West Virginia Senate Bill 266 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-08 - To Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to make it a crime to place graffiti on real and personal property. The bill defines the offenses and a term. The bill establishes misdemeanor and, felony criminal penalties. The bill provides for suspension of driver’s license in certain circumstances. The bill provides for sentencing of community service. The bill provides that affected property owners may institute a civil action for recovery of damages in an amount up to three times the loss or the cost of restoration, attorneys’ fees and costs. The bill provides that civil liability is not precluded by criminal provisions.

Criminalizing graffiti on real and personal property

Sen. Evan Jenkins [D]

Sen. Robert Plymale [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-08	Senate	To Judiciary
2014-01-08	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2014-01-08	Senate	To Judiciary
2014-01-08	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB2156 (Similar To) 2014-01-09 - To House Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
61	3	59	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=266&year=2014&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb266%20intr.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=RS&i=266