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2010 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 27. MENTALLY ILL PERSONS
ARTICLE 16. STERILIZATION OF MENTAL DEFECTIVES.
§27-16-2. Appeal from court order.
§27-16-2. Appeal from court order. From any such order so entered by the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, any party thereto shall have, within sixty days after the entry of such order, the right to apply for an appeal to the supreme court of appeals, which may grant or refuse such appeal and shall have jurisdiction to hear and to determine the same upon the record of the hearing in the circuit court and to enter such order as it may deem appropriate. The filing of such an appeal in the supreme court of appeals shall operate as a stay of proceedings under any such order of the circuit court until such appeal shall be determined by the supreme court of appeals.
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