(a) It is unlawful for any person to bet or wager money or any other thing of value in any location or place where an animal fighting venture occurs.
(b) Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $300 and not more than $2,000, or confined in jail not more than one year, or both fined and imprisoned.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, any person who is convicted of a third or subsequent violation of this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $2,500 and not more than $5,000, or imprisoned in a state correctional facility not less than one year nor more than five years, or both fined and imprisoned.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 61. Crimes and Their Punishment
Article 8. Crimes Against Chastity, Morality and Decency
§61-8-2. Same -- Effect of Absence, Divorce or Void Marriage
§61-8-6. Detention of Person in Place of Prostitution; Penalty
§61-8-8. Receiving Support From Prostitution; Pimping; Penalty; Prostitute May Testify
§61-8-9a. Child Abuse; Education; Curriculum
§61-8-10. Administering Anesthetics to Female Save in Presence of Third Person; Penalty
§61-8-11. Breathing, Inhaling, or Drinking Certain Intoxicating Compounds; Penalty
§61-8-13. Incest; Limits on Interviews of Children Eleven Years Old or Less; Evidence
§61-8-15. Prohibition on Certain Demonstrations at Funerals
§61-8-16. Obscene, Anonymous, Harassing, Repeated and Threatening Telephone Calls; Penalty
§61-8-19. Cruelty to Animals; Penalties; Exclusions
§61-8-19a. Animal Fighting Ventures Prohibited
§61-8-19b. Attendance at Animal Fighting Ventures Prohibited; Penalty
§61-8-19c. Wagering at Animal Fighting Venture Prohibited; Penalty
§61-8-20. Keeping or Using Live Birds to Be Shot At; Penalty
§61-8-21. Search Warrants Relating to Cruelty to Animals
§61-8-22. Search Warrants Relating to Birds and Animals Kept for Fighting
§61-8-23. Search Without Warrant Where There Is an Exhibition of the Fighting of Birds or Animals
§61-8-25. Requiring Children to Beg, Sing or Play Musical Instruments in Streets; Penalty
§61-8-26. Permitting Children to Sing, Dance or Act in Dance House, etc.; Penalty
§61-8-27. Unlawful Admission of Children to Dance House, etc.; Penalty
§61-8-27a. Use of False Identification, etc., by Person Under Age; Penalty
§61-8-28. Criminal Invasion of Privacy; Penalties
§61-8-28a. Nonconsensual Disclosure of Private Intimate Images; Definitions; and Penalties
§61-8-29. Criminal Loitering by Persons on Supervised Release