{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-31c-12-1","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 31C-12-1","heading":"Criminal liability.","body":"Any credit union officer, director, employee or agent, who willfully does any of the following shall be deemed guilty of a felony and, may, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not less than one year nor more than five years, or both:\n(a) With intent to deceive, falsifies any books of account, report, statement, record or other document of a credit union whether by alteration, false entry, omission or otherwise;\n(b) Signs, issues, publishes or transmits to a government agency any book of account, report, statement, record or other document which that person knows to be false;\n(c) By means of deceit, obtains a signature to a writing which is the subject of forgery;\n(d) With intent to deceive, destroys any credit union book of account, report, statement, record or other document.","path":["CHAPTER 31C. CREDIT UNIONS.","ARTICLE 12. PENALTIES."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/31C-12-1/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:28:03Z","sha256":"d413bf269c3add3d7b6c284f5582ec7569da1340425fe15fd49e769e2d2c8330","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-31c-11-12","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-31c-12-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}