{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-21-2-4","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 21-2-4","heading":"PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES","body":"§21-2-4.\"Employment agent\" defined.\nThe term \"employment agent\" shall mean and include all persons, firms, corporations or associations, excepting municipal corporations, church and charitable associations, which furnish, to persons seeking employment, information enabling or tending to enable such persons to secure the same, or which furnish, to employers seeking laborers or help of any kind, information enabling or tending to enable such employers to secure such help, or shall keep a register of persons seeking employment or help as aforesaid, whether such agents conduct their operations in a fixed place of business, on the streets, or as transients, and also whether such operations constitute the principal business of such agents or only as a side line or incidental to other business.","path":["CHAPTER 21. LABOR","ARTICLE 2. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/21-2-4/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:25:41Z","sha256":"54a6789c77ab40c1bbdd7984a4f2ac2c3d1525782f509e383d5efdf5c6119831","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-21-2-3","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-21-2-5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}