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Senate Bill No. 606

(By Senators Wooton, Hunter, Sprouse, McCabe and Rowe)

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[Introduced March 26, 2001; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend article two, chapter forty-four-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirteen-a, relating to the time of entry of orders of guardianship and conservatorship under the West Virginia guardianship and conservatorship act.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article two, chapter forty-four-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirteen-a, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 2. PROCEDURE FOR APPOINTMENT.

44A-2-13a. Time of entry of orders.

An order appointing a guardian, a conservator, or both, or an order ruling on a petition or motion filed subsequent to an appointment, shall be entered by the court within fourteen days of the hearing on any such petition filed pursuant to this article if the trier of fact be the mental hygiene commissioner, or within seven days of the hearing if the circuit court judge conducts the hearing.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to specify the time of entry of orders of guardianship and conservatorship under the West Virginia Guardianship and Conservatorship Act.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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