State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > West-virginia > 27 > 27-2-1§27-2-1. State hospitals and other facilities; transfer of control and property from department of mental health to department of health; civil service coverage.
The state hospitals heretofore established at Weston, Spencer, Huntington, Barboursville, Lakin, Guthrie, Roney's Point, St. Marys and Lewisburg shall be continued and known respectively as the Weston Hospital, Spencer Hospital, Huntington Hospital, Barboursville Hospital, Lakin Hospital, Guthrie Center, Roney's Point Center, Colin Anderson Center and the Greenbrier School for Retarded Children. Said state hospitals and centers shall be managed, directed and controlled by the department of health. Any person employed by the department of mental health who on the effective date of this article is a classified civil service employee shall, within the limits contained in section two, article six of chapter twenty-nine of this code, remain in the civil service system as a covered employee. The director of the department of health is hereby authorized to bring said hospitals into structural compliance with appropriate fire and health standards. All references in this code or elsewhere in law to the "West Virginia training school" shall be taken and construed to mean and refer to the "Colin Anderson Center."
The control of the property, records, and financial and other affairs of state mental hospitals and other state mental health facilities is hereby transferred from the department of mental health to the department of health. As the chief executive officer, the director of health shall, in respect to the control and management of such state hospitals and other state mental health facilities, perform the same duties and functions as were heretofore exercised or performed by the department of mental health. The title to all property of such state hospitals and other state facilities is hereby transferred to and vested in the department of health.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code to the contrary, whenever in this code there is a reference to the department of mental health, it shall be construed to mean and shall be a reference to the director of the department of health.
