Article 30 - WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH CARE DECISIONS ACT

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