The purpose of this article is to encourage owners of land to make available to the public land and water areas for military, law-enforcement, homeland-defense training, or recreational, agricultural, or wildlife propagation purposes by limiting their liability for injury to persons entering thereon and for injury to the property of persons entering thereon and limiting their liability to persons who may be injured or otherwise damaged by the acts or omissions of persons entering thereon.
W. Va. Code § 19-25-1
Purpose
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 198 W. Va. 736 - Cole v. Fairchild (1996)
Most recently applied in 223 W. Va. 583 - Vaughan v. Greater Huntington Park & Recreation District (May 2009)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: West Virginia Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain West Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.