ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 201
(Senator Love, original sponsor)
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[Passed February 9, 2000; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT 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 member; and penalty.
(a) No person who is not an officer or employee of the
division of corrections, and no officer or employee of the division
who is not authorized to do so, may, with intent to deceive, wear,
use, order to be used or worn, copy or imitate in any respect or
manner the uniform, badge, identification card or other insignia
prescribed for employees of the division.
(b) No person who is not an officer or employee of the
division of corrections may falsely represent himself or herself to
be an officer or employee of the division of corrections or to be
under the order or direction of any officer or employee of the
division.
(c) Any person who violates the provisions of subsection (a)
or (b) of this section 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 fined and confined.