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WEST virginia Legislature

2018 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 315

By Senators Jeffries, Baldwin, Beach, Ojeda, Prezioso, Romano, Smith, Facemire, Stollings, Cline, Boso, and Plymale

[Introduced January 18, 2018; Referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary
]

A BILL to amend and reenact §61-1-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to increasing the misdemeanor penalty for impersonation of a law-enforcement officer or official to include the possibility of confinement in jail.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:


ARTICLE 1. CRIMES AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.


§61-1-9. Impersonation of law-enforcement officer or official; penalty.

Any person who shall falsely represent falsely represents himself or herself to be a law-enforcement officer or law-enforcement official or to be under the order or direction of any such person, or any person not a law-enforcement officer or law-enforcement official who shall wear  wears the uniform prescribed for such those persons, or the badge or other insignia adopted for use by such those persons with the intent to deceive another person, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 or confined in jail for a period not exceeding six months, or both fined and confined.

For purposes of this section, the terms law-enforcement officer and law-enforcement official shall be is defined by §30-29-1 of this code, except that such the terms shall do not include members of the division of public safety State Police and shall do not include individuals hired by nonpublic entities for the provision of security services.


 

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to add the possibility of jail time to the offense of impersonating a law-enforcement officer or official.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.

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