2009 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 60A. UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT
ARTICLE 10. METHAMPHETAMINE LABORATORY ERADICATION ACT.
§60A-10-13 Exposure of first responders to manufacture methamphetamine; penalties.

§60A-10-13. Exposure of first responders to manufacture methamphetamine; penalties.
Any person who, as a result of or in the course of unlawfully and intentionally manufacturing methamphetamine, causes a police officer, probation officer, humane officer, emergency medical service personnel, firefighter, state fire marshal or employee, division of forestry employee, county correctional employee or state correctional employee acting in his or her official capacity to ingest, inhale or be dermally exposed to a chemical, product, byproduct, residue or substance involved in the manufacture or attempted manufacture of such controlled substance, without prior knowledge of such, and thereby causes bodily injury to such persons, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars and confined in a correctional facility for not less than one year nor more than five years. A violation of this section shall constitute a separate offense from the manufacture or attempt to manufacture methamphetamine.