West Virginia Code
Article 4. Accidents
§17C-4-17. Notification of Landowner When Accident Damages Livestock Fence

Whenever a member of the West Virginia State Police, Natural Resources police officer, a member of a county sheriffs department, or a municipal police officer, in the regular course of their duties, reports on a crash that causes damage to any fence that could contain livestock, that officer must make a reasonable attempt following the accident to contact either the landowner or any known lessee of the land to alert the landowner or lessee of the fence damage.