West Virginia Legislature
Code of West Virginia, 1931
Official Recodification - Enacted December 31, 1930 - Effective January 1, 1931
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6-3-7 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Deputy Officers Jurisdiction of Motion Any motion, under either of the two preceding sections, may be made in the circuit court of the county in which the default or misconduct of the deputy occurred… Proofed
6-4-1 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Credentials of Officers Senators; Representatives; and Presidential Electors The governor shall, whenever requested, give a certificate under his hand and the great seal of the State, to each person elected a senator or member of the hou… Proofed
6-4-2 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Credentials of Officers United States Senator Appointed to Fill Vacancy When a vacancy shall occur in the representation of this State in the senate of the United States, and the same shall be filled by the governor by appointment u… Proofed
6-4-3 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Credentials of Officers Judges and Appointive Officers The credentials of the judges of the supreme court of appeals, the circuit, intermediate, criminal, common pleas, and other inferior courts, and of all persons … Proofed
6-4-4 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Credentials of Officers County and District Officers and Deputies The credentials of any county or district officer shall consist of the certificate of the county court issued as a canvassing board under the provisions of arti… Proofed
6-5-1 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office Terms of Office The terms of officers, except when elected or appointed to fill vacancies, shall begin respectively as follows: That of the governor, secretary of state, state… Proofed
6-5-2 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office Continuance Until Successor Qualified The term of every officer shall continue (unless the office be vacated by death, resignation, removal from office, or otherwise), until his successor is elected… Proofed
6-5-3 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office Validity of Acts of Officers De Facto All judgments given and all acts done by any person, by authority or color of any office, or the deputation thereof, under the restored government of Virginia o… Proofed
6-5-4 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office Residence of Officers The governor, secretary of state, state superintendent of free schools, auditor, treasurer, attorney general and commissioner of agriculture, shall reside at th… Proofed
6-5-5 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office Disqualification by Conviction of Treason, Felony, or Bribery No person convicted of treason, felony, or bribery in any election, before any court in or out of this State, shall, while such conviction remains unreversed, b… Proofed
6-5-6 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office Disqualification by Sale or Farming of Office or Sharing of Emoluments If any person holding, or expecting to hold, any office under the laws of this State, shall sell the same, or let it to farm, or share with another person the e… Proofed
6-5-7 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office Disqualification by Duelling Any citizen of this State who shall, either in or out of the State, fight a duel with deadly weapons, or send or accept a challenge so to do, or who shall act a… Proofed
6-5-8 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office Disqualification of Justice Who Accepts Office as Deputy Sheriff A justice of the peace who accepts the office of deputy sheriff and qualifies as such, or continues the duties of such office where he has already qualified, sh… Proofed
6-5-9 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office Office Property to be Delivered to Successor All acts of the legislature, codes, forms, reports, blank books, dockets and other property of whatever kind furnished to any officer by authority of law, are d… Proofed
6-5-10 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Terms of Office; Matters Affecting the Right to Hold Office Procedure on Failure to Deliver Property to Successor; Penalty If the predecessor of any officer fail to comply with any of the requirements of the preceding section, it shall be the duty of such officer to notify the prose… Proofed
6-6-1 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Removal of Officers Definitions The term “neglect of duty,” or the term “official misconduct,” as used in this article, shall include the willful waste of public funds by any officer or office… Proofed
6-6-2 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Removal of Officers Incapacitated Judges; Members of the Legislature Any judge may be removed from office when incapable of discharging the duties of the office, in the manner prescribed in section seventeen of article eight of t… Proofed
6-6-3 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Removal of Officers Impeachment Any officer of the State or any judge may be impeached and removed from office for maladministration, corruption, incompetency, gross immorality, neglect of dut… Proofed
6-6-4 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Removal of Officers Removal by Governor of Appointee Any person who has been, or may hereafter be appointed by the governor to any office or position of trust under the laws of this State, whether his tenure of of… Proofed
6-6-5 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Removal of Officers Removal by Governor of State Elective Officer; Grounds Any state officer holding, any elective office (except the governor, any judge, or a member of the legislature of this State) may be removed from office, by the… Proofed
6-6-6 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Removal of Officers Procedure for Such Removal; Appeal The charges on which the removal of any officer mentioned in the preceding section is sought shall be reduced to writing and signed by a citizen or citizens of … Proofed
6-6-7 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Removal of Officers Procedure for Removal of County, District and Municipal Officers Any person holding any county, magisterial district, independent school district, or municipal office, including the office of a member of a board of education,… Proofed
6-6-8 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Removal of Officers Appointive County, District or Municipal Officers The court, board, body or officer authorized by law to appoint any person to any county, magisterial district, independent school district, or municipal office,… Proofed
6-6-9 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Removal of Officers Forfeiture of Office on Conviction of an Offense Any person holding any office, convicted in any court of any offense, the punishment or penalty for which, under any provision of the Constitution of the State,… Proofed
6-7-1 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Compensation and Allowances Salary and Allowances to State Officers to be Paid Monthly The salary and allowances of all state officers payable out of the state treasury shall be paid in equal monthly installments at the end of each month. Proofed
6-7-2 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Compensation and Allowances Salaries of Certain State Officers The following officers shall receive from the State annual salaries at the rate hereinafter named: The governor, or acting governor, ten thousand dollars; A … Proofed
6-7-3 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Compensation and Allowances Provision for Clerical Assistance, Stationery, Offices, Traveling Expenses, and Contingent Fund It shall be the duty of the state board of public works to ascertain and report to the legislature at each regular session the amount deemed necessary to provid… Proofed
6-7-4 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Compensation and Allowances Salaries of Circuit Court Judges Each of the judges of the circuit courts shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars, except in circuits having a population of more than forty thou… Proofed
6-7-5 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Compensation and Allowances Mileage, Food and Lodging of Judges A judge of the supreme court of appeals and of a circuit court shall be entitled to an allowance for mileage at the rate of ten cents for each mile, to be compu… Proofed
6-7-6 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Compensation and Allowances Allowance to Circuit Judges for Stationery, Postage and Stenographic Work Each judge of the circuit court shall be reimbursed out of the state treasury for the actual amounts expended by him for the procurement of necessary stationery… Proofed
6-7-7 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Compensation and Allowances No Extra Compensation; Salaries Not to be Increased or Diminished During Term No extra compensation shall be granted or allowed to any public officer, agent, servant or contractor, after the services shall have been rendered, nor shall th… Proofed
6-8-1 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Settlements for Public Funds Every public officer, whether state, county, magisterial district, independent school district, or municipal, who is authorized to receive, or who is charged wi… Proofed
6-8-2 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Contents of Settlement; Exceptions; Confirmation; Recording Every such settlement shall show the several items of receipts and disbursements and to whom and for what purpose any public moneys are paid. Every such settlem… Proofed
6-8-3 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Fine and Forfeiture for Failure to Make Settlement If any officer required by this article to make settlement of his accounts shall fail to do so within the time required, he shall forfeit all right to commissio… Proofed
6-8-4 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Notice of Settlement to Chief Inspector and Supervisor of Public Offices Every officer who is required by law to settle his accounts shall, at least fifteen days before making such settlement, give, by registered mail, to the chief i… Proofed
6-8-5 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Sheriff as County Treasurer; Settlements ; Turning Over Money to Successor The sheriff shall be ex officio treasurer of his county and of the several districts, school districts and independent school districts thereof, and the word; o… Proofed
6-8-6 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Reports and Settlements of Sheriff The sheriff shall from time to time make to the county court of his county, or other tribunal in lieu thereof, such reports as such court or tribunal may direct… Proofed
6-8-7 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Settlements by Sheriff for School Funds The county court of each county shall appoint a time immediately following the first day of July in each year, and in any event within thirty days thereafter, a… Proofed
6-8-8 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Same; With What Sheriff to be Charged In his settlement of school funds the sheriff shall be charged with the amount of taxes and of general school fund apportioned to each district or independent d… Proofed
6-8-9 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Same; With What Sheriff to be Credited The sheriff shall be credited in such settlements with the amount of delinquent school tax in such district or independent district that has been duly certified… Proofed
6-8-10 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Same; Method of Such Settlement In making such settlement it shall be the duty of the sheriff to prepare and present to the board of education, in duplicate, separate lists of all the credits … Proofed
6-8-11 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Same; Failure to Account for Money If any sheriff shall fail to account for and pay over as required by law any school funds which may come into his hands, or for which he is liable, judgment may… Proofed
6-8-12 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Settlements by Officers Same; Failure of Sheriff to Make Settlement; Payment of Balance to Successor If any sheriff fails to make the settlement required by section seven of this article at the time required, without reasonable cause therefor, he shall be charg… Proofed
6-9-1 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Supervision of Public Offices Chief Inspector and Supervisor The state tax commissioner shall be ex officio the chief inspector and supervisor of public offices, and as such officer (hereafter called the chief inspector) … Proofed
6-9-2 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Supervision of Public Offices How and by Whom System of Accounting Prescribed The chief inspector shall formulate, prescribe and install a system of accounting and reporting in conformity with the provisions of this article, which shall b… Proofed
6-9-3 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Supervision of Public Offices Separate Accounts for Different Appropriations Separate accounts shall be kept for every appropriation or fund made or levied by a taxing body, showing the date and manner of each payment made out of the fun… Proofed
6-9-4 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Supervision of Public Offices Separate Accounts for Each Public Service Industry Separate accounts shall be kept for every public service industry, which shall show the true and entire cost of the ownership and operation thereof, the amount … Proofed
6-9-5 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Supervision of Public Offices Reports to and by Chief Inspector The chief inspector shall require from every taxing body and public institution financial reports covering a full period of each fiscal year, in accordance with… Proofed
6-9-6 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Supervision of Public Offices Accounts and Reports by Public Officers All state officers, departments, boards and commissions shall keep their financial accounts in records and forms approved or prescribed by the chief inspector o… Proofed
6-9-7 Ch. 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS Supervision of Public Offices Examination Into Affairs of Public Officers The chief inspector shall have power by himself, or by any person appointed by him to perform the service, to examine into all financial affairs of every public… Proofed
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