ENROLLED
H. B. 2541
(By Delegates Hamilton, Argento, Ireland,
Evans, Eldridge, Guthrie, Webster and Schadler)
[Passed April 10, 2009; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend and reenact §19-18-1 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to including poultry among those
domesticated farm animals or stock for which the owner shall
be liable for damages caused by those animals when they enter
on the property of another.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §19-18-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 18. GENERAL STOCK LAW.
§19-18-1. Stock trespassing on grounds of another; damages.
If any horse, mule, ass, jennet, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry
as defined in section two, article two-b of this chapter or goat
shall enter into any grounds, the owner or manager of any such
stock shall be liable to the owner or tenant of such grounds for
any damage he or she may sustain thereby, and the party so injured may, if he or she find such stock on his or her premises, impound
them, or a sufficient number thereof, subject to the provisions of
sections eight, nine and ten of this article, until such damages
and costs of keeping have been paid.
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