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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2026
REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4054
By Delegate Pritt
[Introduced January 14, 2026; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend and reenact §19-20-20 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to prohibiting the keeping any vicious pet and permitting a vicious pet to be killed.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 20. DOGS
,
AND
CATS
, and other pets
.
§19-20-20. Keeping vicious
dogs
pets
; humane officers may kill such
dogs
pets
.
Except as provided in
section twenty-one of this article
§19-20-21 of this code
, no person shall own, keep, or harbor any
dog
pet
known by him
or her
to be vicious, dangerous, or in the habit of biting or attacking
other persons
people
, whether or not such
dog
pet
wears a tag or muzzle. Upon satisfactory proof before a circuit court or magistrate that such
dog
pet
is vicious, dangerous, or in the habit of biting or attacking
other persons
people
or other
dogs or
animals, the judge may authorize the humane officer to cause such
dog
pet
to be killed.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the ownership of any vicious pet.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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