West Virginia Code
Article 4. Executions
§38-4-20. Time and Place for Sale of Personal Property Under Distraint, Levy or Order of Court; Posting or Publishing Notice; Conduct and Terms of Sale

In any case where an officer shall distrain or levy upon personal property, otherwise than under an execution or order issued by a justice, or under an attachment, and in any case in which he may be directed to sell personal property by an order of a court or judge, unless such order prescribes a different course, he shall fix upon a time and place for the sale thereof, and publish notice of such sale at least ten days by posting the same at the door of the courthouse of his county and some other conspicuous place near the residence of the owner, if he resides in the county: Provided, That any sheriff or other officer proceeding to sell under a writ of fieri facias or venditioni exponas, if the property be of the value of $500 or more, shall advertise the sale as a Class II-0 legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be the county. If the property be perishable or expensive to keep, it may be sold by order of the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, upon such notice as the court or judge may direct.
At the time and place so appointed the officer shall sell to the highest bidder for cash, except as hereinafter provided in section twenty-three of this article, such personal property, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 38. Liens

Article 4. Executions

§38-4-1. Executions Against Corporations

§38-4-2. Executions on Joint Judgments

§38-4-3. Execution for Benefit of Person Other Than Plaintiff

§38-4-4. Writs of Possession and Fieri Facias on Judgments for Specific Property

§38-4-5. Execution or Fieri Facias on Money Judgment

§38-4-6. On What Fieri Facias May Be Levied

§38-4-7. How Currency or Bank Notes Shall Be Accounted For

§38-4-8. Commencement and Duration of Lien of Fieri Facias

§38-4-9. Purchaser for Value and Without Notice Before Levy Takes Free of Lien; Payment or Delivery to Debtor Without Notice Is Without Liability

§38-4-10. Docketing as Constructive Notice

§38-4-11. Docketing of Execution

§38-4-12. Exemption From Execution

§38-4-13. Indorsement of Time of Receipt by Officer; Penalty for Failure to Indorse

§38-4-14. Order of Levy and Satisfaction of Several Writs

§38-4-15. Rules Concerning Distress or Levy

§38-4-16. Officer's Return Upon Fieri Facias

§38-4-17. Resale Upon Default of Purchaser

§38-4-18. Writ of Venditioni Exponas; Notice of Sale

§38-4-19. Proceeding in Case of Death of Officer Before Sale

§38-4-20. Time and Place for Sale of Personal Property Under Distraint, Levy or Order of Court; Posting or Publishing Notice; Conduct and Terms of Sale

§38-4-21. Adjournment of Sale

§38-4-22. Appraisal Before Sale

§38-4-23. Method and Terms of Sale of Appraised Property

§38-4-24. Payments on Purchase Money Notes

§38-4-25. Judgment on Defaulted Purchase Money Notes

§38-4-26. Form of Judgment on Notes

§38-4-27. Disposition of Surplus Received by Officer; Disposition of Money Not Paid Over When Execution Stayed

§38-4-28. Liability of Officer for Money Received Under Execution Payable to Nonresident of County

§38-4-29. Successive Executions

§38-4-30. New Execution When Property Sold Is Recovered From Obligor on Indemnifying Bond or Purchaser

§38-4-31. Motion to Quash Execution

§38-4-32. Limitation on Motion for Failure to Return Execution