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WV Code § 16-6-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-14. Washrooms; Towels

All hotels in this state shall be provided with a general washroom convenient and of easy access to guests, and in each bedroom and general washroom there shall be furnished for each registered guest clean, individual towels, of cotton or linen, so that no two or more registered guests will be required to use the same towel, unless it has first been washed. Such individual towel shall not be less than twelve inches wide and eighteen inches long after being washed.
WV Code § 16-6-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-15. Beds and Floor Coverings

Every hotel shall provide each bed, bunk, cot, or other sleeping place for the use of guests with pillow slips and under and top sheets, the under sheet to be of sufficient size to completely cover the mattress and springs, and the top sheet to be of like width and at least ninety-nine inches long and not to be less than ninety inches in length after having been laundered. Such sheets and pillow slips shall be made of white cotton or linen, and all such sheets and pillow slips, after being used by one guest, shall be washed and ironed before being used by another guest, a clean set being furnished each succeeding guest. All bedding, including mattresses, quilts, blankets, pillows, and all carpets and floor covering used in any hotel in this state, shall be thoroughly aired, disinfected and kept clean.
WV Code § 16-6-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-16. Bedbugs

In every hotel, any room infected with vermin or bedbugs shall be fumigated, disinfected and renovated until said vermin or bedbugs are extirpated.
WV Code § 16-6-17 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-17. Employment of Person Having Communicable Disease

No person, firm or corporation engaged in conducting a hotel or a restaurant shall knowingly have in its employ any person who has an infectious or communicable disease.
WV Code § 16-6-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-18. Disinfection of Rooms and Beds; Penalty

Every person keeping or conducting a hotel shall see that every room or bed, which has been occupied by any person known to have an infectious or communicable disease at the time of such occupancy, is thoroughly disinfected by methods to be prescribed by the West Virginia board of health before such room or bed shall be occupied by any other person. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $300, and to confinement in jail not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of the court.
WV Code § 16-6-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-19. Hallways; Fire Escapes

Whenever it shall be proposed to erect a building three stories or more in height, intended for use as a hotel in this state, it shall be the duty of the owner or proprietor of such hotel to construct the same so that one main hallway on each floor above the ground floor shall run to an opening in the outside wall of the building. Every building used as a hotel shall comply with the provisions of this code pertaining to fire escapes. All fire escapes shall be indicated by a red light and a placard in each hallway leading to such fire escapes.
WV Code § 16-6-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-20. Knotted Rope or Other Fire Escape in Rooms; Exception

Each keeper of a hotel in this state shall provide and keep constantly in each room of the hotel, above the second floor, a knotted rope, wire ladder or other proper fire escape of sufficient strength and length, strongly attached or fastened to some outside window in said room, by which any person or persons in any of the rooms in such buildings may escape from the windows in case of fire: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to any hotel that has a regular and proper fire escape, connected with each hall in said hotel.
WV Code § 16-6-21 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-21. Fire Extinguishers

Every hotel shall be provided with one fire extinguisher, of style and size approved by the national board of fire underwriters, on each floor containing twenty-five hundred square feet of floor area; and one additional fire extinguisher on each floor for each additional twenty-five hundred square feet of floor area, or fraction thereof. Every such extinguisher shall be placed in a convenient location in the public hallway, outside of sleeping rooms, at or near the head of stairs, and shall always be in condition for use.
WV Code § 16-6-22 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-22. Liability of Hotel or Restaurant Keeper for Loss of Property; Deposit of Valuables

It shall be the duty of the keepers of hotels and restaurants to exercise due care and diligence in providing honest servants and employees, and to take every reasonable precaution to protect the persons and property of their guests and boarders, but no such keeper of any hotel or restaurant shall be held liable in a greater sum than $250 for the loss of any wearing apparel, baggage or other property, not hereinafter mentioned, belonging to a guest or boarder, when such loss takes place from the room or rooms occupied by said guest or boarder; and no keeper of a hotel or restaurant shall be held liable for any loss on the part of any guest or boarder of jewelry, money or other valuables of like nature, provided such keeper shall have posted in a conspicuous place in the room or rooms occupied by such guest or boarder, and in the hotel office and public reception room of such hotel or restaurant, a notice stating that jewelry, money and other valuables of like nature must be deposited in the office of such hotel (or restaurant), unless such loss shall take place from such office after such deposit.
WV Code § 16-6-22a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-22a. Sulfite Use Warning

[Repealed.]
WV Code § 16-6-22b (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-22b. Hotels and Restaurants to Secure Covers of Grease Traps

(a) This section applies to hotels and restaurants that use grease traps that are outdoors or are in areas that are accessible to members of the general public.(b)(1) Grease traps with manhole covers shall be designed to withstand expected loads and prevent access by children. (A) The manhole cover shall be secured by a bolt or locking mechanism and be constructed of round cast iron or similar construction with sufficient weight to prevent unauthorized access. (B) The commissioner may specify either method of limiting access to the manhole, if the method conforms to paragraph (A) of this subdivision and prevents unauthorized access.(2) A hotel or restaurant shall ensure that a grease trap manhole is closed and secured or locked, if applicable, at all times.(c) The secretary shall propose emergency rules for promulgation in accordance with 29A-3-1 et seq. of this code for the implementation and administration of this section. (d) All hotels and restaurants using grease traps shall comply with subsection (b) of this section no later than October 1, 2020.
WV Code § 16-6-23 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-23. Offenses

Any person, firm, or corporation operating a hotel or a restaurant in this state, or who shall let a building to be used for such purposes, without first having complied with the provisions of this article, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined $50 for each day the failure to comply continues.
WV Code § 16-6-24 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 6. Hotels and Restaurants|§16-6-24. Prosecution

The prosecuting attorney of each county in this state is hereby authorized and required, upon complaint under oath of the director of health, or other person or persons, to prosecute to termination before any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of the state, a proper action or proceeding against any person or persons violating the provisions of this article.
WV Code § 16-7-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 7. Pure Food and Drugs|§16-7-1. Manufacture or Sale of Adulterated Food or Drugs Prohibited; Definition of Terms

No person shall, within this state, manufacture for sale, offer for sale, or sell, any drug or article of food which is adulterated within the meaning of this article. The term "drug," as used herein, shall include all medicines for internal or external use, antiseptics, disinfectants and cosmetics. The term "food," as used herein, shall include all articles used for food, drink, confectionery or condiment by man, whether simple, mixed or compound.
WV Code § 16-7-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 7. Pure Food and Drugs|§16-7-3. Inspection and Analysis of Foods and Drugs; Certificate of Result as Prima Facie Evidence in Prosecution

Whenever the director of health, the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy, or any county or municipal health officer has reason to believe that any food or drug manufactured for sale, offered for sale, or sold within this state, is adulterated, such director or Board of Pharmacy, by its authorized agents, or such county or municipal health officer shall have the power, and it shall be his duty, to enter, during the usual hours of business, into any creamery, factory, store, salesroom, drugstore, laboratory or other place where he has reason to believe such food or drug is manufactured, prepared, sold or offered for sale, within the county or municipality, as the same may be, and to open any case, tub, jar, bottle or package containing, or supposed to contain, any such food or drug, and take a specimen thereof for examination and analysis. If less than a whole package is taken, the specimen shall be sealed and properly prepared for shipment to the person who shall make the analysis hereinafter provided for. No whole or less than a whole package taken and prepared for shipment shall be opened before it has been received by the analyst aforesaid.It shall be the duty of a qualified chemist of the state health department to test and analyze any such specimen, to record the result of his analysis among the records of the department, and to certify such findings to the director of health, the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy, or to the county or municipal health officers, as the case may be. If the analysis indicates that the said food or drug is adulterated, a certificate of such result, sworn to by the person making the analysis, who shall also state in his certificate the reasonable cost and expense of such analysis, shall be prima facie evidence of such adulteration in any prosecution under this article.
WV Code § 16-7-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 7. Pure Food and Drugs|§16-7-4. Penalty for Adulterating Food or Drugs, or for Manufacturing or Selling Adulterated Food or Drugs

Whoever, by himself or his agents, knowingly adulterates or causes to be adulterated any article of food or drug, or knowingly manufactures for sale, offers for sale, or sells, within this state, any article of food or drug which is adulterated within the meaning of this article, without making the same known to the buyer, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding $500, or confined in jail not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court; and in addition to the penalties hereinbefore provided, he shall be adjudged to pay the cost and expense of analyzing such adulterated food or drug, as set forth in the certificate of the person making the analysis, not exceeding $25 in any one case, which shall be included in the costs of such prosecution and taxed in favor of the state department of health or the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy, as the case may be; and if he be a registered pharmacist or assistant pharmacist, his name shall be stricken from the register. The adulterated article shall be forfeited and destroyed.
WV Code § 16-7-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 7. Pure Food and Drugs|§16-7-5. Regulations by State Bureau for Public Health as to Milk and Milk Products

The West Virginia Bureau for Public Health shall adopt regulations to provide clean and safe milk and fresh milk products and, when promulgated, these regulations shall be the minimum requirements to be enforced by local health authorities throughout the state: Provided, That except in any case where the milk or milk product involved creates, or appears to create, an imminent hazard to the public health, or in any case of a willful refusal to permit an authorized inspection, that any regulations promulgated by the Bureau for Public Health shall provide that prior to any suspension or revocation of a permit issued to any dairy farm, milk plant, receiving station, transfer station, and distribution station, the holder of such permit shall be served with a written notice to suspend or revoke such permit, which notice shall specify with particularity the violations in question and afford the holder reasonable opportunity to correct such violations: Provided, however, That the proposed order to deny, suspend, or revoke a permit may not be effective until notice in writing has been delivered to the holder of such permit who shall have 48 hours therefrom in which to make application to the county health officer for a hearing thereon. The county health officer shall, within 72 hours of receipt of such application, give a notice in writing to the holder of such permit setting forth the time and place of the hearing and proceed to a hearing to ascertain the facts of such violation and upon evidence presented at the hearing shall affirm, modify, or rescind the proposed order to suspend. A copy of the regulations shall be furnished to the Commissioner of Agriculture for his or her guidance in performing any duties with relation to milk and milk products imposed on him or her by law.Effective July 1, 2019, the Bureau for Public Health may no longer adopt or enforce regulations to provide clean and safe milk and fresh milk products. Effective July 1, 2019, all authority to regulate milk and milk products shall be transferred to the Department of Agriculture.
WV Code § 16-7-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 7. Pure Food and Drugs|§16-7-6. Killing Young Calves for Purpose of Sale

Whoever, by himself or his agents, kills, for the purpose of sale, any calf less than four weeks old, or sells, or has in his possession with the intent to sell, the meat of any calf which he knows to have been killed when less than four weeks old, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five nor more than $15, or imprisoned not more than sixty days, or both.
WV Code § 16-7-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 7. Pure Food and Drugs|§16-7-7. Selling, etc., of Meat or Shellfish Containing Preservatives; Penalties

If any person shall sell, ship, consign, offer for sale, expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell, as fresh, any meat, poultry, game, or shellfish which contains any substance, article or ingredient possessing a preservative character or action, or which contains any coal- tar dye, or any other substance or ingredient possessing a coloring character or action, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $100 and all costs, or shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than sixty days nor more than ninety days, or both, at the discretion of the court. Upon a second conviction he shall be fined not less than $200 nor more than $400, or be imprisoned not less than sixty days nor more than four months, or both, at the discretion of the court: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the use of ice as a preservative, or the use of refrigeration.
WV Code § 16-7-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 7. Pure Food and Drugs|§16-7-9. Enforcement; Disposition of Penalties

The State department of health shall be charged with the enforcement of all the provisions of this act and all penalties which may be recovered shall be paid to the treasurer of the State of West Virginia general fund.
WV Code § 16-7-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 7. Pure Food and Drugs|§16-7-10. Adulterated Articles to Be Forfeited and Destroyed

All articles adulterated in violation of the provisions of this act shall be forfeited by the owner and destroyed by the state department of health.
WV Code § 16-7-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 7. Pure Food and Drugs|§16-7-11. Effect of Repeal on Pending Actions

The repeal of inconsistent acts shall in no way interfere with or prevent the prosecution to final termination of any action or prosecution now pending, or which may hereafter be commenced for any violation of said act which has already been committed.
WV Code § 16-8-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 8. Electrologists|§16-8-1. Definitions

(a) "Electrology" means the art and practice relating to the removing of hair from the normal skin of the body by the application of an electric current to the hair papilla by means of a needle or needles, or by the application of an electronic tweezer having the electrical current flow through the hair and the follicle as in conventional electrolysis.(b) "Electrolysis" means the process by which hair is removed from the normal skin by the application of an electric current to the hair root by means of a needle, needles or electronic tweezer, whether the process employs direct electric current to the hair root or by means of shortwave alternating electric current.
WV Code § 16-8-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 8. Electrologists|§16-8-2. Regulations by State Board of Health Should This Be Secretary of the Department of Health and ; Minimum Requirements

The West Virginia board of health shall adopt rules and regulations, as in their judgment are necessary, to provide for the safe practice of electrology or electrolysis in this state, and when promulgated, these rules and regulations shall be the minimum requirements to be enforced by local health authorities throughout the state. All rules and regulations shall be promulgated in the manner provided by the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.
WV Code § 16-9-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 9. Offenses Generally|§16-9-2. Throwing or Releasing Dead Animals or Offensive Substances Into Waters Used for Domestic Purposes; Penalties; Jurisdiction; Failure to Bury or Destroy Offensive Substances After Conviction; Successive Offenses

Any person who knowingly and willfully throws, causes to be thrown or releases any dead animal, carcass, or part thereof, garbage, sink or shower waste, organic substance, human or animal excrement, contents of privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or the effluent from any cesspool or nauseous or offensive or poisonous substances into any well, cistern, spring, brook, pond, stream or other body of water which is used for domestic purposes, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $200. None of the provisions contained in this section shall apply to those commercial or industrial wastes which are subject to the regulatory control of the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection.Upon conviction of any such offense, the person convicted shall, within twenty-four hours after such conviction, remove and bury or cause to be buried at least three feet under the ground or destroy or cause to be destroyed as otherwise directed by the commissioner of the bureau of public health or his or her duly authorized representative any of such offensive materials which the person so convicted has thrown, caused to be thrown, released or knowingly permitted to remain in water used for domestic purposes, contrary to the provisions of this section, and his or her failure or refusal to do so is a misdemeanor and, a second violation of the provisions of this section. The continued failure or refusal of such convicted person to so bury or destroy such offensive materials is a separate, distinct and additional offense for each successive twenty-four hour period of such failure or refusal. Any person convicted of any offense described in this paragraph shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $200, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than ninety days, or both fined and imprisoned.
WV Code § 16-9-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 9. Offenses Generally|§16-9-3. Depositing Dead Animals or Offensive Substances in or Near Waters or on or Near Roads or on Public or Private Grounds; Penalties; Failure to Bury or Destroy Offensive Substances After Conviction; Successive Offenses

Any person (1) who throws, causes to be thrown or releases any dead animal, carcass, or part thereof, garbage, sink or shower waste, organic substances, contents of a privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or the effluent from any cesspool, spoiled meat or nauseous or offensive or poisonous substances into any river, creek or other stream, or upon the surface of any land adjacent to any river, creek or other stream in such a location that high water or normal drainage conditions will cause such offensive materials to be washed, drained or cast into the river, creek or other stream; or (2) who throws, or causes to be thrown or releases any of such offensive materials upon the surface of any road, right-of-way, street, alley, city or town lot, public ground, market space, common or private land, or (3) who, being the owner, lessee or occupant of any city or town lot, public ground, market space, common or private land knowingly permits any such offensive materials to remain thereon or neglects or refuses to remove or abate the public health menace or nuisance occasioned thereby, within twenty-four hours of the service of notice thereof in writing from the commissioner of the bureau of public health or his or her duly authorized representative, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000. None of the provisions contained in this section apply to those commercial or industrial wastes which are subject to the regulatory control of the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection.Upon a conviction for any such offense, the person shall, within twenty-four hours after such conviction, remove and bury or cause to be buried at least three feet under the ground, or destroy or cause to be destroyed as otherwise directed by the commissioner of the bureau of public health or his or her duly authorized representative, any of such offensive materials which the person so convicted has placed or knowingly permitted to remain upon such city or town lot, public ground, market space, common or private land, contrary to the provisions of this section. Such person's failure or refusal to do so is a misdemeanor and, a second offense against the provisions of this section. The continued failure or refusal of such convicted person to remove and bury or destroy such offensive materials is a separate, distinct and additional offense for each successive twenty-four-hour period of such failure and refusal. Any person convicted of any offense described in this paragraph shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than ninety days, or both fined and imprisoned.