deliver to the person so appointed a certificate under his hand and the great seal of the state, which shall be substantially in the following form: State of West Virginia, to-wit:
Whereas, ..............., who was duly chosen a senator of the United States in the manner provided by law, for the term ending on March 3, in the year ........., having (died, resigned, been removed, or otherwise ceased to be a senator, as the case may be):
Therefore, I, ......................, Governor of the State of West Virginia, pursuant to the authority vested in me by law, do appoint ......................., of the county of ..............., a senator from this state in the Senate of the United States, until the general election next to be hereafter held in the State of West Virginia, and until his successor shall have been chosen and shall have qualified.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the State of West Virginia, on the ............. day of .................., .......
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 4. Credentials of Officers › §6-4-3. Judges and Appointive Officers

The credentials of the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, the circuit, intermediate, criminal, common pleas, and other inferior courts, and of all persons appointed to office by the Governor, shall consist of a certificate or commission issued by the Governor under the great seal of the state, showing the election or appointment of such person to the office.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 4. Credentials of Officers › §6-4-4. County and District Officers and Deputies

The credentials of any county or district officer shall consist of the certificate of the county court issued as a canvassing board under the provisions of article five, chapter three of this code. The credentials of any deputy officer shall consist of the order of the court, or tribunal in lieu thereof, authorizing or assenting to the appointment of such deputy.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office › §6-5-1. When Terms of Office to Begin

The terms of officers, except when elected or appointed to fill vacancies, shall begin respectively as follows: That of Governor, Secretary of State, State Superintendent of Free Schools, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General and Commissioner of Agriculture, on the first Monday after the second Wednesday of January next after their election; that of a member of the Legislature, on December 1, next after his or her election; and that of the justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals, the judges of the Intermediate Court of Appeals, the judges of the several circuit courts, the judges of the family and other inferior courts, the county commissioners, prosecuting attorneys, surveyors of land, assessors, sheriffs, clerks of the circuit, or other inferior courts, clerks of the county commissions, magistrates, on January 1, next after their election.
Whenever a person is elected or appointed to fill a vacancy, his or her term shall be as prescribed by chapter three of this code.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) or subsection (b) of this section, beginning calendar year 2025, and beginning in the calendar year of each fourth year thereafter, the salary of the Governor shall be set by the Salary Table For Locality Pay Area of Rest of U.S. as published by the United States Office of Personnel Management. The salary of the Governor shall be equal to the amount set as Grade 15, Step 10 on the Salary Table For Locality Pay Area of Rest of U.S. at the beginning of that calendar year and shall not be increased or diminished for the duration of the four year term of office beginning in that calendar year.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) or subsection (b) of this section, beginning calendar year 2025, and beginning in the calendar year of each fourth year thereafter, the salary of the Attorney General, Auditor, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and the Treasurer shall be set by the Salary Table General Schedule Increase as published by the United States Office of Personnel Management. The salary of the Attorney General, Auditor, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and the Treasurer shall be equal to the amount set as Grade 15, Step 4 on the Salary Table General Schedule Increase at the beginning of that calendar year and shall not be increased or diminished for the duration of the four year terms of each of those offices beginning in that calendar year.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-1. Settlements for Public Funds

Every public officer, whether state, county, magisterial district, independent school district, or municipal, who is authorized to receive, or who is charged with the collection, custody, or disbursement of, any public moneys, shall, within thirty days after June 30 of each year, or within thirty days after the close of his term of office, whenever the same expires, make settlement of his accounts. For all moneys belonging to or for the use of the state, such settlement shall be made with the Auditor of the state, and the entry thereof on the books of the Auditor shall constitute a proper recordation of such settlement; for all moneys belonging to or for the use of any county, such settlement shall be with the county court or other tribunal created by law in lieu thereof; for all moneys belonging to or for the use of any magisterial district such settlement shall be with the county court or other tribunal created by law in lieu thereof; for all moneys belonging to or for the use of any magisterial school district or independent school district, such settlement shall be with the county court, or other tribunal created by law in lieu thereof, and with the board of Education of such magisterial district or independent school district; for all moneys belonging to or for the use of any municipality, such settlement shall be with the council or other like body of such municipality, or with the board in charge thereof for the use of which the moneys are collected and disbursed in any municipality. Wherever the settlement is above required to be with the county court, or with any Board of Education, or with any municipal council or board, such settlement may be made by two commissioners of the county, one of whom shall have been appointed by the circuit court of the county, or judge thereof in vacation, and the other by such county court, or such Board of Education, or such municipal council or board.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-2. Contents of Settlement; Exceptions; Confirmation

Every such settlement shall show the several items of receipts and disbursements and to whom and for what purpose any public moneys are paid. Every such settlement shall be subject to exceptions by the body with which the same is made, by the prosecuting attorney, by the chief inspector and supervisor of public offices, or by any taxpayer who was assessed for and paid in any of the funds being settled for, and such exceptions shall be heard and determined by the body before which the settlement is made. If any exception be sustained, the settlement shall be modified and reformed accordingly, and shall then be confirmed, and upon being so confirmed shall be deemed prima facie correct.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-3. Fine and Forfeiture for Failure to Make Settlement

If any officer required by this article to make settlement of his accounts shall fail to do so within the time required, he shall forfeit all right to commission on any moneys collected and disbursed by him, or if paid a salary and not commission, shall forfeit one half his salary, and shall moreover, in either case, be subject to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, for the use of the school fund, which commission or salary, if already paid to such officer, and such fine, shall be recoverable by motion, upon ten days' previous notice, in the circuit court of the county of such officer's residence, of and from such officer and the sureties on his bond.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-4. Notice of Settlement to Chief Inspector and Supervisor of Public Offices

Every officer who is required by law to settle his accounts shall, at least fifteen days before making such settlement, give, by registered mail, to the chief inspector and supervisor of public offices, notice of the time and place of such settlement, and the name of the court, officer, board, body or commission before or with whom the same is to be made.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-5. Sheriff as County Treasurer; Settlements; Turning Over Money to Successor

The sheriff shall be ex officio treasurer of his county and of the several districts thereof, and the word or designation "sheriff" whenever used in this code shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be held to include the sheriff as ex officio treasurer of the county and of the several districts thereof. Between the fifteenth and thirty-first days of December of the year in which a sheriff's term of office expires, such sheriff shall make up a list of all uncollected taxes and shall make a complete settlement with the county court, or tribunal in lieu thereof, and the board of Education in such county, in the manner provided by law for settlements required at the end of the fiscal year. The sheriff shall receive credit in such settlement for the amount of taxes, remaining unpaid, and such list of taxes remaining unpaid shall be turned over to his successor in office January first. It shall be the duty of such successor to collect such taxes and to make up a delinquent list as provided and required by law; also to make settlement at the end of the fiscal year with the county court, or tribunal in lieu thereof, and the county board of education, in the manner provided by law. Every sheriff shall, on the first of January immediately following the expiration of his term of office, turn over to his successor all public moneys. Every sheriff who is appointed to fill a vacancy shall make such settlement with the county court, or tribunal in lieu thereof, and the county board of education, immediately upon the qualification of his successor, and at such time turn over to such successor all public moneys.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-6. Reports and Settlements of Sheriff; Penalties for False Affidavit

The sheriff shall from time to time make to the county court of his county, or other tribunal in lieu thereof, such reports as such court or tribunal may direct, respecting his receipts and disbursements, and the state of the county treasury; or any other matter committed to his charge, or pertaining to the finances of the county. But at the end of the fiscal year he shall render to such court or tribunal, whether especially requested or not, a full statement of his account for that fiscal year, showing the balance due by or to him at the commencement of the account, the amount of money collected by him during the year, and from what sources, and the date and amount of every county order paid, and to whom it was paid, together with such other particulars, if any, as such court or tribunal may specially require. If the court, or tribunal, upon an examination of such report, find the account to be correctly stated therein, it shall approve the same and cause it to be entered in full in a proper record book to be kept for the purpose in the office of the clerk of the county court. But if such account be found incorrect, the court or tribunal shall make a restatement thereof, correcting the errors and omissions in the account as stated by the sheriff, which corrected account shall be entered in full on such record book. And in either event the court or tribunal shall cause the county orders listed in such statement to be cancelled in some way not easily obliterated, but not so as to render them illegible; and the same shall then be filed and preserved in the office of the clerk of the county court. A certified copy of the entry in such record book shall be delivered by the clerk of the county court to the sheriff, which copy shall operate as a receipt to such sheriff for the county orders named in such account and cancelled as aforesaid. Before the making of any such settlement as aforesaid, the sheriff shall return and file a written statement of every draft, order and claim paid by him, for which he claims a credit, and of the true amount actually and in good faith paid by him thereon, together with the drafts and orders upon which such payments were made, and shall append to such statement his affidavit that the same is true; and, until he does so, no credit shall be allowed him for any such payment. If such affidavit be falsely made the sheriff making same shall be guilty of neglect of official duty, and, on conviction thereof, his office shall become vacant and he shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than one month nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-7. Settlements by Sheriff for School Funds

The county court of each county shall appoint a time immediately following July 1, in each year, and in any event within thirty days thereafter, and within thirty days following the expiration of the term of office of any sheriff, for the settlement of the school funds of the county. At the time so fixed, the school board of that county and the treasurer of the county board of education, unless the sheriff has been designated treasurer of the county board pursuant to section six, article nine, chapter eighteen of this code, shall meet with the county court. The sheriff of the county shall attend such meeting and lay before the county court and such Board of Education his account of school funds for the county, which account shall be then and there settled. The county court shall give at least five days' notice of the time fixed for the settlement of the county school funds to the county board of education, the treasurer of the county board of education and the sheriff.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-8. Same -- With What Sheriff to Be Charged

In his settlement of school funds the sheriff shall be charged with the amount of taxes and of general school fund apportioned to each county and the amount of taxes levied by the board of Education upon the property of the county and for all school funds, and for any other money received by during the current year on account of the free schools of the county.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-9. Same -- With What Sheriff to Be Credited

The sheriff shall be credited in such settlements with the amount of delinquent school tax in the county that has been duly certified by the clerk of the county court to the county board of education; and with all orders paid and produced by him, if found to be correct by the board of Education. He shall receive no other credits.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-10. Same -- Method of Settlement

In making such settlement it shall be the duty of the sheriff to prepare and present to the county board of education, in duplicate, separate lists of all the credits claimed by him against each of the several school funds collected by him, showing the amount, date and number of each voucher or order, and to whom payable, together with statements of the proper debits to the several funds to which he is chargeable; which lists and statements, together with the vouchers claimed as credits by the sheriff, shall, if found correct by such board, be endorsed by the treasurer of the board on the back of each with the words, "Settled by the board of Education," under which the treasurer shall sign his name and enter the date of the settlement, and such statements and lists, after being corrected, if corrections are necessary, shall be signed by the sheriff and by the president and treasurer of the board of Education in duplicate, one copy to be retained by such board, and the other, together with the vouchers and orders, to be turned over to the county court. Exceptions may be taken to such settlement as provided in section two of this article, which exceptions shall be heard and decided by the county court. If the county court finds the settlement to be correct, or after it has corrected the same, it shall be confirmed and made a matter of record by the clerk of the county court in a book kept for that purpose.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-11. Settlements by Sheriff for School Funds -- Failure to Account for and Pay Over Money

If any sheriff shall fail to account for and pay over as required by law any school funds which may come into his hands, or for which he is liable, judgment may be rendered therefor against him and his sureties with interest and ten percent damages.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 8. Settlements by Officers › §6-8-12. Settlements by Sheriff for School Funds -- Failure of Sheriff to Make Settlement; Payment of Balance to Successor

If any sheriff fails to make the settlement required by section seven of this article at the time required, without reasonable cause therefor, he shall be charged in such settlement with twelve percent interest on all school money in his hands for the time he is in default in making the settlement. If the sheriff fails to make the settlement at the time required, it shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney to proceed by action against him and his sureties in the circuit court to recover the penalties imposed upon him by this section and by section three of this article.
Every retiring sheriff shall immediately after he shall have made his final settlement in the manner herein provided, pay and turn over to his successor in office such balance as may be shown to be due from him by such settlement.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers › Article 9. Supervision of Local Government Offices › §6-9-1. Tax Commissioner to Be Chief Inspector and Supervisor; Assistants, Clerks and Allowances

The State Tax Commissioner shall be ex officio the chief inspector and supervisor of public offices, and as such officer (hereafter called the chief inspector) he shall have the power and authority and perform the duties hereafter set forth. He shall have such assistants and clerical help and allowances as may be necessary to enable him to carry out the purposes of this article.