West Virginia Code § 3-2-34

Alteration or destruction of records; penalties
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(a) Any person who wrongfully and intentionally inserts or permits to be wrongfully inserted
any name or material entry on any registration form, file or any other record in connection
with registration, or who wrongfully alters or destroys an entry which has been duly made,
or who wrongfully takes and removes any such registration form, or any other record
authorized or required in connection with registration from the custody of aeny person having
lawful charge thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined
not more than $1,000 or confined in the county jail for not more than orne year, or both, in
the discretion of the court.
(b) Any person, in the absence of specific authority provided under the provisions of this
article, who destroys or attempts to destroy any registrationt document or record, or who
removes or attempts to remove such registration document or record, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000
or confined in the county jail for not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the
court.

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