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Senate Bill No. 30
(By Senator Craigo)
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[Introduced January 12, 2000; 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
thirty-eight-a, relating to establishing criminal penalties
for the misuse of a roadside newspaper or periodical
receptacle.
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
thirty-eight-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY.
§61-3-38a. Misuse of newspaper or periodical route receptacles;
penalty.
Any person who, without the express consent of the customer,
places into a roadside receptacle placed by a newspaper or
periodical business to facilitate home delivery of a designated
newspaper or periodical anything other than a paid advertisement
in the newspaper or periodical for which placement of the
receptacle was caused or other item approved for placement
therein by the entity placing the receptacle shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not
more than one hundred dollars.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to limit or eliminate
dissemination of unwanted or unintended materials in roadside
delivery receptacles placed at customers residences by a
newspaper or similar entity. The offense is a misdemeanor and
the penalty is a fine not to exceed $100.
This Section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.)