Unless otherwise specially provided, process against, or notice to, a corporation created by virtue of the laws of this state may be served as follows:
(a) If a city, town or village, on its mayor, city manager, recorder, clerk, treasurer, or any member of its council or board of commissioners;
(b) If a county commission of any county, on any commissioner or the clerk thereof, or if they be absent, on the prosecuting attorney of the county;
(c) If a Board of Education of any district or independent school district, on the president or any commissioner thereof, or if they be absent, on the prosecuting attorney of the county;
(d) If any other corporation, on the Secretary of State as statutory attorney-in-fact of such corporation, as provided in section fifteen, article one, chapter thirty-one of this code, or on any person appointed by it to accept service of process in its behalf, or on its president or other chief officer, or its vice president, cashier, assistant cashier, treasurer, assistant treasurer, secretary, or any member of its board of directors, or, if no such officer or director be found, on any agent of such corporation, including in the case of a railroad company a depot or station agent in the actual employment of the company.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice
Article 3. Writs, Process and Order of Publication
§56-3-2a. Actions for Breach of Promise to Marry and for Alienation of Affections Prohibited
§56-3-3. Forms of Writs and Other Process
§56-3-4. Issuance of Process; Alteration
§56-3-5. To Whom Process Directed; Return of Process; Return of Summons for Witness
§56-3-7. Officer's Receipt of Process
§56-3-8. Proof of Mailing Process to Officer
§56-3-9. Service in Other County; Return
§56-3-10. Clerk's Receipt of Process Sent by Mail; Postage Due
§56-3-13. Service of Process or Notice on Domestic Corporations
§56-3-14. Service of Process or Notice on Foreign Corporations
§56-3-15. Service of Process or Notice on Common Carriers Other Than Corporations
§56-3-16. Execution of Process on Sunday
§56-3-17. Where Process May Be Executed
§56-3-18. When Officer May Summon Assistance; Failure to Assist
§56-3-19. Officer's Service and Return of Process; Failure to Make Proper Return; False Return
§56-3-20. Further Liability for Failure to Make Proper Return
§56-3-22. Judgment on Return Nihil
§56-3-23. Service by Publication Generally
§56-3-24. Contents of Order of Publication; Publishing
§56-3-25. Failure to Appear in Response to Publication; Trial or Hearing
§56-3-26. Rehearing in Case of Nonpersonal Service
§56-3-27. Order of Publication in Supreme Court of Appeals
§56-3-28. Requisites of Publication in Supreme Court of Appeals
§56-3-29. Rehearing in Supreme Court of Appeals