The official bond provided for in section ten of this article, relating to county clerks, shall be deemed to apply only to collection of local fees. The State Auditor, on behalf of the general school fund, and the state conservation commissioner, on behalf of the state conservation commission, shall require from the county clerk of any county such additional bonds as are deemed necessary, and in such amounts as are deemed adequate to protect the general school funds and the state conservation funds in the hands of such clerk. The Auditor and the state conservation commissioner shall require corporate surety bonds and pay the necessary premiums from the said general school funds and the said state conservation fund on said additional bonds, but the amount of such additional bonds shall not exceed the amount of the state funds handled by such clerk during the preceding fiscal year.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 6. General Provisions Respecting Officers
Article 2. Official and Other Bonds
§6-2-1. When Official Bonds to Be Given
§6-2-2. How Bonds Made Payable and Proved; Sureties
§6-2-4. Failure to Give Bond; Penalty for Acting Without Giving Bond
§6-2-5. Bonds of Officers Appointed to Fill Vacancies
§6-2-6. Bonds of Certain State Officers
§6-2-7. Approval of Form and Execution by Attorney General
§6-2-8. Bond of Clerk of Supreme Court of Appeals
§6-2-9. Where Bonds of Clerk and State Officers Filed and Recorded
§6-2-10. Bonds of County Officers; Required for Deputy Sheriffs
§6-2-10a. Additional Bonds of County Clerks
§6-2-11. Bonds of Municipal Officers
§6-2-12. Where Certain Bonds Filed and Recorded
§6-2-13. Copies to Be Sent to the State Tax Commissioner; Penalty for Failure to Send
§6-2-14. Requiring New or Additional Bonds; Effect of Failure to Give
§6-2-15. How Surety Released From Liability; Requiring Substitute Bond
§6-2-16. Effect of New or Additional Bond
§6-2-17. Suits on Bonds Payable to State Brought in Name of State
§6-2-18. Proceedings Must Show for Whose Benefit Prosecuted; Costs
§6-2-19. When Bonds May Be Required of Other Officers and Employees
§6-2-19a. Oaths and Bonds of Employees and Deputies of Tax Commissioner's Office