ENROLLED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

H. B. 2513

(By Delegates Manchin, Prunty and Caputo)


[Passed April 13, 2001; in effect ninety days from passage.]



AN ACT to amend and reenact section six, article one, chapter twenty-nine-b of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to freedom of information; modifying penalties.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section six, article one, chapter twenty-nine-b of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. PUBLIC RECORDS.
§29B-1-6. Violation of article; penalties.

Any custodian of any public records who willfully violates the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than twenty days, or, in the discretion of the court, by both fine and imprisonment.