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2015 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 27. MENTALLY ILL PERSONS
ARTICLE 5. INVOLUNTARY HOSPITALIZATION.
- §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.
- §27-5-1a. Appointment of attorney to aid prosecutor; certification of performance; fee.
- §27-5-2. Institution of proceedings for involuntary custody for examination; custody; probable cause hearing; examination of individual.
- §27-5-2a.
- §27-5-3. Admission under involuntary hospitalization for examination; hearing; release.
- §27-5-4. Institution of final commitment proceedings; hearing requirements; release.
- §27-5-5. Judicial review.
- §27-5-6.
- §27-5-7. Hospitalization by agency of the United States.
- §27-5-8.
- §27-5-9. Rights of patients.
- §27-5-10. Transportation for the mentally ill or substance abuser.
- §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.
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