2010 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 14. CLAIMS DUE AND AGAINST THE STATE
ARTICLE 2B. DISTRIBUTION OF CRIME PROFITS.
§14-2B-11. Failure of defendant or person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity contracting with defendant to provide notice to prosecutor or pay over moneys to prosecutor as required by this article; civil penalty of treble damages.
§14-2B-11. Failure of defendant or person, firm, corporation,
partnership, association or other legal entity
contracting with defendant to provide notice to
prosecutor or pay over moneys to prosecutor as
required by this article; civil penalty of treble
damages.
Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary,
if any defendant or any person, firm, corporation, partnership,
association or other legal entity which knowingly contracts for,
pays, or agrees to pay to a defendant, any crime profits, as
defined in section one of this article, fails to submit a copy of
such contract to the prosecutor of the county in which the
defendant is charged with or is being prosecuted or was prosecuted
for the commission of the crime, or fails to pay over to the
prosecutor any moneys which would otherwise, by the terms of such
contract, be owing to the defendant, such defendant or such person,
firm, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity
shall be civilly liable in the interpleader action authorized by
this article for treble damages to each party in whose favor
judgment is entered.
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