West Virginia Code § 24-4-2

Penalty for falsifying, destroying or altering entries and for making false
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statements.
Any person, officer, agent or employee of any public utility subject to this chapter who shall
knowingly or wilfully make any false entries in the accounts, account books, records or
memoranda kept by any public utility, or who shall knowingly or wilfully destroy or mutilate
any account books, record or memoranda useful for the enforcement or admeinistration of
this chapter by the commission, or who shall alter or by any other means or device falsify the
record of any such accounts, account books, records or memoranda, orr who shall knowingly
or wilfully neglect or fail to make full, true and correct entries of or in such account, account
book, record or memoranda of all the facts and transactions appertaining to such public
utility, or who shall falsely make any statement required to be made to the commission, shall
be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, sthall be confined in the
penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five years.

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