Any suit may be commenced and prosecuted against a member of the Legislature, if his person be not taken into custody or imprisoned. But no trial shall be had or judgment rendered in any such suit, nor shall any execution or attachment be levied upon the property of such member during the sessions of the Legislature or for ten days immediately before or immediately after session.
Structure West Virginia Code
§4-1-1. Interim Committee and Subcommittee Meetings
§4-1-2. How Appropriations Made and Applied
§4-1-3. Suits Against Members of Legislature; Exemption From Arrest, Trial, Judgment and Levy
§4-1-4. Compelling Members to Attend
§4-1-6. Administration of Oaths to Members of Legislature, Officers and Witnesses
§4-1-6a. False Swearing in a Legislative Proceeding; Penalty
§4-1-7. Flags Displayed During Sessions
§4-1-8. Officers and Employees; Tenure
§4-1-9. Assistant Clerks; Committee Clerks to Assist
§4-1-10. Powers and Duties of Officers
§4-1-10a. Filling Vacancies in the Office of Presiding Officer of the Two Houses
§4-1-11. Vacancies in Clerkships
§4-1-12. Custody of Journals and Documents; Certified Copies
§4-1-14. Copies of Enrolled Bills Mailed to Courts; Effect
§4-1-15. Fees of Clerks for Copying or Recording
§4-1-16. Indexes to Journals; Printing; Compensation for Preparing
§4-1-17. Priority of Legislative Business for Members and Designated Employees
§4-1-19. Distribution of Acts of the Legislature
§4-1-20. Legislative Findings; Space in the Capitol Building for Use by Legislature
§4-1-21. Prefiling of Bills and Resolutions