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West-Virginia
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Chapter 16. Public Health
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Article 30. West Virginia Health Care Decisions...
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