Senate Bill No. 314
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[Introduced February 6, 1996; referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend article three, chapter sixty-one of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
fifty-two, relating to taking or injuring saw logs;
receiving or injuring stolen logs; and providing for
penalties.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article three, chapter sixty-one of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
fifty-two, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY.
§61-3-52. Taking or injuring saw logs; receiving or injuring
stolen logs.
(a) Any person who willfully and without authority takes any
saw logs and removes or attempts to remove the logs, or who cuts
or splits the logs or otherwise destroys or injures them, is
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, where the
value of the logs exceeds one hundred dollars, shall be
imprisoned for not less than three months nor more than one year
and fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars; and where the value of the logs is one hundred dollars
or less, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more
than eighty dollars.
(b) Any person who purchases, receives or secretes saw logs
so taken or removed, or who cuts or otherwise injures logs so
taken or removed, knowing them to have been so taken or removed,
is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished as prescribed in
subsection (a).
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide for a penalty
for the taking or injuring of saw logs and for receiving or
injuring stolen logs.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.