West Virginia Code
Article 4. Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts
§39-4-31. Government Notaries Public

(a) State and local government employees may be commissioned as government notaries public to act for and in behalf of their respective state and local government offices.
(b) A state or local government employee commissioned under this section shall meet the requirements for qualification and appointment prescribed in this article except that the head of the state or local government office where the applicant is employed, or his or her designee, shall execute a certificate that the application is made for the purposes of the office and in the public interest and submit it to the Secretary of State together with the application for appointment as a notary public.
(c) The costs of application and all notary supplies for a commissioned state or local government employee shall be paid from funds available to the office in which he or she is employed.
(d) All fees received for notarial services by a government notary public appointed for and in behalf of a state or local government office shall be remitted by him or her to the state or local government office in which he or she is employed.
(e) A government notary public must comply with all provisions of this article in the performance of notarial acts.
(f) A government notary public may acknowledge any document required to be acknowledged by a notary public: Provided, That a government notary public may not operate privately.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 39. Records and Papers

Article 4. Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts

§39-4-1. Short Title

§39-4-2. Definitions

§39-4-3. Applicability; Operative Date of Enactment; Effect on Existing Law

§39-4-4. Authority to Perform Notarial Act

§39-4-5. Requirements for Certain Notarial Acts

§39-4-6. Personal Appearance Required

§39-4-6a. Remote Acknowledgements and Notarizations Under Covid-19 Executive Order Deemed Valid

§39-4-7. Identification of Individual

§39-4-8. Authority to Refuse to Perform Notarial Act

§39-4-9. Signature if Individual Is Unable to Sign

§39-4-10. Notarial Act in This State

§39-4-11. Notarial Act in Another State

§39-4-12. Notarial Act Under Authority of Federally Recognized Indian Tribe

§39-4-13. Notarial Act Under Federal Authority

§39-4-14. Foreign Notarial Act

§39-4-15. Certificate of Notarial Act

§39-4-16. Short Form Certificates

§39-4-17. Official Stamp

§39-4-18. Stamping Device

§39-4-19. Notification Regarding Performance of Notarial Act on Electronic Record, Selection of Technology

§39-4-20. Commission as Notary Public; Qualifications; No Immunity or Benefit; Disposition of Fees

§39-4-21. Grounds to Deny, Refuse to Renew, Revoke, Suspend, or Condition Commission of Notary Public

§39-4-22. Database of Notaries Public

§39-4-23. Prohibited Acts

§39-4-24. Validity of Notarial Acts

§39-4-25. Rules

§39-4-26. Notary Public Commission and Commissioner Appointment in Effect

§39-4-27. Savings Clause

§39-4-28. Uniformity of Application and Construction

§39-4-29. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act

§39-4-30. Maximum Fees

§39-4-31. Government Notaries Public

§39-4-32. Liability of Notary and of an Employer of Notary

§39-4-33. Criminal Penalties

§39-4-34. Action for Injunction; Unauthorized Practice of Law

§39-4-35. Administrative Complaints and Investigations

§39-4-36. Secretary of State Record Retention

§39-4-37. Remote Online Notarial Act Performed for Remotely Located Individual

§39-4-38. Remote Ink Notarial Act Performed for Remotely Located Individual