ENGROSSED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 487
(By Senators Craigo and Rowe)
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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;
reported February 27, 2002.]
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A BILL to amend article three, chapter twenty-nine of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
twenty-one-a, relating to creating the offense of damaging
fire safety systems or equipment in a jail or correctional
facility; and penalties.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article three, chapter twenty-nine of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
twenty-one-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ACT.
§29-3-21a. Damaging fire safety equipment in prisons and jails;
penalties.
A person who willfully destroys, damages or disables a fire safety system or fire safety equipment, including, but not limited
to, a fire extinguisher, fire alarm, sprinkler system or standpipe
system, situated in a county or regional jail or state correctional
facility is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be incarcerated in a state correctional facility, county or
regional jail for not less than six months nor more than one year.