18A-4-1 Definitions
18A-4-1a Minimum salary for a registered professional nurse employed by the board, who has less than a bachelor’s degree
18A-4-2 State minimum salaries for teachers
18A-4-2a State minimum salary bonus for classroom teachers with national board certification
18A-4-2b State minimum salary supplement and educational expense reimbursement for professional personnel with recognized national certification in speech-language pathology, audiology, counseling, school psychology or school nursing
18A-4-2c Teacher mentoring increment for classroom teachers with national board certification who teach and mentor at persistently low performing schools
18A-4-3 State minimum annual salary increments for principals and assistant principals
18A-4-4 Minimum salary schedule for teachers having specialized training
18A-4-5 State salary supplement
18A-4-5a County salary supplements for teachers
18A-4-5b County salary supplements for school service personnel
18A-4-6 Change in classification
18A-4-7 Substitute teachers pay
18A-4-7a Employment, promotion, and transfer of professional personnel; qualifications
18A-4-7b Calculation of seniority for professional personnel
18A-4-7c Summer employment of professional educators
18A-4-8 Employment term and class titles of service personnel; definitions
18A-4-8a Service personnel minimum monthly salaries
18A-4-8b Seniority rights for school service personnel
18A-4-8c Seniority rights for personnel employed by multicounty vocational centers
18A-4-8d Consolidation of services and seniority rights for administrative personnel
18A-4-8e Competency testing for service personnel; and recertification testing for bus operators
18A-4-8f Seniority rights, school consolidation
18A-4-8g Determination of seniority for service personnel
18A-4-8h Limitation on number of school service personnel positions to be held by an employee
18A-4-8i Seniority rights for professional educators and school service personnel in cases of intercounty transfer arrangements
18A-4-9 Payment of teachers and other employees; withholdings
18A-4-10 Personal leave for illness and other causes; leave banks; substitutes
18A-4-10a Bonus for unused days of personal leave
18A-4-10c Personal leave banks for care givers
18A-4-10d Use of personal leave days by surviving spouse in certain circumstances
18A-4-10f Leave donation program
18A-4-11 Group insurance
18A-4-12 Tax deferred investments for teachers and other employees
18A-4-13 Compliance with this article
18A-4-14 Duty-free lunch and daily planning period for certain employees
18A-4-15 Employment of service personnel substitutes
18A-4-16 Extracurricular assignments
18A-4-17 Health and other facility employee salaries
18A-4-18 Department of education certified staff salaries
18A-4-19 Alteration of contract
18A-4-20 Moving expenses allowed for teachers laid off in counties due to lack of need
18A-4-21 Posting of position opening following death of incumbent
18A-4-22 Prohibition on aiding and abetting sexual abuse

Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 18A > Article 4 - Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Central office administrator: means a superintendent, associate superintendent, assistant superintendent and other professional educators who are charged with administering and supervising the whole or some assigned part of the total program of the countywide school system. See West Virginia Code 18A-1-1
  • Classroom teacher: means a professional educator who has a direct instructional or counseling relationship with students and who spends the majority of his or her time in this capacity. See West Virginia Code 18A-1-1
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, or figures, whether by printing, engraving, writing, or otherwise. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Judgment: includes decrees and orders for the payment of money, or the conveyance or delivery of land or personal property, or some interest therein, or any undertaking, bond or recognizance which has the legal effect of a judgment. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Offense: includes every act or omission for which a fine, forfeiture, or punishment is imposed by law. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Principal: means a professional educator who functions as an agent of the county board and has responsibility for the supervision, management and control of a school or schools within the guidelines established by the county board. See West Virginia Code 18A-1-1
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • professional personnel: means those persons or employees who meet the certification requirements of the state, licensing requirements of the state, or both, and includes a professional educator and other professional employee. See West Virginia Code 18A-1-1
  • Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • School personnel: means all personnel employed by a county board whether employed on a regular full-time basis, an hourly basis or otherwise. See West Virginia Code 18A-1-1
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Supervisor: means a professional educator who is responsible for working primarily in the field with professional and other personnel in instructional and other school improvement. See West Virginia Code 18A-1-1
  • Supplemental appropriation: Budget authority provided in an appropriations act in addition to regular or continuing appropriations already provided. Supplemental appropriations generally are made to cover emergencies, such as disaster relief, or other needs deemed too urgent to be postponed until the enactment of next year's regular appropriations act.