Bill Text: WV HB2253 | 2021 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to forgery and other crimes concerning lottery tickets

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-05-20 - Chapter 87, Acts, Regular Session, 2021 [HB2253 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2021-HB2253-Enrolled.html

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WEST virginia legislature

2021 regular session

ENROLLED

House Bill 2253

By Delegate Steele

[Passed April 5, 2021; in effect ninety days from passage.]

 

AN ACT to amend and reenact §29-22-12 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to forgery and other crimes concerning lottery tickets; requiring any sentencing be by determinate sentence.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 22. STATE LOTTERY ACT.

§29-22-12. Crimes; forgery, counterfeiting, etc. of lottery tickets; penalties.

Any person who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, passes, or counterfeits a lottery ticket is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or be confined in a state correctional facility for not more than one year, or both fined and confined.