2013 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 29. MISCELLANEOUS BOARDS AND OFFICERS
ARTICLE 2. GEODETIC AND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
§29-2-3. Unlawful interference with signal, monument or building; penalty.
If any person or persons shall wilfully injure, deface or remove any signal, monument, or building, or any appendage thereto, erected, used or constructed under and by virtue of the act of Congress aforesaid, or any act or acts supplemental thereto, such persons so offending shall severally forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars with the costs of suit, to be sued for and recovered by any person who shall first prosecute the same before any justice of the peace of the county where the person so offending may reside, and shall also be liable to pay the amount of damages thereby sustained, to be recovered with the cost of the suit in an action on the case, in the name and for the use of the United States of America, in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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