West Virginia Legislature
Code of West Virginia, 1931
Official Recodification - Enacted December 31, 1930 - Effective January 1, 1931
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49-2-13 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Same; Hearing; Appointment of Person to Represent Child On default of the custodian of the child, or on his appearance or answer, or on the appearance in person of the child in court or before such judge with or with… Proofed
49-2-14 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Temporary Disposition of Child At any time after the filing of the petition, and pending the final disposition of the case, the court or judge may continue the hearing from time to time, and … Proofed
49-2-15 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Disposition of Child After Hearing If the court shall find any male or female child under the age of eighteen years to be delinquent within the meaning of this article, the court may allow such c… Proofed
49-2-16 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Return of Child to Its Home on Probation Whenever it shall appear to the court, before or after the appointment of a guardian under this article, or after commitment to any institution or association, … Proofed
49-2-17 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Court May Allow Child to be Proceeded Against Criminally In any case of a delinquent child the court may in its discretion permit such child to be proceeded against in accordance with the laws that may be in force in … Proofed
49-2-18 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Court May Order Child Placed in Hospital The court may, when the health or condition of any child found to be neglected, dependent or delinquent requires it, order the guardian to cause such child to b… Proofed
49-2-19 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Copy of Order as Proof of Authority of Guardian Any child found to be delinquent as defined in this article, and awarded by the court to a guardian, institution or association, or any child found to be neglec… Proofed
49-2-20 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Duration of Guardianship The guardianship authorized by this article shall continue until the court shall by further order otherwise direct, but not after the child shall have reached t… Proofed
49-2-21 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Report of Guardian or Institution; Removal The court may, from time to time, cite into court the guardian, institution or association to whose care a delinquent child has been awarded, and require him or… Proofed
49-2-22 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Transfer of Cases From Justice or Police Magistrate When in any county where a court is held as provided in section one of this article, a male or female child under the age of eighteen years is arrested with or … Proofed
49-2-23 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Places Where Children May be Confined No court or magistrate shall commit a child under sixteen years of age to a jail or police station; and no sheriff, constable, jailer, police officer, or probat… Proofed
49-2-24 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children When Child Shall be Admitted to Bail Any child within the provisions of this article, who is informed against, or regarding which a petition has been filed, or who is for any purpose taken into cus… Proofed
49-2-25 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Counsel for Child The court may in any case, upon the request of such child or its parent or person representing it, appoint counsel to appear and defend on behalf of any such ch… Proofed
49-2-26 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children State Institutions to Maintain Agents for Supervision Over Paroled Children It shall be the duty of the board of managers, trustees, or such authorities as may be vested by law with the control or management, of any State institution to… Proofed
49-2-27 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Fees of Officers That May be Taxed It shall be unlawful for any court clerk or other officer or person to tax or collect, or for any county to pay, any fees whatever which may be permitted by any… Proofed
49-2-28 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Juvenile Courts; Delinquent Children Reports of Juvenile Courts Between the first and fifteenth days of January of each year, or at such other time as the West Virginia board of children’s guardians may designate, the clerks… Proofed
49-3-1 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Corporate Status of Board; Members; Qualifications; Appointment; Terms There shall be a state board of children’s guardians known as the “West Virginia Board of Children’s Guardians.” It shall be a corporation, and as such may cont… Proofed
49-3-2 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Removal of Members The governor may remove any member for incompetency, neglect of duty, gross immorality, malfeasance in office, or for other good cause. Proofed
49-3-3 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Vacancy in Board Any vacancy in the board, whether occurring by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, shall be filled as provided by section eleven, article ten, of chapter… Proofed
49-3-4 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Offices; Meetings; Compensation and Expenses The board shall be provided by the board of public works with offices at the state capital. The board shall hold its annual meetings as soon as practicable af… Proofed
49-3-5 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Report to the Governor The board shall make a biennial report to the governor, covering fully all its works, investigations, needs, and recommendations. Proofed
49-3-6 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Medical Tests and Printing Without charge to the board, the state department of health shall make such skin and blood tests and the superintendent of public printing shall do such printin… Proofed
49-3-7 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Regulations and Employees The board of children’s guardians shall make such by-laws, rules and regulations not contrary to law, relative to its management, government and work, as it may… Proofed
49-3-8 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children How Care and Custody of Dependent and Neglected Children Committed to Board It shall be lawful for the board, its officers or agents, to take or receive into custody or control children as hereinafter provided: Whenever the board, any… Proofed
49-3-9 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Court to Supply Board With Certain Information All pertinent information adduced or developed at such hearing regarding the history and situation of the child, its parents and forebears, shall be supplied by… Proofed
49-3-10 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Costs and Expenses of Investigation and Hearing to be Paid by County The costs and expenses necessary for proper work in connection with family case work investigation and a hearing or commitment under this article, shall be a pr… Proofed
49-3-11 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Support of Poor Parent and Children Whenever application is made to the board to accept the care and custody of a child hereunder, said board shall make a careful and thorough investigation, and, … Proofed
49-3-12 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Physical and Mental Examination of Children All children committed to the board shall first receive a physical and mental examination, and the said board shall prepare and furnish blank forms for the purp… Proofed
49-3-13 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Return of Delinquent or Mentally Defective Children All children who are declared public wards and placed under the charge of said board and who afterward become delinquent, shall be returned to the court or judg… Proofed
49-3-14 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Children Declared Public Wards to Remain Such All children who are declared public wards under the provisions of this article a shall remain public wards until they attain the age of twenty-one years, unles… Proofed
49-3-15 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children When Child to Remain in Its Home or to be Placed in Custody of Guardian or Institution If the court or judge shall find any male child under the age of sixteen years or female child under the age of eighteen years to be dependent or neglected with… Proofed
49-3-16 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children When Supervision of Board to Cease All children surrendered to the care or committed to the custody of the state board of children’s guardians shall be under its supervision and control in the ma… Proofed
49-3-17 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Enticing Away of Child a Misdemeanor Any person who shall, either personally or by agent, entice, or attempt to entice, away a child from the custody of the state board of children’s guardians, its… Proofed
49-3-18 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Placing Children in Institutions The state board of children’s guardians may place any children in its care or custody in any orphan asylum or children’s home that is incorporated under the law… Proofed
49-3-19 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Placing Children in Private Homes The state board of children’s guardians may, when in its discretion it shall appear proper, place any children in its care or custody in suitable private homes,… Proofed
49-3-20 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Investigation as to Inmates of Various State Institutions The state board of children’s guardians shall, upon the request of the state board of control, investigate, visit, and report to the state board of control rega… Proofed
49-3-21 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Family Case Work Investigations The state board of children’s guardians shall also, upon the request of the state board of control, make family case work investigations of children who are men… Proofed
49-3-22 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Investigation of Applications for Admission to State Schools and Hospitals The state board of children’s guardians may, upon the request of the principal of the schools for the deaf, dumb and blind, also investigate applications for ad… Proofed
49-3-23 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Supervision of Homes, Hospitals or Institutions by Board All institutions, hospitals, lying-in or maternity homes, or associations receiving children for the purpose of care, training or placing in other institutions … Proofed
49-3-24 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Board to Examine Articles of Incorporation of Certain Institutions No association whose objects embrace the caring for, training or placing in institutions or private homes of, delinquent, dependent or neglected children shall … Proofed
49-3-25 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Authority to Consent to Adoption of Children Whenever a petition filed as provided in section eight of this article, or a supplemental petition filed at any time after the appointment of the guardian, shal… Proofed
49-3-26 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children When a Child May be Placed by, or Received in State From, Nonresident Association No association, incorporated or unincorporated, existing under the laws of any other state, shall place any child in any family home within this State, either w… Proofed
49-3-27 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Board to Gather and Publish Statistics The state board of children’s guardians shall gather statistics and study legislation and problems connected with dependent, delinquent, neglected and defective… Proofed
49-3-28 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE Board of Children’s Guardians; Dependent and Neglected Children Payment by County of Cost of Maintaining Child Committed to Board and Maintained at State’s Expense The county court of every county shall pay into the state treasury at the rate of fifty dollars a year on account of each child from the county who shall be com… Proofed
49-4-1 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE General Provisions as to Disposition and Care of Children Proceedings Not to be Evidence Against Child, or be Published Any evidence given in any cause or proceeding under this chapter, or any order, judgment or finding therein, shall not, in any civil, criminal or other cause or… Proofed
49-4-2 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE General Provisions as to Disposition and Care of Children Officer of Institution to Which Child Committed to be Guardian In every case under this chapter where a child is committed to an institution or association, the court or judge shall appoint the president, secretary or super… Proofed
49-4-3 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE General Provisions as to Disposition and Care of Children Religious Belief of Parents to be Observed The court in committing any child, or the state board of children’s guardians in placing any child, shall place such child as far as practicable in the care and… Proofed
49-4-4 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE General Provisions as to Disposition and Care of Children Parents Required to Contribute to Support of Child Placed in Home or Institution or Under Guardianship If it shall appear upon the hearing of any case under this chapter that the parents, parent, or any person or persons named in the petition who are in law liabl… Proofed
49-4-5 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE General Provisions as to Disposition and Care of Children Enforcement of Order for Support From Wages If the person so ordered to pay for the support, maintenance and education of a delinquent, dependent or neglected child shall be employed for wages, salary or … Proofed
49-4-6 Ch. 49 — CHILD WELFARE General Provisions as to Disposition and Care of Children Guardianship of Estate of Child Not Affected Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to give the guardian appointed hereunder the guardianship of the estate of the child, or to change the age of minorit… Proofed
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