West Virginia
West Virginia Code — Chapter 61, Crimes and Their Punishment
477 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 61-1-1 — Treason defined; degree of proof
- § 61-1-2 — Punishment
- § 61-1-3 — Failure to give information of treason; penalty
- § 61-1-4 — Attempt to justify or uphold invasion or insurrection; penalty
- § 61-1-5 — Unlawful speeches, publications and communications
- § 61-1-6 — § 61-1-6
- § 61-1-7 — Penalty for unlawful speeches, publications and communications
- § 61-1-8 — Desecration of flag; penalty
- § 61-1-9 — Impersonation of law-enforcement officer or official; penalty
- § 61-10-1 — Keeping or exhibiting gaming table, machine, or device; penalty; seizure of table, machine or device; forfeiture of money used in such gaming
- § 61-10-10 — Poolroom defined; selling tickets and chances in lottery; penalty
- § 61-10-11 — Lotteries or raffles; penalty
- § 61-10-12 — Proceeds of lottery forfeited to the state
- § 61-10-13 — Associations and companies trading as bank without authority of law; penalty
- § 61-10-14 — Laws on gaming, lotteries and unchartered banks remedial
- § 61-10-15 — Pecuniary interest of county and district officers, teachers and school officials in contracts; exceptions; offering or giving compensation; pe
- § 61-10-16 — Picture or theatrical act reflecting upon any race or class of citizens; penalty
- § 61-10-17 — Lobbying on floor of Legislature; ejection of lobbyist; penalty; jurisdiction
- § 61-10-18 — § 61-10-18
- § 61-10-19 — Cornering market in foods or other necessities of life; penalty
- § 61-10-2 — Permitting gaming table or device on premises; penalty
- § 61-10-20 — Failure of employers to provide certain benefits for employees
- § 61-10-21 — Unlawful use of prefix “Doctor” or “Dr.” penalty
- § 61-10-22 — Bribery of participants in professional or amateur games and horse racing; penalty
- § 61-10-23 — Debt pooling; definition; offenses; penalty; jurisdiction; pleading and proof
- § 61-10-24 — § 61-10-24
- § 61-10-25 — § 61-10-25
- § 61-10-26 — § 61-10-26
- § 61-10-27 — § 61-10-27
- § 61-10-28 — § 61-10-28
- § 61-10-29 — § 61-10-29
- § 61-10-3 — Unlawful to act as doorkeeper, guard or watch for keeper of gaming table or device; penalty
- § 61-10-30 — Open water wells prohibited
- § 61-10-31 — Conspiracy; construction of section; penalties
- § 61-10-32 — Unlawful contact with a Division of Corrections employee or member of the Parole Board; penalty
- § 61-10-33 — Prohibition against selling a pure caffeine product
- § 61-10-34 — Critical Infrastructure Protection Act; prohibiting certain acts, including trespass and conspiracy to trespass against property designated a c
- § 61-10-4 — Playing or betting at gaming tables and devices; playing or betting on games at hotels and public places; penalty
- § 61-10-5 — Betting on games of chance; furnishing money or thing of value therefor; penalty
- § 61-10-6 — Permitting gaming at hotels; penalty
- § 61-10-7 — Presumption against hotelkeeper
- § 61-10-8 — Gaming at outhouse of hotel; penalty
- § 61-10-9 — Cheating at gaming; penalty
- § 61-11-1 — Classification of offenses
- § 61-11-10 — Venue of offenses
- § 61-11-11 — Offense committed on county boundary
- § 61-11-12 — Venue of offense committed in more than one county
- § 61-11-13 — Former acquittal on merits
- § 61-11-14 — Acquittal for variance or insufficient indictment
- § 61-11-15 — Modes of conviction of felony
- § 61-11-16 — Term of imprisonment for felony; indeterminate sentence
- § 61-11-17 — Court to fix imprisonment and fine for misdemeanor
- § 61-11-18 — Punishment for second or third offense of felony
- § 61-11-19 — Procedure in trial of persons for second or third offense
- § 61-11-2 — Capital punishment abolished
- § 61-11-20 — § 61-11-20
- § 61-11-21 — Cumulative sentences
- § 61-11-22 — Pretrial diversion agreements; conditions; drug court programs
- § 61-11-23 — Punishment for juvenile convicted as an adult; eligibility for parole; factors to be considered prior to sentencing
- § 61-11-24 — Offender may have credit for term of confinement before conviction
- § 61-11-25 — Expungement of criminal records for those found not guilty of crimes or against whom charges have been dismissed; expungement of criminal recor
- § 61-11-26 — Expungement of certain criminal convictions; procedures; effect
- § 61-11-27 — Definition of law-enforcement officer
- § 61-11-3 — Punishment for common-law offenses
- § 61-11-4 — Corruption of blood and forfeiture of estate abolished
- § 61-11-5 — No merger of civil remedy by commission of felony
- § 61-11-6 — Punishment of principals in the second degree and accessories before and after the fact
- § 61-11-7 — Prosecution of accessories
- § 61-11-8 — Attempts; classification and penalties therefor
- § 61-11-9 — Limitation of prosecution; lost indictment
- § 61-11A-1 — Legislative findings and purpose
- § 61-11A-2 — Testimony of crime victim at sentencing hearing
- § 61-11A-3 — Victim impact statement; when required; contents; use; right of defendant to review and present evidence
- § 61-11A-4 — Restitution; when ordered
- § 61-11A-5 — Restitution; procedure for issuing order
- § 61-11A-6 — State guidelines for fair treatment of crime victims and witnesses in the criminal justice system
- § 61-11A-7 — Severability
- § 61-11A-8 — Notification to victim of offender's release, placement, or escape from custody
- § 61-11A-9 — Sexual Assault Victims" Bill of Rights
- § 61-11B-1 — § 61-11B-1
- § 61-11B-2 — § 61-11B-2
- § 61-11B-3 — § 61-11B-3
- § 61-11B-4 — § 61-11B-4
- § 61-11B-5 — § 61-11B-5
- § 61-12-1 — § 61-12-1
- § 61-12-10 — When autopsies made and by whom performed; records of date investigated; copies of records and information; reporting requirements
- § 61-12-11 — Exhumation; when ordered
- § 61-12-12 — Facilities and services available to medical examiners
- § 61-12-13 — Reports and records received as evidence; copies
- § 61-12-14 — County coroners; appointment, oath, etc.; duties; fees
- § 61-12-15 — Disposition of unidentified and unclaimed remains
- § 61-12-16 — Disposition of unidentified or unclaimed remains pursuant to legislative rule
- § 61-12-2 — § 61-12-2
- § 61-12-3 — Office of Chief Medical Examiner established; appointment, duties, etc., of Chief Medical Examiner; assistants and employees; promulgation of ru
- § 61-12-4 — Central office and laboratory
- § 61-12-5 — Certain salaries and expenses paid by state
- § 61-12-6 — Chief medical examiner may obtain additional services and facilities
- § 61-12-7 — Medical examiners
- § 61-12-8 — Certain deaths to be reported to medical examiners; failure to report deaths; investigations and reports; authority of medical examiners to admi
- § 61-12-9 — Permits required for cremation; fee
- § 61-12A-1 — Fatality and Mortality Review Team
- § 61-12A-2 — Responsibilities of the Fatality and Mortality Review Team
- § 61-12A-3 — Access to information; other agencies of government required to cooperate
- § 61-12A-4 — Confidentiality
- § 61-12B-1 — Purpose
- § 61-12B-2 — Definitions
- § 61-12B-3 — Creation of the Critical Incident Review Team and composition of members
- § 61-12B-4 — Responsibilities of the Critical Incident Review Team
- § 61-12B-5 — Reporting of the Critical Incident Review Team
- § 61-12B-6 — Access to information; other agencies of government required to cooperate
- § 61-12B-7 — Confidentiality
- § 61-13-1 — Findings
- § 61-13-2 — Definitions
- § 61-13-3 — Offenses
- § 61-13-4 — Premises used by organized criminal enterprises; nuisances; actions for injunction, abatement and damages; other remedies for unlawful use; exce
- § 61-13-5 — Forfeiture
- § 61-13-6 — Exempted activities; limitations on scope
- § 61-14-1 — Definitions
- § 61-14-2 — Human trafficking of an individual; aiding and abetting human trafficking; penalties
- § 61-14-3 — Use of forced labor; penalties
- § 61-14-4 — Use of persons in debt bondage; penalties
- § 61-14-5 — Sexual servitude; penalties
- § 61-14-6 — Patronizing a victim of sexual servitude; penalties
- § 61-14-7 — General provisions and other penalties
- § 61-14-8 — Immunity for minor victim of sex trafficking
- § 61-14-9 — Petition to vacate and expunge conviction or juvenile delinquency adjudication of sex trafficking victim
- § 61-15-1 — Definitions
- § 61-15-2 — Laundering through financial transactions
- § 61-15-3 — Forfeiture; disgorgement
- § 61-15-4 — Distinguishing transactions for prosecution purposes
- § 61-16-1 — Definitions
- § 61-16-2 — Prohibited use of an unmanned aerial vehicle; criminal penalties
- § 61-2-1 — First and second degree murder defined; allegations in indictment for homicide
- § 61-2-10 — Assault during commission of or attempt to commit a felony; penalty
- § 61-2-11 — Unlawful shooting at another in street, alley or public resort; penalty
- § 61-2-12 — Robbery or attempted robbery; penalties
- § 61-2-13 — Extortion or attempted extortion by threats; penalties
- § 61-2-14 — Abduction of person; kidnapping or concealing child; penalties
- § 61-2-15 — Assault, battery on school employees; penalties
- § 61-2-16 — Injury to passenger by person in charge of public conveyance or boat; penalty
- § 61-2-18 — § 61-2-18
- § 61-2-19 — § 61-2-19
- § 61-2-2 — Penalty for murder of first degree
- § 61-2-20 — § 61-2-20
- § 61-2-21 — § 61-2-21
- § 61-2-22 — § 61-2-22
- § 61-2-23 — § 61-2-23
- § 61-2-24 — § 61-2-24
- § 61-2-25 — § 61-2-25
- § 61-2-26 — Doors to be removed from abandoned refrigerators, freezers and other appliances; penalties
- § 61-2-27 — Required reporting of gunshot and other wounds
- § 61-2-28 — Domestic violence — criminal acts
- § 61-2-29 — Abuse or neglect of incapacitated adult; definitions; penalties
- § 61-2-3 — Penalty for murder of second degree
- § 61-2-30 — Recognizing an embryo or fetus as a distinct unborn victim of certain crimes of violence against the person
- § 61-2-4 — Voluntary manslaughter; penalty
- § 61-2-5 — Involuntary manslaughter; penalty
- § 61-2-6 — Homicide punishable within state if injury occurs within and death without, or vice versa
- § 61-2-7 — Attempt to kill or injure by poison; penalty
- § 61-2-8 — Abortion; penalty
- § 61-2-9 — Malicious or unlawful assault; assault; battery; penalties
- § 61-3-1 — Burning, etc., of a dwelling or outbuilding; first degree arson; penalty; definitions
- § 61-3-10 — § 61-3-10
- § 61-3-11 — Burglary; entry of dwelling or outhouse; criminal penalties
- § 61-3-12 — Entry of building other than dwelling; entry of railroad, traction or motorcar, steamboat, or other vessel; penalties; counts in indictment
- § 61-3-13 — Grand and petit larceny distinguished; penalties
- § 61-3-14 — Larceny of bank notes, checks, writings of value and book accounts; penalty
- § 61-3-15 — How value of notes, book accounts and other writings determined
- § 61-3-16 — Larceny of things savoring of realty
- § 61-3-17 — § 61-3-17
- § 61-3-18 — Receiving or transferring stolen goods
- § 61-3-19 — Bringing into this state, receiving or disposing of property stolen in another state; penalty
- § 61-3-2 — Burning, etc., of other buildings or structures; second degree arson; penalty
- § 61-3-20 — Embezzlement
- § 61-3-21 — Embezzlement by carrier or other person
- § 61-3-22 — Falsifying accounts; penalty
- § 61-3-23 — Destroying or concealing will; embezzlement by fiduciary; penalty
- § 61-3-24 — Obtaining money, property and services by false pretenses; disposing of property to defraud creditors; penalties
- § 61-3-25 — Casting away, destroying or interfering with floating craft or material; penalty
- § 61-3-26 — Interference with or destruction of buoys, signal lights or other aids to navigation; penalty
- § 61-3-27 — Malicious killing of animals by poison or otherwise; penalty
- § 61-3-28 — Offenses against railroad property and persons on railroad property; definitions
- § 61-3-29 — Damage or destruction of railroad or public utility company property, or real or personal property used for producing, generating, transmitting,
- § 61-3-3 — Burning personal property of another of the value of five hundred dollars or more; third degree arson; penalty
- § 61-3-30 — Removal, injury to or destruction of property, monuments designating land boundaries and of certain no trespassing signs; penalties
- § 61-3-31 — Damage to or destruction of property by bailee for hire or loan; penalty; damages recoverable in civil action
- § 61-3-32 — Removal out of county of property securing claim; penalties; fraudulent disposition of personal property in possession by virtue of lease; notic
- § 61-3-33 — Entry upon inclosed lands; penalty; liability for damages
- § 61-3-34 — Taking or injuring garden or field crops; penalties
- § 61-3-35 — Digging cultivated ginseng; penalty
- § 61-3-36 — Anchoring or beaching shanty boats on lands of another; penalties
- § 61-3-37 — False statement as to financial condition of person, firm or corporation; penalty
- § 61-3-38 — Publication of false advertisements; penalty
- § 61-3-39 — Obtaining property in return for worthless check; penalty
- § 61-3-4 — Attempt to commit arson; fourth degree arson; penalty
- § 61-3-40 — Fraudulently obtaining food or lodging; penalty
- § 61-3-41 — Employees conservators of the peace; special railroad policemen; penalties
- § 61-3-42 — Intoxication of person in charge of locomotive engine or car; penalties
- § 61-3-43 — Jumping on or off car or train in motion; driving vehicle upon track or bridge except at crossings; penalty
- § 61-3-44 — Procuring gas, water or electricity, by device, with intent to defraud; penalty