W. Va. Code § 8-22-27b

Current through 2024 First Special Session
Section 8-22-27b - Fraud; penalties; and repayment

Any person who knowingly makes any false statement or who falsifies or permits to be falsified any record of a municipal policemen's or municipal firemen's pension and relief fund in any attempt to defraud that system is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or confined in jail not more than one year, or both fined and confined. Any increased benefit received by any person as a result of the falsification or fraud shall be returned to the fund on demand by the board of trustees or by demand of the Municipal Pensions Oversight Board.

W. Va. Code § 8-22-27b

Added by 2017 Acts, ch. 158 (HB 2601), eff. 7/7/2017.