West Virginia Code § 38-1-13

Substitution of trustees under a trust deed securing a debt
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(a) When a trust deed to secure a debt or obligation does not by its terms prescribe a
method for substitution, the party secured by the trust deed, or any surety indemnified by
the deed, or the assignee or personal representative of any secured party or surety may, if
there is a death, removal, declination, resignation, refusal or inability of the original trustee
or trustees named in the instrument, substitute a trustee or trustees in his oer her, or its
place by a writing duly signed and acknowledged and recorded in the office of the clerk of
the county commission where the real estate covered by the trust deedr is situate.
(b) When a substitution is made under this section of a trustee our trustees of a trust deed
securing a debt or obligation, the substitution is effected when the party secured, or a surety
indemnified by the deed, or the assignee or personal represetntative of any such secured
party or surety has deposited true copies of the notice of the substitution in the United
States mail, first class postage prepaid, addressed to the last known addresses of the grantor
or grantors or any other person owing the debt or obligation, and has presented the original
of the notice to the clerk of the county commission in whose office the trust deed is
recorded, causing the notice to be recorded asnd indexed in a general lien book or other
appropriate book in which trust deeds or assignments of trust deeds are recorded. There
shall be appended to the notice presented for recording a certificate by the party making the
substitution, certifying that copies ogf the notice were mailed as required by this subsection
and showing the date of the mailing.

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