West Virginia Code
Article 4. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
§16-4-4. Evidence of Infection

The following are prima facie grounds and reasons for suspecting that a person is infected with a sexually transmitted disease:
(a) Being a person who has been convicted in any court, or before a police judge, or before a magistrate, upon any charge growing out of sexual behavior;
(b) Being a person reported by a physician as infected with a sexually transmitted disease, where the person is afterwards reported as having failed to return for treatment; and
(c) Being a person designated in a sexually transmitted disease report as having a sexual exposure to the infected person reported.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 16. Public Health

Article 4. Sexually Transmitted Diseases

§16-4-1. Diseases Designated as Sexually Transmitted

§16-4-2. Investigations by Local Health Officers

§16-4-3. Medical Clinics and Detention Houses

§16-4-4. Evidence of Infection

§16-4-5. Examination of Convicts; Liability for Expenses

§16-4-6. Reports by Physicians

§16-4-7. False Report or Information

§16-4-8. Blanks and Fees for Reports

§16-4-9. Treatment

§16-4-10. Minors

§16-4-11. Precautions as to Exposure to Disease

§16-4-12. Persons Not Under Treatment

§16-4-13. Sources of Infection

§16-4-14. Issuance of Warrant or Order as to Custody

§16-4-15. Form and Execution of Warrant

§16-4-16. Hearing on Warrant; Detention

§16-4-17. Release From Detention

§16-4-18. Employment of Infected Person

§16-4-19. Voluntary Submission to Examination and Treatment; Charges; Disposition of Money Collected

§16-4-20. Communication of Disease; Certificate

§16-4-21. Quarantine

§16-4-22. Physicians to Furnish Statement of Qualifications and Facilities for Treatment of Venereal Diseases

§16-4-23. Costs and Expenses of Enforcement; Jointly Established Places of Detention

§16-4-24. Offenses by Druggists

§16-4-25. Advertisements Concerning Venereal Disease, etc.; Penalty; Exceptions

§16-4-26. Offenses Generally; Penalties; Jurisdiction of Justices; Complaints

§16-4-27. Additional Power and Authority of Local Health Officers

§16-4-28. Detention Places

§16-4-29. Detention and Treatment

§16-4-30. Continuous Jurisdiction