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2010 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 16. PUBLIC HEALTH
ARTICLE 30C. DO NOT RESUSCITATE ACT.
- §16-30C-1. Short title.
- §16-30C-2. Legislative findings and purposes.
- §16-30C-3. Definitions.
- §16-30C-4. Applicability.
- §16-30C-5. Presumed consent to cardiopulmonary resuscitation; health care facilities not required to expand to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- §16-30C-6. Issuance of a do-not-resuscitate order; order to be written by a physician.
- §16-30C-7. Compliance with a do-not-resuscitate order.
- §16-30C-8. Revocation of do not resuscitate order.
- §16-30C-9. Protection of persons carrying out in good faith do not resuscitate order; notification of representative or surrogate decision-maker by physician refusing to comply with do not resuscitate order.
- §16-30C-10. Insurance.
- §16-30C-11. Interinstitutional transfers.
- §16-30C-12. Preservation of existing rights.
- §16-30C-13. Do-not-resuscitate order form; do-not-resuscitate identification; public education.
- §16-30C-14. Not suicide or murder.
- §16-30C-15. Full faith and credit.
- §16-30C-16. Severability.
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