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2021 West Virginia Code
Chapter 16. Public Health
Article 30. West Virginia Health Care Decisions Act
- §16-30-1. Short Title
- §16-30-2. Legislative Findings and Purpose
- §16-30-3. Definitions
- §16-30-4. Executing a Living Will or Medical Power of Attorney or Combined Medical Power of Attorney and Living Will
- §16-30-5. Applicability and Resolving Actual Conflict Between Advance Directives
- §16-30-6. Private Decision-Making Process; Authority of Living Will, Medical Power of Attorney Representative and Surrogate
- §16-30-7. Determination of Incapacity
- §16-30-8. Selection of a Surrogate
- §16-30-9. Medical Power of Attorney Representative and Health Care Surrogate Decision-Making Standards
- §16-30-10. Reliance on Authority of Living Will, Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment Form, Medical Power of Attorney Representative or Surrogate Decisionmaker and Protection of Health Care Providers
- §16-30-11. Negligence
- §16-30-12. Conscience Objections
- §16-30-13. Interinstitutional Transfers
- §16-30-14. Insurance
- §16-30-15. Withholding of Life Support Not Assisted Suicide or Murder
- §16-30-16. Preservation of Existing Rights and Relation to Existing Law; No Presumption
- §16-30-17. No Abrogation of Common Law Doctrine of Medical Necessity
- §16-30-18. Revocation
- §16-30-19. Physician's Duty to Confirm, Communicate and Document Terminal Condition or Persistent Vegetative State; Medical Record Identification
- §16-30-20. Living Wills Previously Executed
- §16-30-21. Reciprocity
- §16-30-22. Liability for Failure to Act in Accordance With the Directives of a Living Will or Medical Power of Attorney or the Directions of a Medical Power of Attorney Representative or Health Care Surrogate
- §16-30-23. Prohibition
- §16-30-24. Need for a Second Opinion Regarding Incapacity for Persons With Psychiatric Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability or Addiction
- §16-30-25. Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment Form
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