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§53-6-1. Special receiver -- Appointment generally; bond; notice of application for appointment.
A court of equity may, in any proper case pending therein, in which funds or property of a corporation, firm or person is involved, and there is danger of the loss or misappropriation of the same or a material part thereof, appoint a special receiver of such funds or property, or of the rents, issues and profits thereof, or both, who shall give bond with good security to be approved by the court, or by the clerk thereof, for the faithful performance of his trust, and for paying over and accounting for, according to law, all such moneys that may come into his hands by virtue of his appointment. But no such receiver shall be appointed of any real estate, or of the rents, issues and profits thereof, until reasonable notice of the application therefor has been given to the owner or tenant thereof. A judge of such court in vacation may appoint such receiver of any such property, except real estate, and the rents, issues and profits thereof.

§53-6-2. Same -- Appointment by order of supreme court of appeals or judge thereof in vacation.
When a circuit court, or judge thereof, shall refuse the appointment of a receiver as aforesaid, a copy of the orders entered in the proceedings in court, and the original papers presented to it, or the judge in vacation, with the order of refusal, may be presented to the supreme court of appeals, or a judge thereof in vacation, who may thereupon order the appointment to be made, and cause such order to be certified to the clerk of such circuit court, who shall record the same in his chancery order book, whereupon it shall be the duty of such circuit court or judge to appoint such receiver, and require the bond as hereinbefore provided.

§53-6-3. Same -- Accounting.
Any special receiver shall render an account of the funds or property of which he is receiver when ordered to do so by the court wherein the cause in which he is receiver is pending, or by the judge thereof in vacation. Such accounting shall be before such court or judge, or before any commissioner in chancery of such court directed by such court or judge to take and state such account, and shall constitute a part of the proceedings in such cause.

Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2012 1st Special Session