West Virginia Code Chapter 61. Crimes and Their Punishment § 61-5A-10. Construction; certain other Code provisions not affected; article not to affect offenses committed under other statutory provisions

Under no circumstances whatever shall this article be construed as superseding or in any way affecting the provisions of (1) chapter three of this Code dealing with bribery and other corrupt practices and criminal offenses in connection with elections, election officials, voters or voting in elections; (2) sections seventeen and eighteen, article two, chapter fifteen of this Code; (3) section nine, article two-a, chapter eighteen of this Code; and (4) sections fifteen and twenty-two, article ten of this chapter sixty-one; and the specific types of bribery, corrupt practices and criminal offenses covered by the statutory provisions referred to in this section shall continue to be governed by such statutory provisions and not by this article.

The provisions of this article shall govern and control as to any offenses committed in violation thereof on and after the effective date of this article, and the provisions of sections four, five, six and seven, article five of this chapter, shall govern and control as to any offenses committed in violation of said sections four, five, six and seven prior to the effective date of this article five-a, with like effect as to such prior offenses as if this article five-a had not been enacted.