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Home » US Law » 2022 West Virginia Code » Chapter 61. Crimes and Their Punishment » Article 8. Crimes Against Chastity, Morality and Decency

§61-8-27a. Use of False Identification, etc., by Person Under Age; Penalty

Any person who exhibits or displays a false or erroneous birth certificate, draft card, registration card or certificate, license, or identification card or certificate of any kind or character, or who exhibits or displays any certificate, card or license of any kind or character not his own, for the purpose of purchasing or drinking beer […]

§61-8-28. Criminal Invasion of Privacy; Penalties

(a) For the purposes of this section, the words or terms defined in this subsection have the meanings ascribed to them. These definitions are applicable unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) “A person fully or partially nude” means a male or female who is either clothed or unclothed so that: (A) […]

§61-8-29. Criminal Loitering by Persons on Supervised Release

(a) Any person serving a period of supervised release of ten years or more pursuant to the provision of section twenty-six, article twelve, chapter sixty-two of this code who loiters within one thousand feet of the property line of the residence or workplace of a victim of a sexually violent offense for which the person […]

§61-8-31. Therapeutic Deception; Penalties

(a) In this section, unless a different meaning plainly is required: (1) “Client” or “patient” means a person who is being treated clinically or medically by a psychotherapist for more than one session or initial visit.

§61-8-6. Detention of Person in Place of Prostitution; Penalty

Whoever shall by any means keep, hold, detain or restrain any person in a house of prostitution or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed; or whoever shall, directly or indirectly, keep, hold, detain or restrain, or attempt to keep, hold, detain or restrain, in any house of prostitution or other place where prostitution […]

§61-8-9. Indecent Exposure

(a) A person is guilty of indecent exposure when such person intentionally exposes his or her sex organs or anus or the sex organs or anus of another person, or intentionally causes such exposure by another or engages in any overt act of sexual gratification, and does so under circumstances in which the person knows […]

§61-8-9a. Child Abuse; Education; Curriculum

The Legislature finds the best way to avoid child abuse in West Virginia is to educate our young people on the skills of parenting; therefore, the Legislature directs the commissioner of the department of health, the state Superintendent of Schools and the commissioner of the department of human services to develop a curriculum to be […]