In case a medical or physical examination of any school board employee or qualified applicant who becomes an employee of the board for any school position is required by a board of education or by any administrator, department or agency of government which has authority to require such examination, the cost shall be paid in full by the employer.
It shall be unlawful for any board of education to require any employee or applicant who becomes an employee of the board to pay the cost of any medical or physical examination as a condition of employment.
The provisions of this section shall be effective from the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred seventy-five.
W. Va. Code § 18A-2-10