ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 415
(Senators Buckalew and Sharpe, original sponsors)
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[Passed April 10, 1997; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend article twenty, chapter thirty-one of the code
of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
five-b, relating to prohibiting use or possession of tobacco
products by inmates held in facilities operated solely by
the regional jail and correctional facility authority.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article twenty, chapter thirty-one of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section five- b, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 20. WEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL
FACILITY AUTHORITY.
§31-20-5b. Prohibition against use or possession of tobacco
products by inmates held by regional facility authority in regional jails operated solely by the authority;
authorization to establish smoking cessation program.
Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary,
the authority shall prohibit the use or possession of tobacco
products by inmates held in facilities operated solely by the
authority. The authority may establish smoking cessation
programs to facilitate the prohibition set forth in this section.
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