A BILL to amend and reenact section seventeen, article five, chapter sixty-one of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to making it a crime to knowingly give false information to a county or municipal officer.

Any person who by threats, menaces, acts or otherwise, shall forcibly or illegally hinder, obstruct, or oppose, or attempt to obstruct or oppose, or shall counsel, advise or invite others to hinder, obstruct or oppose intentionally causes or attempts to cause, any officer in this state (whether including state, county, municipal, civil or and/or military personnel) to be menaced, hindered, obstructed or opposed in any way in the lawful exercise or discharge of his such officer's official duty, shall, for every such offense, be or who knowingly gives false or misleading information to any such officer is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, and may, in the discretion of the court, be imprisoned not exceeding one year.