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WV Code § 27-17-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 27. Mentally Ill Persons|Article 17. Group Residential Facilities|§27-17-1. Definitions

(a) "Developmental disability" means a chronic disability of a person which: (1) Is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments; (2) is likely to continue indefinitely; (3) results in substantial functional limitations in self-direction, capacity for independent living or economic self-sufficiency; and (4) reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary or generic care, treatment or other services which are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated.(b) "Behavioral disability" means a disability of a person which: (1) Is attributable to severe or persistent mental illness, emotional disorder or chemical dependency; and (2) results in substantial functional limitations in self-direction, capacity for independent living or economic self-sufficiency.(c) "Group residential facility" means a facility which is owned, leased or operated by a behavioral health service provider and which: (1) Provides residential services and supervision for individuals who are developmentally disabled or behaviorally disabled; (2) is occupied as a residence by not more than eight individuals who are developmentally disabled and not more than three supervisors or is occupied as a residence by not more than twelve individuals who are behaviorally disabled and not more than three supervisors; (3) is licensed by the Department of Health and Human Resources; and (4) complies with the state Fire Commission for residential facilities.(d) "Group residential home" means a building owned or leased by developmentally disabled or behaviorally disabled persons for purposes of establishing a personal residence. A behavioral health service provider may not lease a building to such persons if the provider is providing services to the persons without a license as provided for in this article.
WV Code § 27-17-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 27. Mentally Ill Persons|Article 17. Group Residential Facilities|§27-17-2. Permitted Use of Group Residential Facilities; Restrictions

Both a group residential facility and a group residential home shall be a permitted residential use of property for the purposes of zoning and shall be a permitted use in all zones or districts. No county commission, governing board of a municipality or planning commission shall require a group residential facility, its owner or operator, to obtain a conditional use permit, special use permit, special exception or variance for location of such facility in any zone or district.
WV Code § 27-17-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 27. Mentally Ill Persons|Article 17. Group Residential Facilities|§27-17-3. License From Secretary of Health and Human Resources; Regulations; and Penalties

(a) No group residential facility shall be established or operated unless a license is obtained from the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources. The secretary shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of 29A-3-1 et seq., including the operation of the group residential facility; a statement of the rights of patients in group residential facilities to ensure the adequate care and supervision of patients; and shall have the authority to investigate and inspect a facility, and may impose a civil money penalty, suspend or revoke the license for good cause after notice, hearing, and other due process rights as provided by legislative rule.(b) A group residential home is not required to obtain a license from the secretary.
WV Code § 27-17-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 27. Mentally Ill Persons|Article 17. Group Residential Facilities|§27-17-4. Exclusion by Private Agreement Void

Any restriction, reservation, condition, exception or covenant in any subdivision plan, deed, or other instrument of or pertaining to the transfer, sale, lease or use of property which would permit residential use of property but prohibit the use of such property as a group residential facility or group residential home shall, to the extent of such prohibition, be void as against the public policy of this state and shall be given no legal or equitable force or effect.
WV Code § 28-1-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 1. Commitment of Youthful Male Offenders|§28-1-1. Care of Youthful Male Offenders

The State Commissioner of Corrections shall be charged with the care, training and reformation of male youths of the state committed to his custody. Education of the male youths is subject to the provisions of section thirteen-f, article two, chapter eighteen of this code. All state facilities and institutions for such purpose shall be managed and controlled as prescribed in article one, chapter twenty-five of this code.
WV Code § 28-1-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 1. Commitment of Youthful Male Offenders|§28-1-4. Conveyance of Boys; Expenses

As soon as practicable after a youth, on any account, is committed to the custody of the state commissioner of public institutions, the papers in the case shall be mailed to the superintendent of the receiving youth facility, and such youth shall remain in the custody of the court pronouncing such commitment until he be delivered to an officer of the receiving youth facility, who shall be sent without delay and duly authorized by the superintendent to conduct such youth by the most direct and convenient route to said facility; but no youth committed to any facility shall be lodged in any jail or lockup, if he be under the age of sixteen years. The superintendent of a facility shall, insofar as is consistent with the safe conveyance of youths to the facility, cause as many youths as may be committed from the same or several counties to be conducted to the facility at the same time. The expense incurred in conducting a youth to a youth facility, including transportation and other necessary traveling expenses of the youth and of his conductor, shall be paid by the county court out of the treasury of the county from which the youth was committed to the facility, and a written statement of such necessary expenditures, fully itemized and sworn to by the officer making such expenditures, and attested by the superintendent of the facility, when presented to any county court, shall be a bill against such court, to be paid to the receiving facility and credited to that fund of the facility from which the original expenditure was made; but when two or more youths shall be so conducted from more than one county, the necessary expenditure on the personal account of the conductor shall be apportioned among the counties concerned in due proportion to the mileage traveled by the youths from their respective counties.
WV Code § 28-1-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 1. Commitment of Youthful Male Offenders|§28-1-5. Rules and Regulations

The State Commissioner of Corrections shall have authority to make such rules and regulations for the management and government of the facilities for youthful offenders under his control, and the instruction, discipline, training, employment and disposition of the boys and their transportation to and from the various facilities, subject to section thirteen-f, article two, chapter eighteen of this code, as the commissioner may deem proper.
WV Code § 28-1-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 1. Commitment of Youthful Male Offenders|§28-1-6. Discharge or Parole; Arrest and Return of Paroled Boys

The state commissioner of public institutions shall have authority, under such rules and regulations as the commissioner may prescribe, to grant, on the recommendation of the superintendent, a discharge or parole to any inmate of any of the various facilities; but while such inmate is on parole, and until he is discharged according to law, he shall remain in the legal custody of the commissioner of public institutions and subject at any time to be returned to physical custody, if in the judgment of the commissioner the interests of such paroled inmate will best be served thereby. The written order of said commissioner, countersigned by the superintendent, shall be sufficient warrant for any officer or person named therein to arrest and return to the facility the youth so paroled; and it shall be the duty of any such officer or person to arrest and return such youth to the facility. All actual expenses incurred in returning such youth to the facility shall be paid out of the funds appropriated for the maintenance of the facility.
WV Code § 28-1-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 1. Commitment of Youthful Male Offenders|§28-1-7. Transfer of Boys to and From Penitentiary

In any case where a youth is committed to any youth facility for an offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, and it is found by the state commissioner of public institutions that the youth facility is unable to benefit such youth, and that his presence is a detriment or menace to other youths in the institution, or to the general good of the facility, he may be returned to the court by which he was committed to the facility, and such court shall thereupon pass such sentence upon him as to confinement in the penitentiary as may be proper in the premises, or as it might have passed had it not committed him as a youthful offender. The Governor shall have power, when, in the judgment of the warden of the penitentiary and of the superintendent of the facility, it is advisable, to remit the penalty of any offender under the age of eighteen years confined in the penitentiary to a commitment to a youth facility.
WV Code § 28-1-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 1. Commitment of Youthful Male Offenders|§28-1-8. Offenses Relating to Youth Facilities; Penalties; Escape; Arrest and Return

If any person shall entice or attempt to entice away from any youth facility any youth legally committed to the same, or shall aid or abet any youth to escape therefrom, or shall harbor, conceal or aid or abet in harboring or concealing, any youth who shall have escaped therefrom, or shall, without the permission of the superintendent, give or sell, or aid or abet any other person to give or sell, to any youth in the youth facility, whether on the premises of such institution or otherwise, any money, firearms, intoxicating drinks, tobacco, cigarettes, or other articles whatsoever, or shall in any way cause or influence, or attempt to cause or influence or aid or abet therein, any youth in the youth facility to violate any rule of the institution or to rebel against the government of said facility in any particular, or shall receive by the hands of any such youth anything of value, whether belonging to the state or otherwise, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ten, nor more than $100, or be confined not more than twelve months in the county jail, or, in the discretion of the court, both fined and imprisoned. The superintendent, or any of his assistants, or any one authorized in writing by him or any sheriff, constable, policeman or other peace officer, shall have power, and it is hereby made his duty, to arrest any youth, when in his power to do so, who shall have escaped from said facility, and return him thereto.
WV Code § 28-2-1, (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 2. Industrial School for Colored Boys|§28-2-1,. 28-2-2

Repealed.Acts, 1969 Reg. Sess., Ch. 21.
WV Code § 28-3-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 3. Industrial Home for Youth|§28-3-1. Renaming West Virginia Industrial Home for Youth as Salem Correctional Center; Transferring Control to Division of Corrections

(a) Effective July 1, 2013, the West Virginia Industrial Home for Youth shall be known as the Salem Correctional Center. The Salem Correctional Center is hereby transferred to the Division of Corrections.(b) Commencing July 1, 2013, wherever the "West Virginia Industrial Home for Youth" is referred to in this code, it shall mean the "Salem Correctional Center".
WV Code § 28-4-1, (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 4. Industrial Home for Colored Girls|§28-4-1,. 28-4-2

Repealed.Acts, 1969 Reg. Sess., Ch. 21.
WV Code § 28-5-33 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 5. The Penitentiary|§28-5-33. Appointment of Committee of Convict; Bond

When a person is confined in the penitentiary of this or any other state, or of the United States, under sentence for one year or more, or to suffer death, the estate of such convict in this state, if he have any, both real and personal, shall, on the motion of any party interested, be committed by the county commission of the county in which his estate or some part thereof may be, to a person selected by such county commission, who, after giving bond before the county commission in such penalty as it may prescribe, shall have charge and management of such estate until the convict is discharged from confinement or dies; and upon such motion the county commission shall appoint said committee, although the convict has no estate, either real or personal, located in this state. In the event said convict has no such estate, or his estate does not exceed $1,000, reference to a fiduciary commissioner shall not be necessary. All appointments of committees heretofore made and decrees or judgments heretofore awarded by any court of record in this state against or on behalf of any convict shall not be considered invalid for the reason that the convict had no such estate at the time of the appointment of such committee.
WV Code § 28-5-34 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 5. The Penitentiary|§28-5-34. When Estate Committed to Sheriff as Committee

If the person so appointed refuse the trust, or fail to give bond as aforesaid, the county court, on like motion, shall, or such court may in the first instance, commit the estate to the sheriff of the county, who shall be the committee, and he and the sureties on his official bond shall be bound for the faithful performance of his trust.
WV Code § 28-5-35 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 5. The Penitentiary|§28-5-35. Appraisement, Inventories and Accounts by and Compensation of Committee

The committee shall have the estate appraised, return inventories, render accounts of his trust, and be made to account therefor, shall be entitled to compensation for his services, and may forfeit his right thereto, all in the same manner, to the same extent, and within the same time, as if he were an administrator or guardian.
WV Code § 28-5-36 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 5. The Penitentiary|§28-5-36. Suits by or Against Convict or Committee

Such committee may sue and be sued in respect to debts due to or from such convict, and respecting all other causes of action for which the convict might sue or be sued had no such incarceration taken place, and shall have the privilege of an administrator as to the right of retaining his own debt. No action or suit shall be instituted by or against such convict after he is incarcerated, and all actions or suits to which he is a party at the time of his incarceration shall abate, and continue so until revived by or against the committee, whose duty it shall be to prosecute or defend, as the case may be. Any judgment recovered against such committee shall be a lien upon the lands of the convict to the same extent as if recovered against the convict before the conviction. But the plaintiff in any action, suit or proceeding against the committee of a convict shall not be examined as a witness in his own behalf in such action, suit or proceeding in respect to any transaction or communication had personally with the convict, unless such committee shall be examined as a witness in his own behalf in respect to such transaction or communication, or such convict personally testifies, or his testimony in respect to such transaction or communication is given in evidence.
WV Code § 28-5-37 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 5. The Penitentiary|§28-5-37. Maintenance of Convict's Wife and Family

The committee of any convict who was, at the time of incarceration, a resident of this state shall allow (subject to the claims of creditors) a sufficient maintenance out of the convict's estate for his wife and family, if any; the wife to be entitled, as long as he is confined, to the profits of such portion of his estate as she would have if he had died intestate.
WV Code § 28-5-38 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 5. The Penitentiary|§28-5-38. Mortgage, Lease or Sale of Real Estate of Convicts

If the personal estate of such convict be insufficient for the discharge of his debts, or if such estate, or the residue thereof after payment of the debts, and the rents and profits of the real estate, be insufficient for the maintenance of the wife and family of such convict, when it is proper to make provision for such maintenance, his committee may proceed, as provided in article one, chapter thirty-seven, of this code, to obtain authority to mortgage, lease or sell so much of the real estate of such convict as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, setting forth in the bill or petition the particulars and the amount of the estate, real and personal, the application which may have been made of any personal estate, and an account of the debts and demands existing against the estate.
WV Code § 28-5-39 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 5. The Penitentiary|§28-5-39. Disposition of Estate on Discharge or Death of Convict

Every committee of a convict shall deliver such estate as he may be liable for at that time to the convict on his discharge, or to his heirs, devisees or personal representatives, on his death.
WV Code § 28-5-40 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 5. The Penitentiary|§28-5-40. How Estate of Nonresident Convict Paid Over to Foreign Committee

The committee or other similar fiduciary appointed in any other state for any convict who was a nonresident of this state at the time of his incarceration, and who at such time was possessed of estate within this state, may, in the manner and under the same conditions as are prescribed for the removal of the estate of a nonresident infant in article eleven, chapter forty-four, of this code, have the committee of such convict in this state authorized to pay over such estate to such committee or other similar fiduciary of such other state.
WV Code § 28-5C-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 5C. Imprisonment of Female Felons|§28-5C-1. Closure of West Virginia Prison for Women

The West Virginia prison for women, a penal institution exclusively for female prisoners, located at Pence Springs, Summers County, West Virginia is hereby closed. The title to all real property at the West Virginia prison for women is hereby transferred to and vested in the public land corporation of West Virginia: Provided, That the public land corporation shall promptly cause an inventory and an appraisal to be made of the real property and shall offer said real property for sale at public auction to be sold for not less than the appraised value, or the land corporation shall lease the real property upon such terms and conditions as it shall deem appropriate. The title to all personal property at the West Virginia prison for women remains vested in the state department of corrections.
WV Code § 28-5C-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 5C. Imprisonment of Female Felons|§28-5C-2. Commitment of Female Felons

Any adult female found guilty of committing a felony as defined in section one, article eleven, chapter sixty-one, who is not placed on probation in accordance with the provisions of article twelve, chapter sixty-two, shall be committed to the custody of the state department of corrections for the duration of her sentence. The commissioner of the state department of corrections shall, as he deems appropriate, either place female felons in state correctional institutions or contract with any person, corporation, governmental agency or other entity for their incarceration and care.
WV Code § 28-7-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions|Article 7. Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Adult Offenders|§28-7-2. State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision

(a) Within thirty days of the effective date of this article, there shall be created a state council for interstate adult offender supervision. Said state council shall be comprised of a total of nine members, to be selected and designated as follows:(1) Two members designated by the State Legislature, one of whom shall be named and appointed by the speaker of the House, and the other of whom shall be designated by the President of the Senate;(2) Two members designated by the judiciary, both of whom shall be named and appointed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia;(3) The compact administrator or a designee of the compact administrator;(4) Four members to be designated and appointed by the Governor, two of whom must be representatives of state agencies dealing with adult corrections, parole or probation, and one of whom must be a representative of a victims' group. (b) Within sixty days of the effective date of this article, the state council shall meet and designate a commissioner who shall represent the state as the compacting state's voting representative under article III of this compact. (c) The state council will exercise oversight and advocacy concerning West Virginia's participation in interstate commission activities and rule makings, and engage in other duties and activities as determined by its members, including, but not limited to, the development of policy concerning the operations and procedures for implementing the compact and interstate commission rules within West Virginia.