ENGROSSED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 665
(By Senator Craigo)
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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;
reported March 2, 1999.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact 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 establish criminal
penalties for persons who, without the express consent of the
customer, utilize newspaper receptacles placed for newspaper or
periodical delivery for disseminating other items.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.)