§59-3-8. Construction of Article; Repeal; Subsequent Legislation
This article is intended to standardize and make uniform certain areas of the law relating to newspapers, qualified newspapers, legal advertisements and publication of a newspaper or qualified newspaper, and to this end all other provisions in this code or elsewhere in law pertaining to such subjects shall be construed so as to conform to […]
§59-3-9. Severability
If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held unconstitutional or invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act, and to this end, the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.
§59-2-19. Premiums on Surety Company Bonds
The clerk or justice shall include in the costs of all actions, suits or proceedings, and the party entitled to recover costs may recover as part thereof, such sum as may have been paid by such party to a company, authorized under the laws of this state so to do, for executing or guaranteeing any […]
§59-3-1. Definitions and General Provisions
(a) As used in this article, elsewhere in this code or in any other provision of law: (1) "Legal advertisement" means any notice, advertisement, statement, information or other matter required by law or court to be published.
§59-3-2. Classification of Legal Advertisements; Designation of Newspapers; Frequency of Publication; Posting; Manner of Publishing; Publication of Notices for the State and Its Agencies
(a) A Class I legal advertisement shall be published one time, a Class II legal advertisement shall be published once a week for two successive weeks, and a Class III legal advertisement shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in a qualified newspaper published in the publication area; or if there is […]
§59-3-3. Rates for Legal Advertisements; Computation; Filing Affidavits With Secretary of State
(a) The rates which a publisher or proprietor of a qualified newspaper in West Virginia may charge and receive for a single or first publication of any legal advertisement set solid depends on the bona fide circulation of the newspaper, as follows: (1) Four cents per word if the qualified newspaper has a bona fide […]
§59-3-4. Proof of Publication and Posting
(a) Any qualified newspaper publishing a legal advertisement incident to any type of judicial proceeding or any provision in a deed of trust or contract, or incident to any other case if required by the responsible party placing the legal advertisement for publication, shall make and furnish under oath an affidavit of publication of each […]
§59-3-5. Mandamus to Compel Publication
Any citizen, taxpayer, or the publisher or proprietor of any qualified newspaper entitled by law to have any legal advertisement published in his qualified newspaper, which any county court or tribunal created in lieu thereof, Board of Education, governing body of any municipal corporation, or public officer, shall fail or refuse to make, may have […]
§59-3-6. Political Advertisements
In no case involving the publication of paid advertisements for candidates for political office shall the rate charged by any publisher or proprietor of any newspaper be more than the average rate received by him from private patrons for similar advertising composed of reading matter or photographs and requiring the same amount of space.
§59-3-7. Criminal and Civil Penalties
(a) Any person who publishes a legal advertisement and who knowingly refused to file with the Secretary of State the affidavit for the fiscal year in which the legal advertisement was published, as required by the provisions of section three of this article, or to make and furnish the affidavit required by the provisions of […]