CHAPTER 3. Officers and Employees [4480. - 4499.]
Chapter 3 added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.
§§ 4480–4499 · 19 sections
- § 4480 As used in this article, “officers” of a state hospital means: (a) Clinical director. (b) Hospital administrator. (c) Hospital director.
- § 4481 (a) The Director of Developmental Services shall appoint and define the duties, subject to the laws governing civil service, of the clinical director and the…
- § 4482 The Director of the State Department of Developmental Services shall have the final authority for determining all other employee needs after consideration of…
- § 4483 Salaries of resident and other officers and wages of employees shall be included in the budget estimates of, and paid in the same manner as other expenses of,…
- § 4484 The primary purpose of a state hospital is the medical and nursing care of patients who are developmentally disabled. The efforts and direction of the officers…
- § 4485 Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, and under the supervision of the hospital director when the hospital director is the…
- § 4486 Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, under the supervision of the hospital director when the hospital director is the clinical…
- § 4487 The hospital director is the chief executive officer of the hospital and is responsible for all hospital operations. If the hospital director is the clinical…
- § 4488 As often as a vacancy occurs in a hospital under the jurisdiction of the Director of Developmental Services, he shall appoint, as provided in Section 4481, a…
- § 4489 The hospital director is responsible for the overall management of the hospital. In his absence one of the other hospital officers or in the absence of both…
- § 4491 The hospital administrator shall be responsible for preserving the peace in the hospital buildings and grounds and may arrest or cause the arrest and…
- § 4492 The hospital director may establish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law or departmental regulations, concerning the care and treatment of patients,…
- § 4493 The hospital administrator of each state hospital may designate, in writing, as a police officer, one or more of the bona fide employees of the hospital. The…
- § 4494 The Director of Developmental Services may set aside and designate any space on the grounds of any of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the department…
- § 4495 Wherever the term “superintendent” appears, the term shall be deemed to mean clinical director, except in Sections 4450, 4466, 4467, 4469, 7281, and 7289,…
- § 4496 Subject to rules and regulations adopted by the department, the hospital director may establish a sheltered workshop at a state hospital to provide patients…
- § 4497 At each state hospital at which there is established a sheltered workshop, there shall be a sheltered workshop fund administered by the clinical director. The…
- § 4498 To assure a continuous level of competency for all state hospital treatment personnel under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services,…
- § 4499 To assure an adequate supply of licensed psychiatric technicians for state hospitals for the developmentally disabled, the State Department of Developmental…