West Virginia Code — 18
Browse 366 sections in division 18 of the West Virginia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 18-1-1. 18-1-1. Definitions.
- § 18-1-2. 18-1-2. School year.
- § 18-1-3. 18-1-3. Scope of school district; abolition of magisterial school districts, etc., and independent districts.
- § 18-1-4. 18-1-4. Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty.
- § 18-2-1. 18-2-1. Creation; composition; appointment, qualifications, terms, and removal of members; offices.
- § 18-2-2. 18-2-2.
- § 18-2-3. 18-2-3. Meetings; compensation and expenses of members.
- § 18-2-4. 18-2-4. Organization; appointment, compensation and duties of secretary.
- § 18-2-5. 18-2-5. Powers and duties generally; specific powers and duties for alternatives that improve student learning.
- § 18-2-6. 18-2-6. Classification and standardization of schools; standards for degrees and diplomas; certificates of proficiency; establishment of alternative education programs.
- § 18-2-7. 18-2-7. Courses of study; language of instruction.
- § 18-2-8. 18-2-8. Course of study in fire prevention.
- § 18-2-9. 18-2-9. Required courses of instruction.
- § 18-2-10. 18-2-10. Certificates and awards.
- § 18-2-11. 18-2-11. Sabbatical leaves for teachers and certain aides.
- § 18-2-12. 18-2-12. Computer science courses of instruction; learning standards; state board plan development.
- § 18-2-13. 18-2-13. Character education integration.
- § 18-2-14. 18-2-14. Reports by state Board of Education, state commissioner of public institutions, and chief officers of state educational institutions to Auditor.
- § 18-2-15. 18-2-15.
- § 18-2-16. 18-2-16. Establishment and operation of state camp and conference center; rental thereof; expenditures; gifts and donations; county court may erect and equip buildings.
- § 18-2-17. 18-2-17.
- § 18-2-18. 18-2-18.
- § 18-2-19. 18-2-19.
- § 18-2-20. 18-2-20.
- § 18-2-21. 18-2-21.
- § 18-2-22. 18-2-22.
- § 18-2-23. 18-2-23.
- § 18-2-24. 18-2-24. Collaboration of state institutions of higher education having a teacher preparation program with the Center for Professional Development, state board and the regional education service agencies.
- § 18-2-25. 18-2-25. Authority of county boards to regulate athletic and other extracurricular activities of secondary schools; delegation of authority to West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission; authority of commission; approval of rules by state board; incorporation; funds; participation by private and parochial schools and by home-schooled students and participants in the Hope Scholarship Program or in a Microschool or Learning Pod.
- § 18-2-26. 18-2-26. Abolishment and transition of regional education service agencies.
- § 18-2-27. 18-2-27. Authority to contract for programs, services and facilities.
- § 18-2-28. 18-2-28.
- § 18-2-29. 18-2-29. Competitive grant program for selected schools and school districts.
- § 18-2-30. 18-2-30.
- § 18-2-31. 18-2-31.
- § 18-2-32. 18-2-32. Posthumous high school diplomas.
- § 18-2-33. 18-2-33. Rules for antihazing.
- § 18-2-34. 18-2-34. High school diplomas for surviving veterans of World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam Conflict.
- § 18-2-35. 18-2-35. Dress codes requiring school uniforms for students.
- § 18-2-36. 18-2-36. Framework for initiating comprehensive transformation of school leadership.
- § 18-2-37. 18-2-37.
- § 18-2-38. 18-2-38.
- § 18-2-39. 18-2-39. College and career readiness initiative.
- § 18-2-40. 18-2-40. Suicide prevention awareness training; dissemination of information.
- § 18-2-41. 18-2-41. Education and Prevention of the Sexual Abuse of Children.
- § 18-2-42. 18-2-42. Providing career and technical education program information to students and parents; transcript of post-secondary credit; career technical education student participation in graduation ceremony.
- § 18-2-43. 18-2-43. Addressing disciplinary action in West Virginia schools.
- § 18-2-44. 18-2-44. Safety While Accessing Technology education program; annual instruction required.
- § 18-2-45. 18-2-45. Patriotic societies; opportunity to speak and recruit at public schools.
- § 18-2-46. 18-2-46. Requiring the Legislative Auditor to conduct periodic performance audits of the West Virginia Department of Education.
- § 18-2-47. 18-2-47. Limitation on cell phones in classrooms; rule-making.
- § 18-2-48. 18-2-48. Air rifles and rimfire rifles permitted for school teams.
- § 18-3-1. 18-3-1. Appointment; qualifications; compensation; traveling expenses; office and residence; evaluation.
- § 18-3-2. 18-3-2. Seal; requisitions on Auditor for money.
- § 18-3-3. 18-3-3. General supervision of schools.
- § 18-3-4. 18-3-4. Proceedings to enforce school laws; examination and fees of witnesses; removal of school officials.
- § 18-3-5. 18-3-5. Conferences of school superintendents.
- § 18-3-6. 18-3-6. Interpretation of school laws and rules of state Board of Education.
- § 18-3-7. 18-3-7. Preparation, printing and distribution of state manuals and other publications; maintenance of minimum standards; examination of pupils.
- § 18-3-8. 18-3-8. Report of state superintendent.
- § 18-3-9. 18-3-9. State Department of Education.
- § 18-3-10. 18-3-10. Other powers and duties of state superintendent.
- § 18-3-11. 18-3-11. Classification of schools.
- § 18-3-12. 18-3-12. Special Community Development School Pilot Program.
- § 18-3-13. 18-3-13. Behavior Interventionist Pilot Program.
- § 18-4-1. 18-4-1. Election and term; interim superintendent.
- § 18-4-2. 18-4-2. Qualifications; health certificate; disability; acting superintendent.
- § 18-4-3. 18-4-3. Removal and suspension.
- § 18-4-4. 18-4-4. Compensation.
- § 18-4-5. 18-4-5. Payment of compensation.
- § 18-4-6. 18-4-6. Evaluation of county superintendent.
- § 18-4-7. 18-4-7. Office.
- § 18-4-8. 18-4-8. Clerical assistants; monthly salary from maintenance fund.
- § 18-4-9. 18-4-9. Reimbursement for traveling expenses; voucher.
- § 18-4-10. 18-4-10. Duties of county superintendent.
- § 18-4-11. 18-4-11. Other powers and duties.
- § 18-4-12. 18-4-12. Exception to §18-4-4.
- § 18-5-1. 18-5-1. Supervision and control of county school districts; number, nomination and election of members.
- § 18-5-2. 18-5-2. Filling vacancies.
- § 18-5-3. 18-5-3. Oath of members.
- § 18-5-4. 18-5-4. Meetings; employment and assignment of teachers; budget hearing; compensation of members; affiliation with state and national associations.
- § 18-5-5. 18-5-5. Corporate character and general powers of board; exemption of school property from legal process and taxes.
- § 18-5-6. 18-5-6. Validation of titles to land in possession of board.
- § 18-5-7. 18-5-7. Sale of school property at public auction; rights of grantor of lands in rural communities; oil and gas leases; disposition of proceeds; lease of school property.
- § 18-5-8. 18-5-8. Condemnation of land necessary for educational purposes.
- § 18-5-9. 18-5-9. Schoolhouses, buildings and equipment; health of pupils; repairs; medical and dental clinics.
- § 18-5-10. 18-5-10. Approval by state board of plans and specifications for buildings.
- § 18-5-11. 18-5-11. Joint establishment of schools.
- § 18-5-12. 18-5-12. Bond of contractors.
- § 18-5-13. 18-5-13. Authority of boards generally.
- § 18-5-14. 18-5-14. Policies to promote school board effectiveness.
- § 18-5-15. 18-5-15. Ages of persons to whom schools are open; enrollment of suspended or expelled student.
- § 18-5-16. 18-5-16. Student transfers; definitions; appeals; calculating net enrollment; fees for transfer.
- § 18-5-17. 18-5-17. Compulsory preenrollment hearing, vision and speech and language testing; developmental screening for children under compulsory school age.
- § 18-5-18. 18-5-18. Kindergarten programs.
- § 18-5-19. 18-5-19. Night schools and other school extension activities; use of school property for public meetings, etc.
- § 18-5-20. 18-5-20. School libraries; librarian.
- § 18-5-21. 18-5-21. Free textbooks.
- § 18-5-22. 18-5-22. Medical and dental inspection; school nurses; specialized health procedures; establishment of council of school nurses.
- § 18-5-23. 18-5-23. Dental clinics and treatment.
- § 18-5-24. 18-5-24. Purchase and display of United States flag; penalty for failure to display.
- § 18-5-25. 18-5-25. Duties of superintendent as secretary of board.
- § 18-5-26. 18-5-26. School buildings as child care facilities.
- § 18-5-27. 18-5-27. Requirement to publish curriculum online; parental right to inspect instructional materials; listing books on syllabus; right to file complaint.
- § 18-5-28. 18-5-28. Meetings among county boards of education to explore and discuss the feasibility of consolidating school districts or sharing certain services.
- § 18-5-29. 18-5-29. Prohibiting instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity and providing false information regarding student’s gender identity or intention to transition; requiring certain student requests to be reported to parent.
- § 18-5-30. 18-5-30. Preferred gender pronouns.
- § 18-5-31. 18-5-31.
- § 18-5-32. 18-5-32. Assistant superintendents; directors and supervisors of instruction and other educational activities.
- § 18-5-33. 18-5-33. Board may fix special salary schedules.
- § 18-5-34. 18-5-34. Other authority and duties of district boards.
- § 18-5-35. 18-5-35. Group insurance.
- § 18-5-36. 18-5-36. Payment for fire services on public school property.
- § 18-5-37. 18-5-37.
- § 18-5-38. 18-5-38.
- § 18-5-39. 18-5-39. Establishment of summer school programs; tuition.
- § 18-5-40. 18-5-40.
- § 18-5-41. 18-5-41. Content based censorship of American history prohibited.
- § 18-5-42. 18-5-42. County-wide council on productive and safe schools.
- § 18-5-43. 18-5-43. Duty of the county board of education to report the county-wide productive and safe school plans to the West Virginia Board of Education.
- § 18-5-44. 18-5-44. Early childhood education programs.
- § 18-5-45. 18-5-45. School calendar.
- § 18-5-46. 18-5-46. Requiring teacher to change grade prohibited; teacher recommendation relating to promotion.
- § 18-5-47. 18-5-47. County board flood insurance requirements.
- § 18-5-48. 18-5-48. Safety and security measures for school facilities; Safe Schools Fund created.
- § 18-5-49. 18-5-49. County board exceptional needs expenditures from surplus funds.
- § 18-5-50. 18-5-50. Legal compliance offices.
- § 18-5-51. 18-5-51. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Instruction Fund.
- § 18-5-52. 18-5-52. School safety officers.
- § 18-5-53. 18-5-53. Contracting with private security as a school safety officer.
- § 18-5-54. 18-5-54. Public school West Virginia Guardian Program.
- § 18-6-1. 18-6-1. Purpose and objectives of article.
- § 18-6-2. 18-6-2. Where provided; permit or certificate for persons who are not professional educators to teach course.
- § 18-6-3. 18-6-3. State board to establish minimum course standards; students with mental or physical defects; minimum standards specified.
- § 18-6-4. 18-6-4. Rules.
- § 18-6-5. 18-6-5. Establishment and maintenance of driver education course; who may enroll; exemption from learner's permit requirement; nonpermit student drivers.
- § 18-6-6. 18-6-6. Expenditure of school funds for driver education courses; appropriations.
- § 18-6-7. 18-6-7. Automobile liability insurance covering vehicles used in driver education.
- § 18-6-8. 18-6-8. Driver education course to be made available to all secondary school pupils prior to their graduation; exemption; application by pupil for unrestricted operator's license.
- § 18-6-9. 18-6-9.
- § 18-6-10. 18-6-10.
- § 18-7-1. 18-7-1.
- § 18-7-2. 18-7-2.
- § 18-7-3. 18-7-3.
- § 18-8-1. 18-8-1. Compulsory school attendance; exemptions.
- § 18-8-2. 18-8-2. Offenses; penalties; cost of prosecution; jurisdiction.
- § 18-8-3. 18-8-3. Employment of county director of school attendance and assistants; qualifications; salary and traveling expenses; removal.
- § 18-8-4. 18-8-4. Duties of attendance director and assistant directors; complaints, warrants, and hearings.
- § 18-8-5. 18-8-5. Duties of principal, administrative head or other chief administrator.
- § 18-8-6. 18-8-6. The High School Graduation Improvement Act.
- § 18-8-7. 18-8-7. Aiding or abetting violations of compulsory attendance; penalty.
- § 18-8-8. 18-8-8. Child suspended for failure to comply with requirements and regulations treated as unlawfully absent.
- § 18-8-9. 18-8-9. Report and disposition of fines collected.
- § 18-8-10. 18-8-10. Compulsory education of deaf and blind; offenses; penalties; names of deaf and blind.
- § 18-8-11. 18-8-11. School attendance and satisfactory academic progress as conditions of licensing for privilege of operation of motor vehicle.
- § 18-8-12. 18-8-12. Issuance of a diploma or other appropriate credential by public, private, home
- § 18-9-1. 18-9-1. School levies; when levy election necessary; special election.
- § 18-9-2. 18-9-2. Elections under this chapter; procedure.
- § 18-9-3. 18-9-3. Collection and disbursement of school money by sheriff; signing of orders for payment of money; forgery of signatures; penalties.
- § 18-9-4. 18-9-4. Nonpayment of order; liability of treasurer of county board.
- § 18-9-5. 18-9-5.
- § 18-9-6. 18-9-6. Transfer of moneys; appointment of treasurer; bonding of treasurer; approval of bank accounts; authority to invest; security for funds invested.
- § 18-9-7. 18-9-7.
- § 18-9-8. 18-9-8.
- § 18-10-1. 18-10-1. Assent to federal land grants for West Virginia University; investment of funds from sale of land warrants.
- § 18-10-2. 18-10-2. Federal aid for West Virginia agricultural experiment station.
- § 18-10-3. 18-10-3. Federal aid for West Virginia University and West Virginia State University.
- § 18-10-4. 18-10-4. Federal aid for cooperative agricultural extension work.
- § 18-10-5. 18-10-5. Federal aid for vocational education; duties of state Board of Education.
- § 18-10-6. 18-10-6.
- § 18-10-7. 18-10-7.
- § 18-10-8. 18-10-8. Acceptance and distribution of future federal funds available to state.
- § 18-10-9. 18-10-9. State Board of Education, board of Governors and commissioner of public institutions empowered to carry out provisions of federal aid acts.
- § 18-10-10. 18-10-10. Custody and disbursement of federal funds.
- § 18-10-11. 18-10-11. West Virginia Library Commission authorized to accept federal appropriations for rural library service; Governor may supplement state appropriation.
- § 18-10-12. 18-10-12. Custody and disbursement of library funds.
- § 18-10-13. 18-10-13. State educational institutions authorized to participate in federal student loan program.
- § 18-11-1. 18-11-1. Continuation; board of Governors [board of regents].
- § 18-11-2. 18-11-2. President.
- § 18-11-3. 18-11-3. Biennial reports of president.
- § 18-11-4. 18-11-4. Colleges, schools, departments and divisions of university.
- § 18-11-5. 18-11-5. Approval of rules and regulations.
- § 18-11-6. 18-11-6. Military training; federal aid.
- § 18-11-7. 18-11-7. Agricultural experiment station.
- § 18-11-8. 18-11-8. Creation of cooperative extension service; construction of code references to agricultural extension division.
- § 18-11-9. 18-11-9. Mining experiment station.
- § 18-11-10. 18-11-10. Extension and off-campus work of university; disposition of fees charged for graduate level extension and off-campus courses.
- § 18-11-11. 18-11-11. Four-H camps.
- § 18-11-12. 18-11-12.
- § 18-11-13. 18-11-13.
- § 18-11-14. 18-11-14.
- § 18-11-15. 18-11-15.
- § 18-11-16. 18-11-16.
- § 18-11-17. 18-11-17.
- § 18-11-18. 18-11-18.
- § 18-11-19. 18-11-19. Authority to construct and lease dormitories; financing thereof.
- § 18-11-20. 18-11-20. Salaries of president, athletic director and football coaches.
- § 18-11-21. 18-11-21. Deposit of official books, etc., with division of documents; certified copies as evidence.
- § 18-11-22. 18-11-22. Four-year medical course.
- § 18-11-23. 18-11-23. Contractual research revolving fund.
- § 18-11-24. 18-11-24. Promotion and financing of scientific research; authority to contract for patents; special research fund.
- § 18-11-25. 18-11-25. Financing of parking facilities or areas.
- § 18-11-26. 18-11-26.
- § 18-11-27. 18-11-27.
- § 18-11-28. 18-11-28.
- § 18-11-29. 18-11-29.
- § 18-11-30. 18-11-30.
- § 18-11-31. 18-11-31.
- § 18-11-32. 18-11-32.
- § 18-11-33. 18-11-33.
- § 18-11-34. 18-11-34.
- § 18-11-35. 18-11-35.
- § 18-11-36. 18-11-36.
- § 18-11-37. 18-11-37.
- § 18-11-38. 18-11-38.
- § 18-11-39. 18-11-39.
- § 18-11-40. 18-11-40.
- § 18-11-41. 18-11-41.
- § 18-11-42. 18-11-42.
- § 18-11-43. 18-11-43.
- § 18-12-1. 18-12-1. Change of names; management; continuation of functions; courses and degrees; rules and regulations; qualifications of president and teachers.
- § 18-13-1. 18-13-1. Earn a Degree - Graduate Early (EDGE) initiative established; purposes.
- § 18-13-2. 18-13-2. Goals for West Virginia EDGE.
- § 18-13-3. 18-13-3. Program administration and accountability.
- § 18-13-4. 18-13-4. Joint rule required.
- § 18-13-5. 18-13-5. No specific level of appropriation required.
- § 18-14-1. 18-14-1.
- § 18-15-1. 18-15-1.
- § 18-16-1. 18-16-1. Short title.
- § 18-16-2. 18-16-2. Definitions.
- § 18-16-3. 18-16-3. Hazing prohibited.
- § 18-16-4. 18-16-4. Enforcement by institutions.
- § 18-17-1. 18-17-1. Continuation; management; minimum salary scale for all employees.
- § 18-17-2. 18-17-2. Admission and record of applicants; special programs and services.
- § 18-17-3. 18-17-3. Tuition, board and clothing of pupils; indigent clothing fund.
- § 18-17-4. 18-17-4. Period of attendance; special admissions.
- § 18-17-5. 18-17-5. Course of instruction.
- § 18-17-6. 18-17-6. Registration of deaf and blind by assessors.
- § 18-17-7. 18-17-7. Sale of lands; application of proceeds.
- § 18-17-8. 18-17-8. Continuing contract status established; dismissal and suspension procedures.
- § 18-17-9. 18-17-9. Employment of auxiliary and service personnel, dismissal and suspension procedures.
- § 18-18-1. 18-18-1.
- § 18-19-1. 18-19-1. Appropriation to provide educational opportunities.
- § 18-19-2. 18-19-2. Eligibility of applicant for benefits; application forms; preference.
- § 18-19-3. 18-19-3. No tuition fees to be charged; how funds to be expended; cessation of allowances.
- § 18-19-4. 18-19-4. Reversion of balances in fund to treasury.
- § 18-20-1. 18-20-1. Establishment of special programs and teaching services for students with exceptionalities.
- § 18-20-2. 18-20-2. Providing suitable educational facilities, equipment and services.
- § 18-20-3. 18-20-3. Local educational agency reports.
- § 18-20-4. 18-20-4. Examination and report by medical or other specialists.
- § 18-20-5. 18-20-5. Powers and duties of state superintendent.
- § 18-20-6. 18-20-6. Advisory council for the education of exceptional children.
- § 18-20-7. 18-20-7. Exceptional children program compliance monitoring and accountability review teams.
- § 18-20-8. 18-20-8. Interagency plan for exceptional children; advisory council.
- § 18-20-9. 18-20-9. Gifted education caseload review.
- § 18-20-10. 18-20-10. Dyslexia and dyscalculia defined.
- § 18-20-11. 18-20-11. Video cameras required in certain special education classrooms; audio recording devices required in restroom of a self-contained classroom.
- § 18-20-12. 18-20-12. Special education student instructor ratio; waiver; compensation to teacher when ratio exceeded.
- § 18-21-1. 18-21-1. Definition of "at-risk youth".
- § 18-21-2. 18-21-2. Creation of a special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth.
- § 18-21-3. 18-21-3. Secretary of Department of Human Services responsibilities.
- § 18-21-4. 18-21-4. Organization and goals of the community-based pilot demonstration program.
- § 18-22-1. 18-22-1.
- § 18-23-1. 18-23-1.
- § 18-23-2. 18-23-2.
- § 18-23-3. 18-23-3.
- § 18-23-4. 18-23-4.
- § 18-23-5. 18-23-5.
- § 18-23-6. 18-23-6. Bonds of officers and employees of state institutions of higher education.
- § 18-23-7. 18-23-7. Disposition of state moneys in possession of officers of state institutions of higher education; manner of expending appropriations; certification of deficiency in appropriations.
- § 18-23-8. 18-23-8. Visitation and inspection of state institutions of higher education.
- § 18-23-9. 18-23-9. Books and accounts.
- § 18-23-10. 18-23-10. Records of state institutions of higher education for statistical and other purposes; conference of chief officers.
- § 18-23-11. 18-23-11. Special investigation of any state institution of higher education by Governor or committee appointed by him
- § 18-23-12. 18-23-12. Governing boards to perform duties required by Governor.
- § 18-23-13. 18-23-13.
- § 18-23-14. 18-23-14.
- § 18-23-15. 18-23-15.
- § 18-23-16. 18-23-16. Cost of dormitories, housing facilities, food service facilities and motor vehicle parking facilities to be paid from proceeds of revenue bonds.
- § 18-23-17. 18-23-17. Agreements with trustees for bondholders.
- § 18-23-18. 18-23-18.
- § 18-23-19. 18-23-19. Payment of principal and interest of construction bonds from revenues of dormitories, housing facilities, food service facilities or motor vehicle parking facilities; redemption of bonds.
- § 18-23-20. 18-23-20. When dormitories, housing facilities, food service facilities or motor vehicle parking facilities become property of state.
- § 18-23-21. 18-23-21. State debt not to be incurred for dormitories, housing facilities, food service facilities or motor vehicle parking facilities; federal and private assistance; provisions separable.
- § 18-23-22. 18-23-22.
- § 18-23-23. 18-23-23.
- § 18-23-24. 18-23-24.
- § 18-24-1. 18-24-1.
- § 18-25-1. 18-25-1. Authority to make tax deferred investments for teachers and other employees.
- § 18-26-1. 18-26-1.
- § 18-27-1. 18-27-1.
- § 18-27-2. 18-27-2.
- § 18-27-3. 18-27-3.
- § 18-27-4. 18-27-4.
- § 18-27-5. 18-27-5.
- § 18-27-6. 18-27-6.
- § 18-27-7. 18-27-7.
- § 18-27-8. 18-27-8.
- § 18-27-9. 18-27-9.
- § 18-27-10. 18-27-10.