West Virginia Code § 56-3-13

Service of process or notice on domestic corporations
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Unless otherwise specially provided, process against, or notice to, a corporation created by
virtue of the laws of this state may be served as follows:
(a) If a city, town or village, on its mayor, city manager, recorder, clerk, treasurer, or any
member of its council or board of commissioners;
(b) If a county commission of any county, on any commissioner or the clerk thereof, or if they
be absent, on the prosecuting attorney of the county;
(c) If a Board of Education of any district or independent school district, on the president or
any commissioner thereof, or if they be absent, on the prosecuting attorney of the county;
(d) If any other corporation, on the Secretary of State aas statutory attorney-in-fact of such
corporation, as provided in section fifteen, article one, chapter thirty-one of this code, or on
any person appointed by it to accept service of prolcess in its behalf, or on its president or
other chief officer, or its vice president, cashier, assistant cashier, treasurer, assistant
treasurer, secretary, or any member of its board of directors, or, if no such officer or
director be found, on any agent of such coirporation, including in the case of a railroad
company a depot or station agent in the actual employment of the company.

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