West Virginia Code — 27
Browse 83 sections in division 27 of the West Virginia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 27-1-1. 27-1-1. Definitions.
- § 27-1-2. 27-1-2. Mental illness.
- § 27-1-3. 27-1-3. Intellectual disability.
- § 27-1-4. 27-1-4. Inebriate.
- § 27-1-5. 27-1-5. Physician.
- § 27-1-6. 27-1-6. State hospital.
- § 27-1-7. 27-1-7. Administrator and clinical director.
- § 27-1-8. 27-1-8. Resident of state and county.
- § 27-1-9. 27-1-9. Mental health facility.
- § 27-1-10. 27-1-10. Psychologists and psychiatrists.
- § 27-1-11. 27-1-11. Addiction.
- § 27-1-12. 27-1-12. Likely to cause serious harm.
- § 27-1-13. 27-1-13. Chief medical officer.
- § 27-1-14. 27-1-14. Detained or taken into custody.
- § 27-1-15. 27-1-15. Computation of time.
- § 27-1-16. 27-1-16. Incapacitated.
- § 27-1-17. 27-1-17. Judicial officer.
- § 27-2-1. 27-2-1. State hospitals and other facilities; transfer of control and property from Department of Mental Health to Department of Health and Human Resources; civil service coverage.
- § 27-2-2. 27-2-2. Superintendents; qualifications and exceptions therefrom; salaries of superintendents and other officers and employees; furnishing of meals, household facilities, etc.
- § 27-2-3. 27-2-3. Rules as to patients.
- § 27-2-4. 27-2-4. Forms for committing patients; other records.
- § 27-2-5. 27-2-5. Reports by superintendents; records of director of health.
- § 27-2-6. 27-2-6. Moneys received by state hospitals and facilities.
- § 27-3-1. 27-3-1. Definition of confidential information; disclosure.
- § 27-3-2. 27-3-2. Authorization of disclosure of confidential information.
- § 27-4-1. 27-4-1. Authority to receive voluntary patients.
- § 27-4-2. 27-4-2. Release of voluntary patients.
- § 27-4-3. 27-4-3. Right to release on application.
- § 27-4-4. 27-4-4. Admission and treatment of voluntary patients; statement of rights; consent for treatment.
- § 27-5-1. 27-5-1. Appointment of mental hygiene commissioner; duties of mental hygiene commissioner; duties of prosecuting attorney; duties of sheriff; duties of Supreme Court of Appeals; use of certified municipal law-enforcement officers.
- § 27-5-2. 27-5-2. Institution of proceedings for involuntary custody for examination; custody; probable cause hearing; examination of individual.
- § 27-5-3. 27-5-3. Admission under involuntary hospitalization for examination; hearing; release.
- § 27-5-4. 27-5-4. Institution of final commitment proceedings; hearing requirements; release.
- § 27-5-5. 27-5-5. Judicial review.
- § 27-5-6. 27-5-6.
- § 27-5-7. 27-5-7. Hospitalization by agency of the United States.
- § 27-5-8. 27-5-8.
- § 27-5-9. 27-5-9. Rights of patients.
- § 27-5-10. 27-5-10. Transportation for the mentally ill or persons with substance use disorder.
- § 27-5-11. 27-5-11. Modified procedures for temporary compliance orders for certain medication dependent persons with prior hospitalizations or convictions; instituting modified mental hygiene procedures; establishing procedures; providing for forms and reports.
- § 27-6-1. 27-6-1. Dissemination of information.
- § 27-7-1. 27-7-1. Discharge.
- § 27-7-2. 27-7-2. Release of patients on convalescent status.
- § 27-7-3. 27-7-3. Release as unimproved.
- § 27-7-4. 27-7-4. Readmission of patients.
- § 27-7-5. 27-7-5. Return of escapees; veterans.
- § 27-8-1. 27-8-1. Maintenance of patients; patient assets; reimbursement procedures.
- § 27-8-2. 27-8-2.
- § 27-8-3. 27-8-3. Care of patients in boarding homes.
- § 27-9-1. 27-9-1. License; regulations.
- § 27-9-2. 27-9-2. Forensic group homes.
- § 27-10-1. 27-10-1.
- § 27-10-2. 27-10-2.
- § 27-10-3. 27-10-3.
- § 27-10-4. 27-10-4.
- § 27-10-5. 27-10-5.
- § 27-11-1. 27-11-1.
- § 27-11-2. 27-11-2.
- § 27-11-3. 27-11-3.
- § 27-11-4. 27-11-4.
- § 27-11-5. 27-11-5.
- § 27-12-1. 27-12-1. Malicious making of medical certificate or complaint as to mental condition.
- § 27-12-2. 27-12-2. Trespass on grounds of state hospitals.
- § 27-12-3. 27-12-3. Miscellaneous offenses.
- § 27-13-1. 27-13-1. Laws repealed.
- § 27-13-2. 27-13-2. Severability.
- § 27-14-1. 27-14-1. Governor to execute compact.
- § 27-14-2. 27-14-2. Compact administrator.
- § 27-14-3. 27-14-3. Supplementary agreements.
- § 27-14-4. 27-14-4. Financial arrangements.
- § 27-14-5. 27-14-5. Transmittal of copies of article.
- § 27-15-1. 27-15-1. Enactment of compact.
- § 27-15-2. 27-15-2. Who may enter into contracts under compact.
- § 27-15-3. Effective date.
- § 27-16-1. 27-16-1.
- § 27-16-2. 27-16-2.
- § 27-16-3. 27-16-3.
- § 27-16-4. 27-16-4.
- § 27-16-5. 27-16-5.
- § 27-17-1. 27-17-1. Definitions.
- § 27-17-2. 27-17-2. Permitted use of group residential facilities; restrictions.
- § 27-17-3. 27-17-3. License from Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification; regulations; and penalties.
- § 27-17-4. 27-17-4. Exclusion by private agreement void.