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Tax Civilian Division
Sheriff's Office Civilian Employee Photo Names
(Left to Right) Loretta Lusk, Cheryl Lawson, Teresa Meadows, Richard Lockhart, Angie Buckner, Shelia East, Roscoe Boone, Cheri Powers, Melinda Bailey, Paulette Myers, Charlotte Harvey, Jessica Morton, Winnie Haynes, Georgia (Sis) Bailey
Hours
of Operation: 8:30 am
until 4:30 pm Monday thru Friday excluding legal holidays
Phone
Numbers: (304)-487-8363,
487-8304, 487-8307 & 487-8415.
The
tax division of the Sheriff’s Office is responsible for the collection of real
estate and personal property taxes along with several additional services.
Pertinent
Tax Division Information
Tax
tickets are mailed in July and become delinquent if unpaid by April 30th
of the following year. They are published if not paid by May 10th.
Delinquent taxes cannot be removed from publication after payment if the
payment is made after September 10th. Three publications of
delinquency are required before the Sheriff’s Land Sale, which occurs usually
on the 2nd or 3rd Monday of November.
After October 15th of each year delinquent taxes must be paid
in cash, by money order or by certified check in order to keep the property from
being sold. No personal checks are
accepted after October 15th. Also,
no one can pay delinquent taxes on the morning of the sale date.
The latest day to pay the taxes to avoid the Sheriff’s Sale is the
Friday before the sale takes place. The
landowner can call five days after the sale to find out what happened to the
property.
Additional
Services As Follows Are Offered By The Tax Division
(a.)
License renewal for Class A vehicles – A $1.00 processing fee is added
to your regular registration fee when they are renewed in this office.
This fee can be avoided if you take your tax receipt and renew directly
with the Department of Motor Vehicles. Your
vehicle taxes are based on ownership on July 1st of the preceding
year for the current tax year. Your
preceding year’s tax receipts are used to renew tags until the renewals are
mailed in May of the following year. Please
also have your insurance information filled out before coming to the office to
purchase your renewal.
(b.)
Concealed Weapons Permit Applications are filed and processed. The fee is $75.00. If
the permit is granted the license fee is $18.00 and the permit is good for five
years.
(c.)
Garnishee payments are processed in the tax office if we are the holder
of the garnishee.
(d.)
Exonerations – If exoneration is approved by the County Commission, the
exoneration is turned in to our office for payment.
(e.)
Bankruptcy payments on real estate and personal property are made in this
office.
(f.)
Lien holders – Notification of delinquent tax lien holder sheets are
delivered to the tax office for notice to be sent to the person or business
holding the lien on individual properties.
(g.)
Serve as Administrator of non-administered estates
(h.)
Conservator Of Estates
(i.)
Serving of the following Civil Process Documents – Fee: $25.00
(1.)
Summons
(2.)
Subpoenas
(3.)
Writs of Execution
(4.)
Writs of Suggestion
(5.)
Garnishments
(6.)
Eviction
Notice for Wrongful Occupation
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