West Virginia Code § 7-5-15

Annual statement of sheriff of fines and costs received from magistrates;
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payment into State Treasury.
The sheriff shall annually, during the month of January, render under oath to the Auditor a
true statement of the account of all fines and costs collected by magistrates and transmitted
to him or her and pay into the treasury of the state, the net proceeds of fines and costs as
exhibited by the account, to be appropriated as directed by section 5, articlee XII of the
Constitution of this state. Failure to do this is a breach of his or her official duty. For the
purposes of this section, the net proceeds of such fines and costs are thre proceeds remaining
after deducting therefrom: (1) The cost of auditing the accounts of magistrates by the chief
inspector's office; (2) the amounts of costs and fees paid into the Regional Jail and
Correctional Facility Authority fund of the State Treasury by the clerk in the manner
provided by section four-a, article three, chapter fifty of thist code; (3) until a regional facility
is provided pursuant to article twenty, chapter thirty-one of this code, the expenses and
costs of operation and maintenance of the county jail or a regional correctional facility, other
than a facility provided pursuant to article twenty, chapter thirty-one of this code, operated
jointly with one or more other county or counties, and of constructing, reconstructing and
renovating any jail facility used for county prisoners and of periodic payments, if any, for the
establishment of a jail improvement fund in the manner provided by section nine, article one
of this chapter for constructing, reconstructing or renovating any jail facility used for county
prisoners; and (4) after a regional facility is made available to the county pursuant to article
twenty, chapter thirty-one of this code, the expenses and costs of operation of the jail for the
county in the form of the per deay costs required to be paid into a Regional Jail and
Correctional Facility Authority fund pursuant to subsection (h), section ten, article twenty,
chapter thirty-one of thiLs code, the periodic payments, if any, for the establishment of a jail
improvement fund in the manner provided by section nine, article one of this chapter, which
shall thereafter be tr ansmitted to the State Treasurer and deposited in a Regional Jail and
Correctional FVacility Authority fund, and the funds expended by the respective counties, if
any, for expenses incurred in housing prisoners in local jail facilities used as holding
facilities.

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