§39-1-1. Power of Attorney May Be Recorded
A power of attorney may be admitted to record in any county.
§39-1-10. When Certificate to Be Under Official Seal
If any acknowledgment be before a notary without this state, he shall certify the same under his official seal.
§39-1-10a. Verification by Written Statement Under Certain Conditions
Any certificate, return, form, statement, or other document which is required by the State of West Virginia, or any office, department or agency thereof, and which does not require an acknowledgment under this article or other laws of recordation of the State of West Virginia, may be verified by written declaration that it is made […]
§39-1-11. Recordation of Writings and Plats and Papers Annexed; Index; Interlineations; Filing Under Uniform Commercial Code
Every writing (except financing, continuation, and termination statements and other statements and writings permitted to be filed under chapter 46 of this code) authorized by law to be recorded, when admitted to record, shall, with all certificates of acknowledgment, and all plats, schedules, and other papers thereto annexed or thereon indorsed, be recorded by, or […]
§39-1-11a. Photographic Recordation
It shall be as legal and effective in all respects to photographically record writings, plats and maps and the papers thereto annexed as if such writings, plats and maps and papers thereto annexed had been recorded by handwriting, or by the use of a typewriter, or by any other means useful for the purpose.
§39-1-12. Special Recordation of Writing Not Acknowledged or Proved for Regular Recordation
If any writing which it is lawful for a clerk of the county court to admit to record, on proper acknowledgment or proof, has been or shall be lodged in his office, and has remained or shall remain therein six months without being acknowledged or proved so that it can be duly admitted to record, […]
§39-1-13. Duty to Record Plat or Plan of Lots
When any tract or parcel of land within the limits of any county of the state has been or shall be hereafter subdivided into lots by any partition of land or by order of the owner or owners, or his or their agent, or otherwise and any lot or lots have been sold or conveyed, […]
§39-1-13a. Consolidation Order Book
The county court of any county may order the clerk of such county court to provide a book or series of books, to be entitled "Consolidation Order Book," in which such clerk shall record all real estate consolidation orders entered by the county court pursuant to section seventeen, article four, chapter eleven of this code, […]
§39-1-14. Notification to File Plat for Record
Upon notice from the clerk of the county court wherein such land so divided is situate, or upon notice from any person owning a lot or lots (or an undivided share or any interest therein) in any such tract or parcel of land so divided, to the owner or owners or his or their agent, […]
§39-1-15. Failure to File Plat After Notification
If such owner, or owners, or his or their agent, upon having been so notified, shall fail to cause such plat or plan to be filed in such offices as aforesaid, such owner, or owners, or his or their agent, shall forfeit and pay the sum of $200 for each period of sixty days that […]
§39-1-16. Approval by City Council or Commissioners Prerequisite to Laying Out Subdivision
In case a proposed subdivision of any lot or parcel of land is situate within the corporate limits of any municipality, or abutting thereon, it shall be the duty of the owner, or owners, or his or their agent, to submit a plat or plan of such subdivision to the council or commissioners of such […]
§39-1-17. Duty to Provide Cornerstone Monuments; Acknowledgment or Proof Not Necessary to Recordation of Plat
It shall be the duty of the engineer in charge, or the owner, or owners, or the agent of the owner or owners, of any subdivision of land in this state to have permanent cornerstone monuments, of stone or concrete, not less than twenty-four inches in length by six inches square at the top, or […]
§39-1-2. Conditions Under Which County Clerk Shall Admit Deeds, Contracts, etc., to Record
The clerk of the county court of any county in which any deed, contract, power of attorney, or other writing is to be, or may be, recorded, shall admit the same to record in his office, as to any person whose name is signed thereto, when it shall have been acknowledged by him or proved […]
§39-1-2a. Other Requirements for Admission to Record of Certain Instruments
(a) In addition to the other requirements prescribed by law, no instrument by which the title to real estate or personal property, or any interest therein or lien thereon, is conveyed, created, encumbered, assigned or otherwise disposed of, shall be recorded or admitted to record, or filed by the county clerk unless the name of […]
§39-1-2b. Recordation of Certified Copies of Certain Instruments
Except as provided in this section, the clerk of the county commission of any county shall admit to record in the office of such clerk a copy of any contract, deed of trust, mortgage, lease, memorandum of lease, release, assignment, power of attorney or any other instrument or writing which has been certified by the […]
§39-1-3. Who May Take Acknowledgment
Upon the request of any person interested therein, such clerk of the county court shall also admit any such writing to record, as to any person whose name is signed thereto, upon a certificate of his acknowledgment before the president of a county court, a justice of the peace, notary public, recorder, prothonotary or clerk […]
§39-1-4. Form of Certificate of Acknowledgment
The certificate of acknowledgment mentioned in the preceding section may be in form or effect as follows: State (territory or district) of …………….., county of …………………….., to wit: I, ………, recorder of said municipality; or I, ………….., a notary public of said county; or I, …………., a clerk of the ………………. court of said county; […]
§39-1-4a. Acknowledgment of Persons in the Military Service of the United States of America
Upon the request of any person interested therein, the clerk of the county court of any county in which any deed, contract, power of attorney, or other writing is to be, or may be, recorded, shall admit the same to record as to any person whose name is signed thereto who is in the military […]
§39-1-5. Acknowledgment by Husband and Wife
When a husband and wife have signed a writing purporting to sell or convey real estate, the wife may acknowledge the same together with, or separately from her husband. Either the husband or the wife may sign and acknowledge the writing before the other has signed or acknowledged it. If both acknowledge the writing at […]
§39-1-6. Certificates as to Wives Living Separate and Apart to Be Prima Facie Evidence in Certain Cases
The certificate of acknowledgment heretofore taken of a married woman to a deed or other writing conveying, or agreeing to sell and convey, real estate which was her sole and separate property, purporting to show that at the time of its execution and acknowledgment such married woman was living separate and apart from her husband, […]