COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
H. B. 2235
(By Delegate Farris)

(Originating in the House Committee on the Judiciary)

[March 30, 1993]

A BILL to amend and reenact section nineteen, article four-c, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to emergency medical services; making it a misdemeanor to attack, obstruct, hinder or interfere with emergency medical services or rescue personnel responding to an emergency or returning to their station following an emergency response; and providing criminal penalties therefor.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section nineteen, article four-c, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 4C. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ACT.

§16-4C-19. Attacking or obstructing emergency medical services or rescue personnel.

Any person who is not the patient who knowingly or intentionally attacks, hinders, obstructs or interferes with emergency medical services or rescue personnel performing orattempting to perform functions or duties as emergency medical services or rescue personnel, or returning to their station after performing those functions or duties, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or confined in the county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or both fined and confined.