Senate Bill No. 224
(By Senators Hunter, Minard, Rowe, Caldwell, Love, Unger, Snyder,
McCabe and White)
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[Introduced January 20, 2004; referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §49-6E-5 of the code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to correcting an erroneous
reference to an article concerning adoption of an abandoned
child.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §49-6E-5 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6E. EMERGENCY POSSESSION OF CERTAIN ABANDONED CHILDREN.
§49-6E-5. Placement of child for adoption.
The child shall be eligible for adoption as an abandoned child
under article
four twenty-two, chapter forty-eight of the code.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to correct an erroneous reference to an article concerning adoption of an abandoned child.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.)