West Virginia Code § 44-5-5

When additional or new bond may be required of a fiduciary, or his
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authority be revoked.
The county commission under whose order, or under the order of whose clerk, any such
fiduciary derives his authority, when it appears proper on any report of the clerk or a
fiduciary commissioner or a commissioner in chancery, or on evidence adduced before it by
any party interested, may, at any time, whether such fiduciary shall or shalle not have before
given any bond, or whether he shall have given one with or without sureties, order him to
give before the commission an additional bond within a prescribed reasronable time, in such
penalty, and with or without sureties, as may appear proper; or when any surety on the bond
of a fiduciary, or the personal representative of any surety, shall apply therefor, the
commission shall order the fiduciary to give before it a new bond within a prescribed
reasonable time, in such penalty, and with such sureties, as tmay appear proper, it may, in
either case, if the order be not complied with, or whenever from any cause it appears
proper, revoke and annul the powers of such fiduciary. No such order shall be made unless
reasonable notice is given to the fiduciary by the clerk or the fiduciary commissioner who
made the report, or by the surety or the personal representative of the surety making the
application aforesaid, or by the service of a rule or otherwise. No such order of revocation
shall invalidate any previous acts of the fiduciary.

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