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27-2-3 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
State Hospitals |
Superintendent of Lakin State Hospital |
The chief executive officer of the Lakin state hospital shall be a superintendent, who shall be a legally qualified physician of at least six years’ experience … |
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27-2-4 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
State Hospitals |
Rules and Regulations as to Patients |
The state board of control shall have authority to make and adopt rules and regulations, not contrary to law, regulating the admission of patients to the said s… |
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27-2-5 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
State Hospitals |
Forms for Committing Patients; Division of Patients into Classes |
The board of control shall also have authority to prepare, prescribe and have printed, forms to be used in committing patients to any of said hospitals; and in … |
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27-2-6 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
State Hospitals |
Inspection of Hospitals; How Expense Thereof Paid |
The governor and the board of control shall each have authority to have any one of said hospitals inspected or investigated by an expert or experts, at any time… |
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27-3-1 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
County Mental Hygiene Commission |
There shall he in each county a mental hygiene commission, to be composed of the president of the county court, the prosecuting attorney and the clerk of the co… |
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27-3-2 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
Meetings |
All meetings of the commission shall be held at the county seat, unless it shall be thought best by the commission to meet at some other place, as in the case o… |
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27-3-3 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
How Proceedings Originated; Complaint; Warrant |
If any resident of a county suspect any person therein to be a lunatic, he may make complaint under oath to the clerk of the county court, giving such informati… |
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27-3-4 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
Guardian Ad Litem for Suspected Person |
Before proceeding with the hearing of the matter, the commission shall appoint a guardian ad litem for such suspected person, and such guardian shall be present… |
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27-3-5 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
Witnesses; Physicians; Evidence to be Reduced to Writing |
Such witnesses as shall appear necessary shall be summoned by the commission to testify at the hearing. The substance of the evidence of each witness shall be r… |
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27-3-6 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
Hearing; Disposition of Lunatic |
If the commission finds as a result of the hearing that the person suspected is a lunatic and should be confined in a hospital, and that he is not a resident of… |
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27-3-7 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
Disposition of Lunatic Who is Nonresident of County; Expenses of Removal |
If the person so found to be a lunatic by the commission is a resident of another county of this State, the commission shall make up and transmit to the sheriff… |
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27-3-8 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
Commission to Inquire into Residence |
In the inquest on a person before them suspected of insanity, the county mental hygiene commission, if it appear that he is not a resident of this State, shall … |
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27-3-9 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
Arrangements Preparatory to Transfer of Insane Person to Hospital; Expenses of Commitment and Transfer |
When a person has been committed to a hospital as hereinbefore provided, the clerk of the commission shall immediately communicate with the superintendent of th… |
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27-3-10 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
Compensation of Physicians, Witnesses and Others |
The county court of any county may contract with two or more competent physicians respecting the compensation to be paid to them for their services in examining… |
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27-3-11 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
Expenses of Transfer to Hospital Payable out of State Treasury |
When an attendant is sent from a state hospital to bring in a person committed thereto, the expense incurred in taking the person to the hospital, including the… |
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27-3-12 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
When Officer Not to be Compensated for Transfer to Hospital |
No officer shall be allowed anything for carrying a lunatic or other person to or from a hospital, whether for himself, his guard, or the lunatic, unless he sha… |
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27-3-13 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Determination of Insanity; Commitment |
How and When Circuit Court to Inquire Into a Person’s Sanity |
If a person residing in this State be suspected to be insane but has not been found to be an insane person or a mental defective by the county mental hygiene co… |
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27-4-1 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Patients in Hospitals; Restoration |
Admission to Hospital of Committed Persons |
The superintendent of the hospital to whom application is made as hereinbefore provided, shall, on receipt of such application, carefully consider the same, and… |
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27-4-2 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Patients in Hospitals; Restoration |
Examination Upon Admission; Return to County |
When a person committed to a state hospital is received therein, he shall be carefully examined by the superintendent and one other physician thereof, who are h… |
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27-4-3 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Patients in Hospitals; Restoration |
Admission of Voluntary Patients |
Any resident of this State who is in the early stages of insanity, or believes himself about to become insane, or any epileptic who is not insane, or any other … |
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27-4-4 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Patients in Hospitals; Restoration |
Other Persons Who May be Admitted to Huntington State Hospital |
There shall also be admitted to the Huntington state hospital such patients as the board of control may deem eligible; but in no case to include tubercular, can… |
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27-4-5 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Patients in Hospitals; Restoration |
Commitment and Admission of Criminal Insane |
If any person charged with or convicted of crime be found, in the court before which he is so charged or was convicted, to be insane, and if such court shall or… |
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27-4-6 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Patients in Hospitals; Restoration |
Disposition of Insane Person Who is Nonresident of State |
When a person who is a nonresident of the State is committed to, or detained as an inmate of, a state hospital, the superintendent thereof shall immediately rep… |
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27-4-7 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Patients in Hospitals; Restoration |
Certificate of Restoration to Sanity; Discharge |
When any patient in any state hospital is restored to sanity the superintendent shall give him a certificate of restoration and discharge him from custody. Any … |
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27-4-8 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Patients in Hospitals; Restoration |
Return of Criminal Insane Upon Restoration |
When any person confined in a state hospital charged with crime and subject to be tried therefor, or convicted of crime and subject to be punished therefor, sha… |
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27-4-9 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Patients in Hospitals; Restoration |
Discharge by Court Proceedings of Persons Unlawfully Detained |
Any person who has been found insane by a county mental hygiene commission or any other board or tribunal other than a circuit court, and any person who is conf… |
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27-4-10 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Patients in Hospitals; Restoration |
Escape of Inmate From State Hospital |
If any person confined in a state hospital escape therefrom, the superintendent there of shall issue a notice, giving the name and description of the person esc… |
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27-5-1 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Maintenance of Certain Insane Patients |
When and How Counties to Pay |
Every county shall pay into the state treasury at the rate of fifty dollars per annum for every epileptic, idiot, imbecile, feeble-minded person, mental defecti… |
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27-5-2 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Maintenance of Certain Insane Patients |
Reimbursement of County From Estate or Relatives of Insane Person |
All moneys which any county shall, pay or become liable for under the provisions of this article, on account of any inmate from the county in any state hospital… |
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27-5-3 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Maintenance of Certain Insane Patients |
Additional Remedies of County; Exoneration From Reimbursement |
In the recovery of moneys due the county under the provisions of this article, in addition to the provisions of this article, all the provisions of sections sev… |
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27-6-1 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Insane Persons in County Jails |
Report to County Court; Provision for Maintenance; When Not to be Paid to Jailer |
When any person is confined in any jail as an insane person, or an epileptic, or an idiot, or other incurable defective, the jailer shall certify the fact to th… |
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27-6-2 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Insane Persons in County Jails |
How Discharge of Such Lunatic Obtained |
If any reputable person present to the clerk of the county court of a county wherein a person is confined as a lunatic, other than one charged with or convicted… |
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27-7-1 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Private Hospitals |
Permit From Board of Control; Regulations |
No private hospital for the care and treatment of the insane or mental defectives for compensation shall be established unless a permit therefor shall be first … |
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27-8-1 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
West Virginia Training School |
Management; Superintendent |
For the treatment and training of mental defectives there shall be a state institution to be known as the “West Virginia Training School.” It shall belong to th… |
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27-8-2 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
West Virginia Training School |
Land, Buildings and Equipment |
The West Virginia board of control shall select and acquire a suitable site and adequate lands, construct the necessary buildings and purchase the necessary equ… |
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27-8-3 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
West Virginia Training School |
Persons Who May be Admitted |
There shall be admitted to said school any person with mental defectiveness from birth or an early age, so pronounced that he or she is unable to care for himse… |
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27-8-4 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
West Virginia Training School |
Proceedings for Commitment |
Mental defectives shall be admitted to said school in the following manner:
(a) The county mental hygiene commission shall have jurisdiction of all applicatio… |
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27-8-5 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
West Virginia Training School |
Training and Treatment of Inmates |
The training and treatment of persons admitted to the school shall be along such educational, medical and industrial lines as have proved most effective in appr… |
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27-8-6 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
West Virginia Training School |
Parole of Inmates |
When, in the judgment of the superintendent of the school, a patient or inmate thereof shall, under the treatment and training given therein, improve mentally a… |
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27-9-1 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Committees; Disposition of Property |
To be Appointed by County Court |
When a person is found insane or to be a mental defective by any court or by the county mental hygiene commission, or is committed to a state hospital by the co… |
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27-9-2 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Committees; Disposition of Property |
Bond; Refusal to Act or Failure to Qualify; Appointment of Another; Committal to Sheriff |
The county court, when making the appointment of such committee, shall take from him a bond in such penalty and with such surety as it shall deem sufficient, wi… |
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27-9-3 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Committees; Disposition of Property |
Appraisement of Estate |
The county court, whenever any committee is appointed for an insane person or mental defective, shall appoint appraisers and cause to be made, returned and reco… |
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27-9-4 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Committees; Disposition of Property |
Powers and Duties Generally |
The committee of any such person shall be entitled to the custody and control of his person, when he resides in the State and is not confined in a state hospita… |
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27-9-5 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Committees; Disposition of Property |
Mortgage, Lease or Sale of Realty |
If the personal estate of such insane person or mental defective be insufficient for the discharge of his debts, or if such estate or the residue thereof after … |
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27-10-1 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Offenses |
Malicious Making of Medical Certificate or Complaint as to Sanity |
Any physician who shall sign a certificate respecting the sanity of any person without having made the examination as provided for by this chapter, or shall ma… |
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27-10-2 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Offenses |
Trespass on Grounds of Hospital or Training School |
The inclosed premises and the lands adjoining the same belonging to any one of said state hospitals or training school, are hereby declared private grounds; and… |
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27-10-3 |
Ch. 27 — INSANE PERSONS AND MENTAL DEFECTIVES |
Offenses |
Miscellaneous Offenses |
If any person shall entice any patient from any of said hospitals who has been legally committed thereto, or attempt to do so; or shall counsel, cause, influenc… |
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28-1-1 |
Ch. 28 — STATE CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS |
Industrial School for Boys |
Continuation; Management |
The West Virginia industrial school for boys, heretofore established and located at Pruntytown, in Taylor county, shall be continued and shall be exclusively ch… |
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28-1-2 |
Ch. 28 — STATE CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS |
Industrial School for Boys |
Commitment to Industrial School |
Any white male youth, between the ages of ten and eighteen years, may be committed to the West Virginia industrial school for boys:
(a) By any juvenile or dom… |
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28-1-3 |
Ch. 28 — STATE CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS |
Industrial School for Boys |
Commitment of Boy Convicted in State or Federal Court of Crime Punishable by Imprisonment |
Whenever any white male youth under the age of eighteen years shall have been convicted in any court of record of this State of a felony, or of a misdemeanor pu… |
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