If complaint is made to a court or magistrate which is authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases that the complainant believes, and has reasonable cause to believe, that the laws relative to cruelty to animals have been or are violated in any particular building or place, such court or magistrate, if satisfied that there is reasonable cause for such belief, shall issue a search warrant authorizing any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or police officer to search such building or place; but no such search shall be made after sunset, unless specially authorized by the magistrate upon satisfactory cause shown.
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