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
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
§16-4-11. 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
§16-4-23. 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