West Virginia Code
Article 8. Crimes Against Chastity, Morality and Decency
§61-8-2. Same -- Effect of Absence, Divorce or Void Marriage

The preceding section shall not extend to a person whose former husband or wife has been continuously absent from such person for seven years next before the marriage of such person to another, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time; nor to a person who shall, at the time of the subsequent marriage, have been divorced from the bond of the former marriage, and the term fixed by the decree of the court granting the divorce, in which the parties may not remarry save to each other, shall have elapsed, or whose former marriage shall, at that time, have been declared void by the sentence of a court of competent jurisdiction.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 61. Crimes and Their Punishment

Article 8. Crimes Against Chastity, Morality and Decency

§61-8-1. Bigamy -- Penalty

§61-8-2. Same -- Effect of Absence, Divorce or Void Marriage

§61-8-5. Houses of Ill Fame and Assignation; Immunity for Minor Victims of Sex Trafficking; Penalties; Jurisdiction of Courts

§61-8-6. Detention of Person in Place of Prostitution; Penalty

§61-8-7. Procuring for House of Prostitution; Penalty; Venue; Competency as Witness; Marriage No Defense

§61-8-8. Receiving Support From Prostitution; Pimping; Penalty; Prostitute May Testify

§61-8-9. Indecent Exposure

§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

§61-8-12. Incest; Penalty

§61-8-13. Incest; Limits on Interviews of Children Eleven Years Old or Less; Evidence

§61-8-14. Disinterment or Displacement of Dead Body or Part Thereof; Damage to Cemetery or Graveyard; Penalties; Damages in Civil Action

§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

§61-8-30. Photography of a Corpse or Person Being Provided Medical Care or Assistance; Prohibitions; Exceptions; Jonathan’s Law

§61-8-31. Therapeutic Deception; Penalties