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WV Code § 15A-12-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 15A. Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety|Article 12. West Virginia Fusion Center|§15A-12-4. Memoranda of Understanding Required

(a) Each governmental and nongovernmental entity participating in the West Virginia Fusion Center shall enter a memorandum of understanding between the West Virginia Fusion Center and the participating entity. The memorandum of understanding shall at a minimum:(1) Provide a framework and working mechanism for the organization of the West Virginia Fusion Center to address issues that are common to city, county, state, and federal governments obligations to protect the safety and well-being of citizens and to enhance the success of the Fusion Center in responding to criminal, terrorist, and other threats to public safety through the achievement of coordination and cooperation;(2) Clarify the working relationships between the governmental and nongovernmental entities and use limitations of shared information; and(3) Outline the intent of the parties regarding the information provided by the governmental and non- governmental entities to the West Virginia Fusion Center.(b) Nothing in any agreement shall obligate any nongovernmental entity to provide information nor establish any duty for any nongovernmental entity to assume any police or law enforcement responsibilities.(c) Failure of any governmental or nongovernmental entity to abide by the restrictions and use limitations set forth by the West Virginia Fusion Center may result in the suspension or termination of use privileges, discipline sanctions imposed by the users employing agency, or criminal prosecution.(d) Any and all interagency memoranda of understanding and participating public or private persons, organizations, entities, or agencies described in this section shall be subject to all restrictions and prohibitions described in this section.
WV Code § 15A-12-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 15A. Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety|Article 12. West Virginia Fusion Center|§15A-12-6. Receipt of Information; Immunity From Liability

(a) No cause of action for defamation, invasion of privacy, or negligence shall arise against any person by reason of that persons furnishing information concerning any suspected, anticipated, or completed criminal violation or terrorist activity when the information is provided to or received from the West Virginia Fusion Center or any federal, state, or local governmental or private sector entity established for the purpose of detecting and preventing acts of criminal activity or terrorism: Provided, That with regard to any Fusion Center intelligence or information gathering activity or operation against a U.S. Citizen related to alleged terrorism or violation of a law, such allegation must be vetted and confirmed by procedures substantially in compliance with those set forth in laws, rules, and regulations developed in accordance with 50 U.S.C. 3036(d). (b) No person shall be subject to such cause of action for cooperating with or furnishing evidence or information regarding any suspected criminal violation to the West Virginia Fusion Center.(c) This section shall not provide immunity for those disclosing or furnishing false information with malice or willful intent to injure any person, nor for any person who does not comply with the procedures set forth in 15A-9-6(a) of this code.(d) This section does not in any way abrogate or modify common law or statutory privilege or immunity heretofore enjoyed by any person or entity.
WV Code § 15A-12-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 15A. Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety|Article 12. West Virginia Fusion Center|§15A-12-8. Registration Plates to Official Vehicles Used in Agency Activities

Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles is authorized to issue Class A license plates to authorized state-owned vehicles operated by the West Virginia Fusion Center when the director signs a written affidavit stating that the vehicle or vehicles for which the plates are being requested will be used by the West Virginia Fusion Center in fulfilling its mission.
WV Code § 16-1-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 1. State Public Health System|§16-1-1. Purpose

It is the policy of this state to promote the physical and mental health of all of its citizens and to prevent disease, injury, and disability whenever possible. The state recognizes its responsibility to assist in the provision of essential public health services and establishes by this article a state public health system to work in conjunction with local boards of health to provide basic public health services that encourage healthy people in healthy communities.
WV Code § 16-1-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 1. State Public Health System|§16-1-3. Powers and Duties of the Secretary

(a) The secretary may establish a state public health system.(b) All powers and duties of the director of health previously established by former section ten of this article that are not specifically included in this chapter as powers and duties of the commissioner are powers and duties of the secretary.(c) As necessary for the effective, efficient and economical operation of the system, the secretary may from time to time delegate, assign, transfer or combine responsibilities or duties to or among employees of the department.(d) Within the limits of applicable federal law, the secretary may require every applicant for a license, permit, certificate of registration, or registration under this chapter to place his or her social security number on the application.
WV Code § 16-1-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 1. State Public Health System|§16-1-5. State Health Officer; Appointment; Qualifications; Term

The commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health is the state health officer and shall be appointed by the secretary. The commissioner shall be a physician licensed under the laws of this state to practice medicine or a person holding a doctorate degree in public health administration. The commissioner shall have not less than four years' experience in health services administration or a related field. The commissioner serves at the will and pleasure of the secretary and shall not be actively engaged or employed in any other business, vocation or employment, serving full time in the duties of the office as prescribed by this article.
WV Code § 16-1-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 1. State Public Health System|§16-1-7. Duties and Powers of the Commissioner; Service on Advisory Councils; Boards and Commissions; Authority to Designate a Representative to Serve in His or Her Place on Certain Boards and Commissions

(a) Effective July 1, 2012, the commissioner serves on the West Virginia Board of Medicine, provided in §30-3-1 et seq. of this code.  (b) Effective July 1, 2012, the commissioner serves on the following advisory councils, boards, and commissions:(1) The Advisory Committee on Cancer (Cancer Registry);(2) The Air Quality Board;(3) The Appalachian States Low-level Radioactive Waste Commission;(4) The Child Fatality Review Team;(5) The Childhood Immunization Advisory Committee;(6) The Early Intervention Coordinating Council;(7) The Interagency Council on Osteoporosis;(8) The Sewage Advisory Board;(9) The State Emergency Response Commission;(10) The State Groundwater Coordinating Committee;(11) The Water Development Authority;(12) The West Virginia Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing;(13) The West Virginia Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council; and(14) Any other advisory council, board, or commission as assigned by the secretary except for business, professional, or occupational licensing boards.(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, the commissioner may, at his or her discretion, designate in writing, a representative to serve in his or her stead at the meetings and in the duties of all boards and commissions on which the commissioner is designated as an ex officio member. The appropriately designated representative or proxy acts with the full power and authority of the commissioner in voting, acting upon matters concerning the public health and welfare, and other business that is properly the duty of any board or commission. The representative serves as proxy at the commissioner’s will and pleasure. The provisions of this section do not apply to the West Virginia Board of Medicine, the Air Quality Board, or other board, commission, or body on which the commissioner is designated by this code as chairman ex officio, secretary ex officio, or a board, commission, or body on which the commissioner is designated by this code as being that person whose signature must appear on licenses, minutes, or other documents necessary to carry out the intents and purposes of the board, commission, or body.
WV Code § 16-1-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 1. State Public Health System|§16-1-8. Duties and Powers of the Commissioner; Authorization to Cooperate With Any State Health Planning and Development Agencies and Any Federal Government Agencies in Hospital and Other Health Facility Programs

The commissioner at the direction of the secretary may cooperate with any state health planning and development agencies and any federal government agencies in programs for construction of public or private hospitals, diagnostic or treatment centers, chronic disease hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes and similar or related facilities and institutions. The commissioner may make inventories of existing public health centers, public and private hospitals, diagnostic or treatment centers, chronic disease hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes and similar or related facilities and institutions, and the laboratories and other facilities thereof, to make surveys of the need for construction of health facilities. The commissioner may adopt, develop and supervise the administration of the statewide plans or programs for the construction of additional public and private hospitals, public health centers, public or private diagnostic or treatment centers, chronic disease hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes and similar or related facilities and institutions, as may be necessary to comply with the requirements and conditions of federal law in respect to the granting of federal aid for those purposes. The commissioner, at the direction of the secretary, shall develop standards to assure that all requirements to obtain federal funds and meet the commitments for federal funds are met.The state health plan of operation set forth in this article and the state medical facilities plan shall be a part of the state health plan, as authorized by the provisions of article two-d of this chapter.
WV Code § 16-1-9b (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 1. State Public Health System|§16-1-9b. Permit Approval for Individual Systems With Surface Water Discharge; Reserve Areas

Individual systems with surface water discharge may be considered for approval for a permit pursuant to section nine of this article under the following conditions: (1) To correct existing failures when other means of treatment and disposal have proven ineffective; (2) on a tract, lot or parcel of land that equals or exceeds two acres which cannot qualify for standard or alternative soil absorption systems; or (3) on existing lots which received approval under a prior permit where it has been determined that applicable standards cannot be met to qualify for a standard or alternate soil absorption system. Approval under these conditions are applicable only to single family residential units.When installing a standard sewage disposal system, modified system, experimental system or other approved system, the reserve area shall consist of an area for the placement of the original system together with an area for replacement and upgrade of absorption field lines within the reserve area. Testing of the site for approval shall consist of a six foot hole and a percolation test of the soils.
WV Code § 16-1-9d (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 1. State Public Health System|§16-1-9d. Wellhead and Source Water Protection Grant Program

(a) The commissioner shall continue the Wellhead and Source Water Protection Grant Program.(b) The fund heretofore created to provide funds for the Wellhead and Source Water Protection Grant Program is continued in the State Treasury and shall be known as the Wellhead and Source Water Protection Grant Fund. The fund shall be administered by the commissioner and shall consist of all moneys made available for the program from any source, including, but not limited to, all fees, civil penalties and assessed costs, all gifts, grants, bequests or transfers from any source, any moneys that may be appropriated and designated for the program by the Legislature and all interest or other return earned from investment of the fund. Expenditures from the fund shall be for the purposes set forth in this article to provide water source protection pursuant to the program and are not authorized from collections but are to be made only in accordance with appropriation by the Legislature and in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twelve of this code and upon the fulfillment of the provisions set forth in article two, chapter eleven-b of this code: Provided, That for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2014, and 2015, expenditures are authorized from collections rather than pursuant to an explicit appropriation by the Legislature. Any balance, including accrued interest and other returns, remaining in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the General Revenue Fund but shall remain in the fund and be expended as provided by this section.(c) In prospectively awarding any grants under the Wellhead and Source Water Protection Grant Program, the commissioner shall prioritize those public water systems where there is the highest probability of contamination of the water source based on the source water assessment report or the source water protection plans which were previously performed. Priority shall also be extended to publicly owned public water systems over privately owned public water systems.(d) The commissioner, or his or her designee, shall apply for and diligently pursue all available federal funds to help offset the cost of completing source water protection plans by the deadlines established in section nine-c of this article.(e) The commissioner may receive any gift, federal grant, other grant, donation or bequest and receive income and other funds or appropriations to contribute to the Wellhead and Source Water Protection Grant Program.
WV Code § 16-1-9e (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 1. State Public Health System|§16-1-9e. Long-Term Medical Study

The Bureau for Public Health shall endeavor to engage the Centers for Disease Control and other federal agencies for the purpose of creating, organizing and implementing a medical study to assess any long-term health effects resulting from the chemical spill that occurred on January 9, 2014, and which exposed the public to chemicals, including 4-methylcyclohexane.The commissioner shall conduct such study pursuant to the authority granted to the commissioner pursuant to section six of this article: Provided, That in the event the commissioner determines that, in order to adequately perform such study, additional authority is required, the commissioner shall provide a report of such additional authority requested to the Governor and the Joint Committee on Government and Finance.The commissioner shall cause to be collected and preserved information from health providers who treated patients presenting with symptoms diagnosed as having been caused or exacerbated as a result of exposure related to the January 9, 2014, chemical spill. The commissioner shall analyze such data and other information deemed relevant by the commissioner and provide a report of the commissioner's findings regarding potential long-term health effects of the January 9, 2014, chemical spill to the Joint Committee on Health by January 1, 2015, including the results of its efforts to engage federal cooperation and assistance for a long-term comprehensive study on the costs of conducting such study on behalf of the state.
WV Code § 16-1-9f (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 1. State Public Health System|§16-1-9f. Inventory of Potential Sources of Significant Contamination

(a) The secretary, working in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, shall compile an inventory of all potential sources of significant contamination contained within a public water system's zone of critical concern and identify those that are not currently permitted or subject to regulation by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection under one or more articles of chapter twenty-two of this code. In compiling the inventory, the secretary shall use information provided in the registrations submitted pursuant to section four, article thirty, chapter twenty-two of this code, information provided to the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management pursuant to section 312 of the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, and other information available to the agency.(b) The department shall provide a copy of the compiled list of known potential sources of significant contamination in each zone of critical concern to the Department of Environmental Protection and the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
WV Code § 16-1-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 1. State Public Health System|§16-1-10. Disposition of Permit, License or Registration Fees Received by the Commissioner; Report to Auditor; Health Facility Licensing Account

(a) The commissioner shall receive and account for all moneys required to be paid as fees to the bureau for permits, licenses or registrations, pursuant to the provisions of this code and legislative rules.(b) Subject to the provisions set forth in section two, article two, chapter twelve of this code, there is continued in the state Treasury a separate account which shall be designated "the health facility licensing account." The commissioner shall deposit to the health facility licensing account all health facility licensing fees and may spend the moneys deposited in the health facility licensing account in accordance with the laws of this state to implement activities of health facility licensing. As part of the annual state budget, the Legislature shall appropriate for health facility licensure all moneys deposited in the health facilities licensing account.Any remaining balance including accrued interest in the account at the end of any fiscal year shall not revert to the General Revenue Fund, but shall remain in the account, and the moneys may be spent after appropriation by the Legislature in ensuing fiscal years. The commissioner shall make an annual report to the Legislature on the health facility licensing account, including the previous fiscal year's expenditures and projected expenditures for the next fiscal year.
WV Code § 16-1-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 1. State Public Health System|§16-1-11. Disposition of Fees for Services Charged and Received by the Commissioner; Health Services Fund

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the commissioner may assess and charge reasonable fees for the provision of services provided by the bureau: Provided, That no individual may be denied health care services by the bureau because of the inability of the individual to pay for services when services are provided to similarly situated individuals who have the ability to pay for them. The fees shall be deposited into a special revolving fund in the state Treasury designated the "health services fund."(b) Any balance including accrued interest in the special revolving fund at the end of any fiscal year shall not revert to the General Revenue Fund but shall remain in the fund for use by the commissioner for funding health programs in the ensuing fiscal years.(c) The commissioner may authorize reasonable fees for the provision of services by local boards of health as created in article two of this chapter: Provided, That no individual may be denied health care services by the local health department because of the inability of the individual to pay for services when services are provided to similarly situated individuals who have the ability to pay for them. The fees shall be deposited into the local board of health account for use by the local board for funding health programs. The commissioner shall establish the fees on a sliding fee basis determined by an individual's ability to pay: Provided, however, That the local board of health may submit a request through the administrator for third party reimbursement where the request is appropriate: Provided further, That local boards of health that establish fees shall annually submit a schedule of fees, a sliding fee scale and an accounting of amounts collected to the commissioner as part of its program plan or plan of operation.(d) The secretary shall propose legislative rules in accordance with article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, setting forth the fees established, assessed, and charged by the commissioner.