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No person playing at any game or making a wager, or having a share in any stake or wager, or betting on the hands or sides of others playing at any game or making a wager, shall cheat, or by fraudulent means win or acquire for himself or herself, or another, money or any other valuable thing.
(W.Va. Code § 61-10-9)
POOL ROOM, wherever used in this section, means any room where any pool ticket, chance voucher or certificate is sold entitling or purporting to entitle the holder or promisee thereof, or any other person, to money or other thing of value, contingent upon the result of any horse race, prizefight, game of chance, game of skill or science or other sport or contest. No person shall set up or promote, or be connected with or interested in the management or operation of any poolroom. The buying, selling or transferring of tickets or chances in any lottery is hereby prohibited.
(W.Va. Code § 61-10-10)
Except as otherwise provided by law, no person shall set up, promote or be concerned in managing or drawing a lottery or raffle for money or other thing of value; knowingly permit such lottery in any house under his or her control; knowingly permit money or other property to be raffled for in such house or to be won therein by throwing or using dice or by any other game of chance; knowingly permit the sale in such house of any chance or ticket, or share of a ticket in a lottery, or any writing, certificate, bill, token or other device purporting or intended to guarantee or assure to any person or to entitle him or her to a prize, or a share of or interest in a prize to be drawn in a lottery. No person shall, for himself, herself or any other person, buy, sell, transfer or have in his or her possession for the purpose of sale or with intent to exchange, negotiate or transfer, or aid in selling, exchanging, negotiating or transferring a chance or ticket, or a share of a ticket, in a lottery or any such writing, certificate, bill, token or device. However, this section shall not be deemed to apply to that certain type or form of lottery or raffle designated and familiarly known as “policy” or “numbers”.
(W.Va. Code § 61-10-11)
Section
517.01 Operating a place for or permitting or engaging in prostitution, lewdness or assignation
517.02 Detention of person in place of prostitution
517.03 Pandering
517.04 Pimping
517.05 Profane swearing and drunkenness
517.06 Obscene or harassing telephone calls
517.07 Indecent exposure
517.08 Invasion of privacy by looking
517.09 Preparation, distribution or exhibition of obscene matter to minors
517.10 Sale or display of obscene matter
517.99 Penalty
Cross References
Authority to prevent indecent practices, see W.Va. Code § 8-12-5(19)
Authority to prohibit distribution of obscene literature, see W.Va. Code § 8-12-5(17)
Authority to suppress houses of ill fame, see W.Va. Code § 8-12-5(18)
Equitable remedies, see W.Va. Code Art. 61-9
See sectional histories for similar state law
(a) No person shall keep, set up, maintain or operate any house, place, building, hotel, tourist camp, other structure or part thereof, or vehicle, trailer or other conveyance for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation; or own any place, house, hotel, tourist camp, other structure or part thereof, or trailer or other conveyance knowing the same to be used for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation, or let, sublet or rent any such place, premises or conveyance to another with knowledge or good reason to know of the intention of the lessee or rentee to use such place, premises or conveyance for prostitution, lewdness or assignation; or offer, or offer to secure another for the purpose of prostitution or for any other lewd or indecent act; or receive or offer or agree to receive any person into any house, place, building, hotel, tourist camp or other structure, or vehicle, trailer or other conveyance for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation, or permit any person to remain there for such purpose; or for another or others, direct, take or transport, or offer or agree to take or transport, or aid or assist in transporting any person to any house, place, building, hotel, tourist camp, other structure, vehicle, trailer or other conveyance, or to any other person with knowledge or having reasonable cause to believe that the purpose of such directing, taking or transporting is prostitution, lewdness or assignation; or aid, abet or participate in the doing of any acts herein prohibited. Whoever violates this subsection (a) shall, for a first offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) (1) No person shall engage in prostitution, lewdness or assignation, or solicit, induce, entice or procure another to commit an act of prostitution, lewdness or assignation; or reside in, enter or remain in any house, place, building, hotel, tourist camp or other structure, or enter or remain in any vehicle, trailer or other conveyance for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation; or aid, abet or participate in the doing of any of the acts herein prohibited.
(2) Whoever violates this subsection (b) shall, for a first or second offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(3) The subsequent offense provision shall apply only to the pimp, panderer, solicitor, operator or any person benefitting financially or otherwise from the earnings of a prostitute.
(c) All leases and agreements, oral or written, for letting, subletting or renting any house, place, building, hotel, tourist camp or other structure which is used for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation, shall be void from and after the date any person who is a party to such an agreement shall be convicted of an offense hereunder.
TOURIST CAMP includes any temporary or permanent buildings, tents, cabins or structures, or trailers or other vehicles which are maintained, offered or used for dwelling or sleeping quarters for pay.
(d) In the trial of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this section, testimony concerning the reputation or character of any house, place, building, hotel, tourist camp or other structure, and of the person or persons who reside in or frequent them, and of the defendant or defendants, shall be admissible in evidence in support of the charge.
(W.Va. Code § 61-8-5)
(a) No person shall, by any means, keep, hold, detain or restrain any person in a house of prostitution or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed; shall, directly or indirectly, keep, hold, detain or restrain or attempt to keep, hold, detain or restrain, in any house of prostitution or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, any person by any means, for the purpose of compelling such person, directly or indirectly, to pay, liquidate or cancel any debt, dues or obligations incurred or said to have been incurred by such person.
(b) Whoever violates this section shall, for a first offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor if the person so kept, held, detained or restrained under this section is not a minor.
(W.Va. Code § 61-8-6)
(a) (1) No person shall procure an inmate for a house of prostitution, or by promises, threats, violence or by any device or scheme, cause, induce, persuade or encourage a person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution, or shall procure a place as inmate in a house of prostitution for a person. No person shall, by promises, threats, violence or any device or scheme cause, induce, persuade or encourage an inmate of a house of prostitution to remain therein as such inmate; or shall, by fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, procure any person to become an inmate of a house of ill fame, to enter any place in which prostitution is encouraged or allowed within the municipality, or to come into or leave the municipality for the purpose of prostitution, or shall procure any person to become an inmate of a house of ill fame within the municipality or to come into or leave the municipality for the purpose of prostitution; or shall receive or give or agree to receive or give any money or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure any person to become an inmate of a house of ill fame within the municipality, or to come into or leave the municipality for the purpose of prostitution.
(2) It shall not be a defense to prosecution for any of the acts prohibited in this section that any part of such act or acts shall have been committed outside of the municipality, and the offense shall in such case be deemed and alleged to have been committed and the offender tried and punished in the municipality or county in which the prostitution was intended to be practiced, or in which the offense was consummated, or any overt act in furtherance of the offense was committed.
(3) Any such person shall be a competent witness in any prosecution under this section to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction, or as to conversation with the accused, or by the accused with another person or persons in his or her presence, notwithstanding his or her having married the accused before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this section, whether called as a witness during the existence of the marriage or after its dissolution. The act or state of marriage shall not be a defense to any violation of this section.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor for the first offense unless the inmate referred to in this section is a minor.
(W.Va. Code § 61-8-7)
(a) No person, knowing another person to be a prostitute, shall live or derive support or maintenance, in whole or in part, from the earnings or proceeds of the prostitution of such prostitute, or from money loaned or advanced to or charged against such prostitution by any keeper or manager or inmate of a house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, or shall tout or receive compensation for touting for such prostitution. A prostitute shall be a competent witness in any prosecution hereunder to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or conversation with the accused, or by the accused with another person or persons in the presence of the prostitute, even if the prostitute may have married the accused before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this section, whether called as a witness during the existence of the marriage or after its dissolution.
(b) Whoever violates this section shall, for a first offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor unless the prostitute referred to in this section is a minor.
(W.Va. Code § 61-8-8)
(a) No person with intent to harass or abuse another by means of telephone shall:
(1) Make any comment, request, suggestion or proposal which is obscene;
(2) Make a telephone call, whether or not conversation ensues, without disclosing his or her identity and with intent to harass any person at the called number;
(3) Make or cause the telephone of another repeatedly or continuously to ring, with intent to harass any person at the called number;
(4) Make repeated telephone calls, during which conversation ensues, with intent to harass any person at the called number; or
(5) Threaten to commit a crime against any person or property.
(b) No person shall knowingly permit any telephone under his or her control to be used for any purpose prohibited by this section.
(c) Any offense committed under this section may be deemed to have occurred at the place at which the telephone call was made, or the place at which the telephone call was received.
(W.Va. Code § 61-8-16)
No person shall intentionally expose his or her sex organs or anus or the sex organs or anus of another person, or intentionally cause such exposure by another or engage in any overt act of sexual gratification, under circumstances in which the person knows that the conduct is likely to cause affront or alarm.
(W.Va. Code § 61-8B-10)
No person shall unlawfully enter upon the property of another or secretly or furtively peep through or attempt to peep into, through, or spy through a window, door or other aperture of any building, structure or other enclosure of any nature occupied by or intended for occupancy as a dwelling or dormitory, whether or not such building, structure or enclosure be permanently situated or transportable and whether or not such occupancy be permanent or temporary.
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