§ 9-a. Special registrars; compensation of county court and clerk; delivery of registration books to city clerk; return to clerk of county court.

No special registrars shall be appointed for any primary, general or special municipal election. The county court of Kanawha County and the clerk thereof shall not be compensated for their services required by this and the last preceding section [§ 9] unless required by state law or authorized by city council.

On the day prior to any primary, general or special municipal election not coinciding with a state or county election the clerk of said county court shall deliver to the city clerk of the City of Charleston all original registration books used in the last general county and state election, as corrected by the county court of said county, and the clerk of said city shall send the same to the various precincts of said city, as provided by law. After said registration books are delivered to said clerk of said city, no person shall add to the same any name, nor erase therefrom any name, and any person found guilty of either adding or erasing one or more names shall be guilty of a felony and confined in the penitentiary not less than one, nor more than five years. As soon as may be possible after the holding of any primary, general or special municipal election not coinciding with a state or county election, said original registration books shall be returned by the clerk of said city to the clerk of the county court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, who shall carefully preserve all of said registration books for such use as is required by law.

(Acts 1933, Reg. Sess., ch. 117; Ord. No. 7597, 10-21-2013)

Editor's note

The provisions of Charter § 9-a are superseded by W. Va. Code § 3-2-1 et seq. See W. Va. Code §§ 8-1-6, 8-5-13.