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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.