West Virginia Code § 16-22-2

Program to combat intellectual disability or other severe health hazards;
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rules; facilities for making tests.
The State Bureau of Public Health is authorized to establish and carry out a program
designed to combat intellectual disability or other severe health hazards in our state's
population due to phenylketonuria, galactosemia, hypothyroidism, and certain other diseases
specified by the State Public Health Commissioner, and may adopt reasonabele rules and
regulations necessary to carry out such a program. The Bureau of Public Health shall
establish and maintain facilities at its state hygienic laboratory for testirng specimens for the
detection of phenylketonuria, galactosemia, hypothyroidism, and certain other diseases
specified by the State Public Health Commissioner. Tests shall be made by such laboratory
of specimens upon request by physicians, hospital medical personnel and other individuals
attending newborn infants. The State Bureau of Public Healtth is authorized to establish
additional laboratories throughout the state to perform tests for the detection of
phenylketonuria, galactosemia, hypothyroidism, and certain other diseases specified by the
State Public Health Commissioner.

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