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Article 1. Oaths of Office
§6-1-1. Members of Congress - Every person elected or appointed a member of the United...
§6-1-2. Members of State Legislature - Every person elected or appointed a member of the Senate,...
§6-1-3. Other Officers - Except as provided in sections one and two of this...
§6-1-4. Before Whom Taken - Any oath of office may be taken in this state...
§6-1-5. When Taken - The oaths required by section three of this article shall...
§6-1-6. Where Certificates of Oaths Filed and Recorded; Destruction of Originals - Certificates of the oaths of all magisterial district and county...
§6-1-7. Acting Before Taking Oath - No person elected or appointed to any office, civil or...
§6-1-8. List of County Officers to Be Furnished Secretary of State - The clerk of the county court of each county, within...
Article 2. Official and Other Bonds
§6-2-1. When Official Bonds to Be Given - Any person appointed or elected to any office or position...
§6-2-2. How Bonds Made Payable and Proved; Sureties - Every official bond, and every bond required by law to...
§6-2-3. Condition; Liability - Unless otherwise specially provided, every bond required by any statute...
§6-2-4. Failure to Give Bond; Penalty for Acting Without Giving Bond - If any person elected or appointed to any office, or...
§6-2-5. Bonds of Officers Appointed to Fill Vacancies - The bond of any officer appointed to fill a vacancy...
§6-2-6. Bonds of Certain State Officers - The following officers shall give bonds to be approved by...
§6-2-7. Approval of Form and Execution by Attorney General - Every bond requiring the approval of the Governor, the board...
§6-2-8. Bond of Clerk of Supreme Court of Appeals - The clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals shall give...
§6-2-9. Where Bonds of Clerk and State Officers Filed and Recorded - The bond of the clerk of the Supreme Court of...
§6-2-10. Bonds of County Officers; Required for Deputy Sheriffs - Every commissioner of a county commission and every clerk of...
§6-2-10a. Additional Bonds of County Clerks - The official bond provided for in section ten of this...
§6-2-11. Bonds of Municipal Officers - Every officer or employee of a municipality who handles public...
§6-2-12. Where Certain Bonds Filed and Recorded - Every official bond given before, or approved by, the county...
§6-2-13. Copies to Be Sent to the State Tax Commissioner; Penalty for Failure to Send - A copy of the official bond of every sheriff, assessor,...
§6-2-14. Requiring New or Additional Bonds; Effect of Failure to Give - Any court, board, or officer authorized to approve any official...
§6-2-15. How Surety Released From Liability; Requiring Substitute Bond - When a surety in an official bond, or personal representative,...
§6-2-16. Effect of New or Additional Bond - Where it is provided by any section of this article,...
§6-2-17. Suits on Bonds Payable to State Brought in Name of State - Upon any bond payable to the State of West Virginia,...
§6-2-18. Proceedings Must Show for Whose Benefit Prosecuted; Costs - The proceedings in such suit must show for whose benefit...
§6-2-19. When Bonds May Be Required of Other Officers and Employees - Any board, commission or officer who has authority by law...
§6-2-19a. Oaths and Bonds of Employees and Deputies of Tax Commissioner's Office - The Tax Commissioner shall require every employee and deputy who...
§6-2-20. Premiums to Be Allowed on Official Bonds - Every officer or employee who is paid a salary, and...
§6-2-21. Bonds Taken for Persons in Custody - No officer, by color of office, shall take any obligation,...
Article 3. Deputy Officers and Conservators of the Peace
§6-3-1. Appointment of Deputies and Local Conservators of the Peace; Powers and Duties; Compensation; Vacating Appointment of Deputy Sheriff; Removal of Conservators - (a) (1) The clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals,...
§6-3-1a. Deputy Sheriff’s Reserve; Purpose; Appointment and Qualifications of Members; Duties; Equipment; Attire; Training; Oath; Bond; Not Employee of Sheriff or County Commission for Certain Purposes; Limitation on Liability - (a) The sheriff of any county may, for the purposes...
§6-3-2. Removal of Deputies - Any deputy appointed pursuant to section one of this article,...
§6-3-3. On Death of Principal, Deputy to Act; Liability of Principal's Bond; Removal and Appointment of Deputy; New or Additional Bond - If any officer, having appointed a deputy or deputies, shall...
§6-3-4. Judgment on Motion Against Officer or Deputy and Sureties - If any officer or his deputy shall make such return...
§6-3-5. Judgment on Motion by Officer Against Deputy and Sureties - Where any deputy of a sheriff or collector shall commit...
§6-3-6. Payment by Officer or Sureties of Judgment for Default of Deputy; Remedies - When any judgment or decree shall be obtained against a...
§6-3-7. Jurisdiction of Motion Against Deputy - Any motion, under either of the two preceding sections, may...
Article 4. Credentials of Officers
§6-4-1. United States Senators, Representatives, and Presidential Electors - The Governor shall, whenever requested, give a certificate under his...
§6-4-2. United States Senator Appointed to Fill Vacancy - When a vacancy shall occur in the representation of this...
§6-4-3. Judges and Appointive Officers - The credentials of the judges of the Supreme Court of...
§6-4-4. County and District Officers and Deputies - The credentials of any county or district officer shall consist...
Article 5. Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office
§6-5-1. When Terms of Office to Begin - The terms of officers, except when elected or appointed to...
§6-5-2. Continuance Until Successor Qualified - The term of every officer shall continue (unless the office...
§6-5-2a. Appointments to State Boards, Agencies, Commissions and Committees Affected by Changes in Congressional Districts - Any amendment of section three, article two, chapter one of...
§6-5-3. Validity of Acts of Officers De Facto - All judgments given and all acts done by any person,...
§6-5-4. Residence of Officers - The Governor, Secretary of State, state superintendent of free schools,...
§6-5-5. Disqualification by Conviction of Treason, Felony, or Bribery - No person convicted of treason, felony, or bribery in any...
§6-5-6. Disqualification by Sale or Farming of Office or Sharing of Emoluments - If any person holding, or expecting to hold, any office...
§6-5-7. Disqualification by Duelling - Any citizen of this state who shall, either in or...
§6-5-8. Disqualification of Justice Who Accepts Office as Deputy Sheriff - A justice of the peace who accepts the office of...
§6-5-9. Office Property to Be Delivered to Successor - All acts of the Legislature, codes, forms, reports, blank books,...
§6-5-10. Procedure on Failure to Deliver Property to Successor; Penalty - If the predecessor of any officer fail to comply with...
§6-5-11. Members of Legislature Not to Be Discriminated Against in Connection With Seniority Rights; Pension Coverage or Benefits or Insurance Coverage or Benefits Provided by Employer - In order to encourage dedicated public service, it shall be...
§6-5-12. Leave of Absence for Public Officials for Performing Public Duties - Any persons elected to a part-time public office or appointed...
Article 6. Removal of Officers
§6-6-1. Definitions - (a) The term “official misconduct”, as used in this article,...
§6-6-2. Retirement of Incapacitated Justices, Judges and Magistrates; Expulsion of Members of Legislature - Any justice, judge, or magistrate may be retired from office...
§6-6-3. Impeachment - Any officer of the state or any judge may be...
§6-6-4. Removal by Governor of Appointee - Any person who has been, or may hereafter be appointed...
§6-6-5. Removal by Governor of State Elective Officer -- Grounds - Any state officer holding any elective office (except the Governor,...
§6-6-6. Removal by Governor of State Elective Officer -- Procedure; Appeal - The charges on which the removal of any officer mentioned...
§6-6-7. Procedure for Removal of County, School District and Municipal Officers Having Fixed Terms; Appeal; Grounds; Cost - (a) Any person holding any county, school district or municipal...
§6-6-8. Removal of Appointive County, District or Municipal Officers Without Fixed Terms - The court, board, body or officer authorized by law to...
§6-6-9. Forfeiture of Office on Conviction of Offense - Any person holding any office, convicted in any court of...
Article 7. Compensation and Allowances
§6-7-1. State Officials, Officers and Employees to Be Paid at Least Twice per Month; New Employees Paid in Arrears; Effective Date - All full-time and part-time salaried and hourly officials, officers and...
§6-7-2. Salaries of Certain State Officers - (a) Beginning in the calendar year 2005, and for each...
§6-7-2a. Terms of Certain Appointive State Officers; Appointment; Qualifications; Powers and Salaries of Officers - (a) Each of the following appointive state officers named in...
§6-7-3. Provision for Clerical Assistance, Stationery, Offices, Traveling Expenses and Contingent Fund - It shall be the duty of the Governor to ascertain...
§6-7-3a. How and by Whom Compensation of Other Officers, Assistants and Employees Fixed - The compensation of officers, assistants, and employees in state departments,...
§6-7-5. Mileage and Expenses of Judges - A judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals and of...
§6-7-6. Allowance to Circuit Judges for Stationery, Postage and Stenographic Help - Each judge of the circuit court shall, in accordance with...
§6-7-7. No Extra Compensation; Salaries Not to Be Increased or Diminished During Term - No extra compensation shall be granted or allowed to any...
§6-7-8. Public Carriage for State Officials and Employees and the University of West Virginia Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of the State College System - State law-enforcement officials, including, but not limited to, the director...
Article 8. Settlements by Officers
§6-8-1. Settlements for Public Funds - Every public officer, whether state, county, magisterial district, independent school...
§6-8-2. Contents of Settlement; Exceptions; Confirmation - Every such settlement shall show the several items of receipts...
§6-8-3. Fine and Forfeiture for Failure to Make Settlement - If any officer required by this article to make settlement...
§6-8-4. Notice of Settlement to Chief Inspector and Supervisor of Public Offices - Every officer who is required by law to settle his...
§6-8-5. Sheriff as County Treasurer; Settlements; Turning Over Money to Successor - The sheriff shall be ex officio treasurer of his county...
§6-8-6. Reports and Settlements of Sheriff; Penalties for False Affidavit - The sheriff shall from time to time make to the...
§6-8-7. Settlements by Sheriff for School Funds - The county court of each county shall appoint a time...
§6-8-8. Same -- With What Sheriff to Be Charged - In his settlement of school funds the sheriff shall be...
§6-8-9. Same -- With What Sheriff to Be Credited - The sheriff shall be credited in such settlements with the...
§6-8-10. Same -- Method of Settlement - In making such settlement it shall be the duty of...
§6-8-11. Settlements by Sheriff for School Funds -- Failure to Account for and Pay Over Money - If any sheriff shall fail to account for and pay...
§6-8-12. Settlements by Sheriff for School Funds -- Failure of Sheriff to Make Settlement; Payment of Balance to Successor - If any sheriff fails to make the settlement required by...
Article 9. Supervision of Local Government Offices
§6-9-1. Tax Commissioner to Be Chief Inspector and Supervisor; Assistants, Clerks and Allowances - The State Tax Commissioner shall be ex officio the chief...
§6-9-1a. Definitions - As used in this article: (a) “Audit” means a systematic...
§6-9-2. Uniform System of Accounting and Reporting for Local Governmental Offices and Agencies; Form and Uniform System for Receipts; Additional Power and Authority - The chief inspector shall formulate, prescribe and install a system...
§6-9-2a. Local Government Purchasing Card Program - Notwithstanding any provisions of the code to the contrary, the...
§6-9-2b. Local Government Purchasing Card Expenditure Fund Created - There is hereby created a local Government Purchasing Card Expenditure...
§6-9-2c. Fraudulent or Unauthorized Use of Purchasing Card Prohibited; Penalties - (a) It is unlawful for any person to use a...
§6-9-3. Separate Accounts for Different Appropriations or Funds, Departments, Undertakings, etc.; Transfer of Unexpended Balances - Separate accounts shall be kept for every appropriation or fund...
§6-9-4. Separate Accounts for Each Public Service Industry; Contents - Separate accounts shall be kept for every public service industry,...
§6-9-5. Reports to and by Chief Inspector - The chief inspector shall require from every local taxing agency...
§6-9-6. Accounts and Reports by Local Public Officers Remitting Funds Collected to Proper Officer - All local governing officers, departments, boards and commissions shall keep...
§6-9-7. Examinations Into Affairs of Local Public Offices; Penalties - (a) The chief inspector has the power by himself or...
§6-9-8. Payment of Cost of Services of Chief Inspector; Revolving Fund - (a) The cost of any service or act performed by...
§6-9-8a. Audit Cost Amnesty Program - (a) Notwithstanding any other code provision to the contrary, the...
§6-9-9. Deputies of Chief Inspector - Any duty or act required by this article to be...
§6-9-9a. Public Inspection of Reports of Examinations - All reports of examinations and audits of public offices made...
§6-9-9b. Documentation of Chief Inspector - (a) The audit working papers created by the chief inspector...
§6-9-10. Statutory References to Audits or Examinations of State Offices by Tax Commissioner or Inspector or Supervisor of Public Offices - Whenever any statute refers to an audit or examination of...
§6-9-11. Transfer of Certain Powers and Duties of Tax Commissioner to State Auditor; Rules; Interagency Agreement; Report to Legislature - (a) Effective July 1, 1999, the State Auditor shall be...
§6-9-12. Business Intern Program - Beginning July 1, 2002, the chief inspector shall develop in...
Article 9A. Open Governmental Proceedings
§6-9A-1. Declaration of Legislative Policy - The Legislature hereby finds and declares that public agencies in...
§6-9A-2. Definitions - As used in this article: (1) "Decision" means any determination,...
§6-9A-3. Proceedings to Be Open; Public Notice of Meetings - (a) Except as expressly and specifically otherwise provided by law,...
§6-9A-4. Exceptions - (a) The governing body of a public agency may hold...
§6-9A-5. Minutes - Each governing body shall provide for the preparation of written...
§6-9A-6. Enforcement by Injunctions; Actions in Violation of Article Voidable; Voidability of Bond Issues - The circuit court in the county where the public agency...
§6-9A-7. Violation of Article; Criminal Penalties; Attorney Fees and Expenses in Civil Actions - (a) Any person who is a member of a public...
§6-9A-8. Acting by Reference; Written Ballots - (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the members...
§6-9A-9. Broadcasting or Recording Meetings - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any radio...
§6-9A-10. Open Governmental Meetings Committee - The West Virginia Ethics Commission, pursuant to subsection (j), section...
§6-9A-11. Request for Advisory Opinion; Maintaining Confidentiality - (a) Any governing body or member thereof subject to the...
§6-9A-12. Duty of Attorney General, Secretary of State, Clerks of the County Commissions and City Clerks or Recorders - It is the duty of the Attorney General to compile...
Article 9B. Open Governmental Finances
§6-9B-1. Legislative Findings - (a) The Legislature finds that taxpayers should be able to...
§6-9B-2. Definitions - For the purpose of this article: (a) “Auditor” means the...
§6-9B-3. Searchable Financial Transparency Website Created - No later than July 1, 2018, the State Auditor shall...
§6-9B-4. Contents of the Searchable Website - (a) The Auditor shall include as part of the searchable...
Article 10. Employment of Wife by State Official or Employee
§6-10-1. Employment of Wife at Public Expense Prohibited - The employment of his wife at public expense by any...
Article 11. Leave of Absence for Public Officers Entering Military Service
§6-11-1. Persons Entitled to Leave - Any person holding any office or position of public trust,...
§6-11-2. Period of Replacement Appointment - Whenever the holder of any such public office or position...
§6-11-3. Article Not to Affect Terms or Authorize Compensation to Persons Not Performing Duties - This article shall not be construed: (a) As any attempt...
§6-11-4. Provisions of Article Retroactive - The provisions of this article shall be retroactive as to...
Article 12. General Liability, Bodily Injury and Property Damage Insurance by State and Local Governments
§6-12-1. General Liability Insurance for Proprietary Functions; Bodily Injury and Property Damage Motor Vehicle Insurance at Public Expense; Contractors to Provide Like Insurance - Officers, boards, commissions or agencies of the state or of...
§6-12-2. Policy May Authorize Action Against Insurance Company With or Without Joining Driver as Defendant - Any insurance policy obtained in pursuance of the provisions of...
§6-12-3. Article Not to Create New Right of Action - This article shall not be so construed as to authorize...
Article 13. Preference Rating of Veterans on Written Examination on Nonpartisan Merit Basis
§6-13-1. Preference Rating of Veterans on Written Examinations for Positions in State Departments Filled Under Nonpartisan Merit System - For positions in any agency as defined in section four,...
Article 14. Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act
§6-14-1. Definitions - As used in this article: (a) "Public security" means a...
§6-14-2. Facsimile Signature; Use; Legal Effect - Any authorized officer, after filing with the Secretary of State...
§6-14-3. Facsimile Seal; Use; Legal Effect - When the seal of this state or of any of...
§6-14-4. Use With Intent to Defraud; Penalty - Any person who with intent to defraud uses on a...
§6-14-5. Construction - This article shall be so construed as to effectuate its...
§6-14-6. Citation - This article may be known and cited as the "Uniform...
§6-14-7. Severability Provision - If any provision of this article or the application thereof...
§6-14-8. Inconsistent Articles Repealed - All articles and parts of articles inconsistent with the provisions...