{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-17c-4-17","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 17C-4-17","heading":"Notification of landowner when accident damages livestock fence.","body":"Whenever a member of the West Virginia State Police, Natural Resources police officer, a member of a county sheriff’s department, or a municipal police officer, in the regular course of their duties, reports on a crash that causes damage to any fence that could contain livestock, that officer must make a reasonable attempt following the accident to contact either the landowner or any known lessee of the land to alert the landowner or lessee of the fence damage.","path":["CHAPTER 17C. TRAFFIC REGULATIONS AND LAWS OF THE ROAD.","ARTICLE 4. ACCIDENTS."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/17C-4-17/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:24:21Z","sha256":"3e8f72ae7dd571921966d4af545539bdffb45378873ffd92cafb244fe7e824bb","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-17c-4-16","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-17c-5-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}