Relating to requirements for deputy sheriffs

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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2026
REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 5019
By Delegates Sheedy, Stephens, Bell, and Canterbury
[Introduced February 02, 2026; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend and reenact §6-2-10 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to bonds of county officers; and increasing all bond limits to $500,000.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 2. OFFICIAL AND OTHER BONDS.

§6-2-10. Bonds of county officers; required for deputy sheriffs.

Every commissioner of a county commission and every clerk of a circuit court shall give bond with good security, to be approved by the circuit court, or the judge thereof in vacation; and every sheriff, deputy sheriff, surveyor of lands, clerk of a county commission, assessor, county superintendent of schools, notary public and magistrate shall give bond with good security, to be approved, unless otherwise provided by law, by the county commission of the county in which such officer is to act. The penalty of the bond of each commissioner of a county commission shall be not less than $20,000 and not more than
$200,000

$500,000
, the amount to be fixed by the circuit court of the county, or the judge thereof in vacation, by order entered of record on the proper order books of both the county and circuit courts; of the clerk of the circuit court, not less than $10,000 nor more than
$50,000

$500,000
; of the sheriff, not less than $100,000 nor more than the aggregate amount of all state, county, district, school, municipal and other moneys which will probably come into his
or her
hands during any one year of his
or her
term of office; of the deputy sheriff, not less than $35,000 nor more than
$100,000

$500,000
; of the surveyor of lands, not less than $1,000 nor more than
$3,000

$500,000
; of the clerk of the county commission, not less than $10,000 nor more than
$50,000

$500,000
; of the assessor, not less than $2,000 nor more than
$5,000

$500,000
; of the county superintendent of schools, not less than $10,000 nor more than
$50,000

$500,000
; of a notary public, not less than $250 nor more than
$1,000

$500,000
. Any public body required to pay the premiums on official bonds may provide a blanket bond policy for two or more such official bonds:
Provided,
That the bond herein required to be given by a notary public may be given before the clerk of the county commission, in the vacation of said commission, and approved by it at its next regular session.
For the purposes of this section, "deputy sheriff" shall mean a person appointed by a sheriff as his
or her
deputy whose primary duty as such deputy is within the scope of active, general law enforcement and as such is authorized to carry deadly weapons, patrol the highways, perform police functions, make arrests or safeguard prisoners.
The bond described in this section is not required for deputy sheriffs if a county purchases professional liability insurance pursuant to the provisions of section three, article fourteen-a, chapter seven of this code.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to raise all bonds to $500,000.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.

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