WEST VIRGINIA CODE
WVC 17 A- 8 - 10
§17A-8-10. Unlawful retention of rented or leased vehicle after
notice.
Any person who, after renting or leasing a motor vehicle
under an agreement in writing which provides for the return of
said vehicle to a particular place at a particular time, shall
fail to return the vehicle to said place within the time
specified, and is thereafter served with a written notice, or
upon whom oral demand is thereafter personally made, to return
said vehicle to the place specified in the written agreement
within seventy-two hours from the time of the service of notice
or personal communication of such demand, and who fails to return
said vehicle to the lessor within said period, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, may be confined in jail for a
period of not more than one year or be fined not more than five
hundred dollars or both. The notice hereinabove provided for may
be served in the same manner that any other notice may now be
served under existing statutes.
Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2012 1st Special Session