Where it is provided by any section of this article, or any other section of this code, or shall be provided by any subsequent statute, that any new bond, or bonds in addition to one already given, may be required to be given by any officer, fiduciary, or any other person, if such new bond, when required, be given and accepted, the sureties in the former bond and their estates shall, except in cases where it is otherwise expressly provided, be discharged from all liability for any breach of duty committed by their principal after such new bond is given and accepted. If such additional bond, when required, be given and accepted, the former bond shall continue in force and have the same effect in all respects as if such additional bond had not been required, given, and accepted; except that in such case the sureties in the additional bond shall be jointly liable with the sureties in the former bond for any breach of duty committed by their principal after such additional bond was so given and accepted.
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