West Virginia Code
Article 14. Law and Order; Police Force or Departments; Powers, Authority and Duties of Law-Enforcement Officials and Policemen; Police Matrons; Special School Zone and Parking Lot or Parking Building Police Officers; Civil Service for Certain Police...
§8-14-22. Offenses and Penalties

Any individual who makes an appointment or promotion to any position, or selects an individual for employment, contrary to the civil service provisions of this article, or wilfully refuses or neglects otherwise to comply with, or to conform to, any of the civil service provisions of this article, or violates any of such provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Any commissioner or examiner, or any other individual, who shall wilfully, by himself or in cooperation with one or more persons, defeat, deceive or obstruct any individual with respect to his right of examination or registration according to the civil service provisions of this article, or to any rules and regulations prescribed pursuant thereto, or who shall wilfully or corruptly, falsely mark, grade, estimate, or report upon any such examination or proper standing of any individual so examined, registered or certified, pursuant to the civil service provisions of this article, or aid in so doing, or who shall wilfully or corruptly furnish to any individual any special or secret information, for the purpose of either improving or injuring the prospects or chances of appointment or promotion to any position of any individual so examined, registered or certified, or to be so examined, registered or certified, or who shall impersonate any other individual, or permit or aid in any manner any other individual to impersonate him, in connection with any such examination or registration, or application or request to be examined or registered, shall, for each offense, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Any person convicted of any such misdemeanor offense shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50, nor more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

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Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations

Article 14. Law and Order; Police Force or Departments; Powers, Authority and Duties of Law-Enforcement Officials and Policemen; Police Matrons; Special School Zone and Parking Lot or Parking Building Police Officers; Civil Service for Certain Police...

§8-14-1. Power and Authority With Respect to the Preservation of Law and Order; Police Force or Departments

§8-14-2. Hours of Duty for Policemen in a Paid Police Department Under Civil Service; Overtime Compensation or Time Off; Municipal Emergencies

§8-14-2a. Policemen Who Are Required to Work During Holidays; How Compensated

§8-14-3. Powers, Authority, and Duties of Law-Enforcement Officials and Policemen

§8-14-4. Police Matrons

§8-14-5. Special School Zone Police Officers

§8-14-5a. Parking Enforcement Officers

§8-14-6. Qualifications for Appointment or Promotion to Positions in Certain Paid Police Departments to Be Ascertained by Examination; Provisions Exclusive as to Appointments, etc.; Definitions

§8-14-7. Policemen's Civil Service Commission Generally

§8-14-8. Recorder Ex Officio Clerk of Commission; Clerical and Stenographic Services

§8-14-9. Rooms, Stationery, etc., to Be Furnished by City; Appropriations Required

§8-14-10. Powers, Authority and Duties of Policemen's Civil Service Commission

§8-14-11. Rules and Regulations for All Examinations; Probationary Appointments

§8-14-12. Form of Application; Age and Residency Requirements; Exceptions

§8-14-13. Character and Notice of Competitive Examinations; Qualifications of Applicants; Press Representatives; Posting Eligible List; Medical Examinations

§8-14-13a. Individual Review of Test and Answers From Promotional Examination

§8-14-14. Refusal to Examine or Certify; Review Thereof

§8-14-15. Appointments From List of Eligibles

§8-14-15a. Veteran Qualification for Examinations Required During Probation Period

§8-14-16. Noncompetitive Examination for Filling Vacancy; Provisional Appointment

§8-14-17. Vacancies Filled by Promotions; Eligibility for Promotion; Rights of Chief

§8-14-18. No Inquiry Shall Be Made Concerning Political or Religious Opinions or Affiliations of Applicants, etc.

§8-14-19. Political Activities of Members Prohibited; Exceptions

§8-14-20. Removal, Discharge, Suspension or Reduction in Rank or Pay; Hearing; Attorney Fees; Appeal; Reduction in Number of Members

§8-14-21. Election to Determine if Civil Service Provisions of Article Shall Apply to Class III City or Class IV Town or Village; Existing Police Civil Service Not Affected; Certain Regular Members Automatically Covered

§8-14-22. Offenses and Penalties

§8-14-23. Repeal of Conflicting Acts and Provisions; Civil Service Provisions of Article Exclusive; Status or Tenure Not Affected; Certain Members Automatically Covered; Continuance of Police Civil Service Systems

§8-14-24. Right to Receive Complete Standard Uniform; Right to Acquire Badge; and Right to Keep Service Weapon