§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.
§59-3-8. 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 […]
§59-2-17. Fees of Prosecuting Attorney
The clerk shall include in the costs, for fees of the prosecuting attorney, the following: (a) In cases of misdemeanor, or an action upon a bond for a violation of the license laws, $15, of which $5 of that amount shall be deposited in the courthouse facilities improvement fund created by section six, article twenty-six, […]
§59-2-18. Judgment or Decree on Behalf of State for Costs
In a case wherein there is judgment or decree on behalf of the state for costs, there shall be taxed in the costs the charge actually incurred to give any notice, although it be more than 50¢ and mileage, and the fees of attorneys and other officers for services, and allowances for attendance, as if […]
§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 […]