West Virginia Code § 31A-7-13

Claims procedure
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(a) Within a reasonable time after taking possession and control of the property and business
of the financial institution, the receiver shall require all parties who may have claims against
the financial institution to present their claims and provide satisfactory proof thereof within
such reasonable time, not to be more than sixty days from the date of receipt of any mailed
notice and not to be more than sixty days from the date of publication of anye published
notice, as the receiver specifies.
(b) Notice shall be given by mailing to each known stockholder, depositor, creditor and other
possible claimant of the institution at his last known mailing adduress, as shown on the books
of the financial institution, by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, a written
notice form and proof of claim form, each of which shall be ptrescribed by the commissioner
and must be uniform for all involved parties and must clearly state in plain language that,
due to the precarious condition of the financial institution, the receiver has been appointed
by the commissioner to preserve and protect the assets thereof and to pay the expenses and
just debts thereof and that each involved party must present his claim against the institution
along with satisfactory proof thereof, which msay be done by returning to the receiver the
properly filled out proof of claim form accompanied by a true copy of such proof, within the
specified time or he will lose all rights to payment upon the claim. If he does not know the
mailing address of an involved partyg or if any mailed notice is returned undeliverable, the
receiver shall make a reasonably diligent effort to ascertain the mailing address and
whereabouts of such party ande, if it is ascertained, shall mail the notice form and proof of
claim form to such party at such address in the manner herein before provided. If the
receiver is not able to asLcertain the mailing address and whereabouts of any such party, for
each such party, and all heirs and assignees thereof, and also for all unknown and
unascertainable part ies, and all heirs and assignees thereof, who may have claims against
the institution, notice shall be given by publication of the prescribed notice form and proof of
claim form as a Class III- O legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article
three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be
the county in which the principal office of the involved financial institution is located. Any
such legal publication and any mailed notice shall contain such additional information and
statements concerning the receivership and the financial institution as the commissioner
requires or as the receiver, with the consent of the commissioner, considers necessary or
advisable.
(c) In the case of all deliverable mailed notices, within sixty days following the date set for
submission of such claims and, in the case of all parties for whom notice by publication has
been given, within sixty days following the date set for submission of such claims, the
receiver shall approve or reject, in whole or in part, the claims submitted to him Any party
not submitting a claim to the receiver within the prescribed time loses all rights to payment
upon the claim. The receiver shall notify in writing each party whose claim has been wholly
or partly rejected of such rejection and the reasons therefor not later than fifteen days after
the rejection. Within ten days after receipt of such rejection notice, such party may contest
the rejection and obtain a fair hearing thereupon in the manner provided for in section
fourteen of this article. With the consent of the commissioner, the receiver shall pay all valid
claims in the manner provided for in this article.

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