West Virginia § 16-53-2 - 16-53-2. Establishing the Ryan Brown Addiction Prevention and Recovery Fund.
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§ 16-53-2. 16-53-2. Establishing the Ryan Brown Addiction Prevention and Recovery Fund.
The Ryan Brown Addiction Prevention and Recovery Fund is created in the state treasury as a special revenue account. The fund shall be administered by the Secretary of the Department of Human Services and shall consist of all moneys made available for the purposes of this article from any source, including, but not limited to, all grants, bequests or transfers from any source, any moneys that may be appropriated and designated for those purposes by the Legislature and all interest or other return earned from investment of the fund, gifts, and all other sums available for deposit to the special revenue account from any source, public or private. Expenditures from the fund shall be for the purposes set forth in this article and are not authorized from collections but are to be made only in accordance with appropriation by the Legislature and in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twelve of this code and upon the fulfillment of the provisions set forth in article two, chapter eleven-b of this code. Upon the effective date of this section, the attorney general and any public official with custody or control of the proceeds recovered for the state pursuant to settlement agreement dated January 9, 2017, in that certain civil action then pending in Boone County, designated Civil Action No. 12-C-141, shall forthwith transfer, or cause the transfer, of those proceeds into the Ryan Brown Addiction Prevention and Recovery Fund in the manner directed by the state treasurer pursuant to articles one and two, chapter twelve of this code and all other applicable law.
Source: official West Virginia text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 16-53-2 ("16-53-2. Establishing the Ryan Brown Addiction Prevention and Recovery Fund.") is part of the West Virginia Code, the codified statutory law of West Virginia. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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