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West Virginia Health Care Decisions Act
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-1— Short title
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-2— Legislative findings and purpose
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-3— Definitions
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-4— Executing a living will, medical power of attorney, or combined medical power of attorney and living will
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-5— Applicability and resolving actual conflict between advance directives
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-6— Private decision-making process; authority of living will, medical power of attorney representative and surrogate
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-7— Determination of incapacity
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-8— Selection of a surrogate
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-9— Medical power of attorney representative and health care surrogate decision-making standards
- W. Va. Code § 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
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-11— Negligence
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-12— Conscience objections
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-13— Interinstitutional transfers
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-14— Insurance
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-15— Withholding of life support not assisted suicide or murder
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-16— Preservation of existing rights and relation to existing law; no presumption
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-17— No abrogation of common law doctrine of medical necessity
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-18— Revocation
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-19— Physician’s duty to confirm, communicate, and document terminal condition; medical record identification
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-20— Living wills previously executed
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-21— Reciprocity
- W. Va. Code § 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
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-23— Prohibition
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-24— Need for a second opinion regarding incapacity for persons with psychiatric mental illness, intellectual disability or addiction
- W. Va. Code § 16-30-25— Portable orders for scope of treatment form