West Virginia Code
Article 2B. Distribution of Crime Profits
§14-2B-2. Legislative Findings; Purpose and Intent

The Legislature finds and declares that it is a violation of the public policy of this state to permit a person who commits a crime to thereafter gain a monetary profit from the commission of that crime. Consequently, the Legislature finds that when a person convicted of a crime later profits as a result of the commission of that crime, such profits should be used to compensate those crime victims who were damaged as a result of the commission of the crime, as well as the taxpayers who paid for the prosecution or incarceration of the defendant, or both.

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West Virginia Code

Chapter 14. Claims Due and Against the State

Article 2B. Distribution of Crime Profits

§14-2B-1. Short Title

§14-2B-2. Legislative Findings; Purpose and Intent

§14-2B-3. Definitions

§14-2B-4. Notice of Contract With Defendant; Payment Over of Crime Profits to Prosecutor; Placing of Crime Profits Into Escrow Account

§14-2B-5. Prosecutor to Commence Action to Distribute Profits From Crime; Joinder of Parties; Statute of Limitations; Issues to Be Determined in Action

§14-2B-6. Authority of Prosecutor to Make Payments From Escrow Account for the Necessary Expenses of Protection of Moneys Paid Into the Escrow Account; Payment of Moneys to Defendant When Charges Dismissed Prior to Filing of Interpleader Action