West Virginia Code § 61-10-30

Open water wells prohibited
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It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, maintain or allow any abandoned or currently
used water well upon any land in which such person has any right to possession as owner,
tenant or otherwise, which does not have affixed thereto a cover of sufficient strength to
prevent any person from accidentally falling into such well.

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