Any person who willfully or maliciously displaces, removes, destroys or injures a mile-board, milestone, danger-sign, signal, guide-sign, guidepost, highway sign, or historical marker or any inscription thereon, lawfully within or adjacent to a highway, or who in any manner paints, prints, places, puts or affixes any advertisement upon or to any rock, stone, tree, fence, stump, pole, mile-board, milestone, danger-sign, guide-sign, guidepost, highway sign, historical marker, building or other subject lawfully within the limits of any highway, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, shall be punished accordingly.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 17. Roads and Highways
Article 22. Outdoor Advertising
§17-22-3. Certain Outdoor Advertising Prohibited; When Removal Required
§17-22-4. General Restrictions as to Outdoor Advertising
§17-22-5. Payment of Compensation Upon Removal of Advertising Signs, Displays or Devices
§17-22-6. Purchase or Condemnation; Powers of Commissioner of Highways; Payment to Claimants
§17-22-7. Exceptions to Prohibited Signs; Standards for Excepted Signs
§17-22-9. Signs, Displays and Devices Providing Information for the Traveling Public; Location
§17-22-11. Enforcement of Provisions by Commissioner; Rules and Regulations
§17-22-12. Territory to Which Article Applies; Entries for Examinations and Surveys
§17-22-13. Licenses Required; Application; Expiration; Exceptions; Revocations; Judicial Review
§17-22-14. Bond of Out-of-State Licensee
§17-22-16. Permit Identification Number for Signs; Fastening to Signs
§17-22-17. Removal of Signs, etc., After Expiration or Revocation of Permit
§17-22-18. Removal, Defacing, etc., Signs Lawfully Within Highway Limits
§17-22-19. Consent of Property Owner for Erection
§17-22-20. Disposition of Fees
§17-22-21. Prohibited Signs Not to Be Allowed by Other Agencies, etc.
§17-22-22. Penalties; Signs in Violation of Article Declared Nuisance; Abatement
§17-22-23. Availability of Funds to Compensate for Required Removal of Signs, etc.