West Virginia Code Chapter 47. Regulation of Trade § 47-11B-9. Bond required

No license shall be issued unless the applicant files with the commissioner a bond with corporate surety payable to the State of West Virginia conditioned upon the faithful observance of all the provisions of this article, the payment to any municipality or the State of all taxes due and owing or which may become due and the indemnifying of any purchaser at such sale who suffers any loss by reason of misrepresentation made in connection with such sale: Provided, That the aggregate liability of the surety for all breaches of the conditions of the bond shall in no event exceed the amount of said bond. The amount of said bond shall be determined as follows: Five percent of the first one hundred thousand dollars of the retail value of all the goods, wares and merchandise to be offered at such sale, two percent of the next four hundred thousand dollars and one percent of the balance. Said bond shall be approved as to form and sufficiency by the prosecuting attorney or his assistant of the county in which such sale is to be conducted.