W. Va. Code § 17C-4-17

Current through 2024 First Special Session
Section 17C-4-17 - Notification of landowner when accident damages livestock fence

Whenever a member of the West Virginia State Police, Natural Resources police officer, a member of a county sheriff's department, or a municipal police officer, in the regular course of their duties, reports on a crash that causes damage to any fence that could contain livestock, that officer must make a reasonable attempt following the accident to contact either the landowner or any known lessee of the land to alert the landowner or lessee of the fence damage.

W. Va. Code § 17C-4-17

Added by 2021 Acts, ch. 267 (SB 359), eff. 7/8/2021.