ENGROSSED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 201
(By Senator Love)
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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;
reported January 28, 2000.]
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A BILL to amend article one, chapter twenty-five of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
eleven-e, relating to prohibiting the unauthorized use of a
uniform, badge, identification card or other insignia of the
division of corrections and the impersonation of its
employees; and establishing a criminal penalty.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article one, chapter twenty-five of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section eleven-
e, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. ORGANIZATION AND INSTITUTIONS.
§25-1-11e. Unauthorized use of uniform, badge, identification card
or other insignia; impersonation of employee; and penalty.
Any person who shall, with the intent to deceive another
person, falsely represent himself or herself to be an employee or
officer of the division of corrections or to be under the order or
direction of any such person, or any person not an employee or
officer of the division who shall wear the uniform prescribed for
such persons or the badge or other insignia adopted for use by such
persons with the intent to deceive another person, is guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more
than two hundred dollars or confined in the county or regional jail
for not more than six months, or both.