West Virginia Code § 44-3A-44

Rules applicable to fiduciary supervisors and fiduciary commissioners;
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exceptions as to certain counties.
(a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this section and to the provisions of article
thirteen of this chapter, any power, authority or duty conferred upon the clerk of the county
commission with respect to the settlement, regulation and supervision of estates in any
provision of this article or in any provision of this code is hereby transferrede to the fiduciary
supervisor created under the provisions of section three, article three-a of this chapter.
Whenever by any provision of this article any paper, document or record is required or
permitted to be recorded, the fiduciary supervisor shall tender thue same to the clerk of the
county commission and such clerk of the county commission shall admit the same to record
and shall record the same at the expense of the personal reptresentative and the fiduciary
supervisor shall collect such fees as are required by law for the recordation of such
documents and all such fees so collected and paid to the clerk of the county commission
shall be disposed of and accounted for in the same manner as if such fees had been collected
as for the recordation of deeds.
(b) Any reference of this code to commissioner of accounts or to fiduciary commissioner or to
any power, authority or duty conferred upon a commissioner of accounts is hereby intended
to mean and in all respects is confergred upon the fiduciary commissioner created by section
thirty- five of this article, and, as to matters permitted by law to be done by the fiduciary
supervisor, upon such fiduciarey supervisor.
(c) Any provision of this article or of article one of this chapter to the contrary
notwithstanding, in each county in which there exists a separate tribunal for police and fiscal
purposes created under section thirty-four, article VIII of the Constitution of one thousand
eight hundred seventy-two, the clerk of the county commission shall have the power and
discharge the duties which are by any provision of this chapter conferred upon the fiduciary
supervisor or the clerk of the county commission.

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