§24-6-9 Prohibitions and penalty. - West Virginia Statutes

§24-6-9. Prohibitions and penalty.
(a) No person may knowingly use the telephone number of an emergency telephone system or enhanced emergency telephone system to report an emergency if he or she knows that no such emergency exists.

(b) No person may disclose or use, for any purpose other than for an emergency telephone system or enhanced emergency telephone system, any information contained in the data base used for either an emergency telephone system or an enhanced emergency telephone system established pursuant to this article.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or both fined and imprisoned.