CHAPTER 3. State Hospitals for the Developmentally Disabled [7500. - 7518.]
Heading of Chapter 3 renumbered from Chapter 4 by Stats. 1979, Ch. 373.
§§ 7500–7518 · 19 sections
- § 7500 There is established in the state, Porterville Developmental Center, in Tulare County, a state hospital for the care and treatment of persons with…
- § 7501 (a) The Department of General Services, in cooperation with the State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of State Hospitals, may…
- § 7501.5 (a) The Department of General Services, in cooperation with the State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of State Hospitals, may…
- § 7502 The state institution, the site for which was provided for by an appropriation made by Chapter 28 of the 55th (Fourth Extraordinary Session) Session of the…
- § 7502.5 (a) An individual may be admitted to the secure treatment facility at Porterville Developmental Center, as provided in paragraphs (1) and (3) of subdivision…
- § 7502.6 (a) Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, commencing September 28, 2018, and until June 30, 2024, or the opening of completed and licensed complex needs…
- § 7503 The object of each hospital is such care, treatment, habilitation, training, and education of the persons committed thereto as will render them more…
- § 7504 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter the provisions on state institutions in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 5 of this…
- § 7505 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the State Department of Developmental Services shall not admit anyone to a developmental center unless the person has been…
- § 7506 The primary purpose of each hospital for the developmentally disabled shall be the care, treatment and habilitation of those patients found suitable and duly…
- § 7507 Subject to the provisions of Sections 6509 and 7505, each developmental center shall admit persons duly committed or transferred thereto in accordance with law.
- § 7509 The State Department of State Hospitals and the State Department of Developmental Services shall prescribe and publish instructions and forms, in relation to…
- § 7513 Each developmentally disabled person and his or her estate shall pay the State Department of Developmental Services for the cost of such person’s care and…
- § 7513.1 The charge for the care and treatment of all developmentally disabled persons at state hospitals for the developmentally disabled for whom there is liability…
- § 7513.2 The State Department of Developmental Services shall collect all the costs and charges mentioned in Section 7513 and may take such action as is necessary to…
- § 7514 The State Department of Developmental Services may transfer any patient of a state hospital for the developmentally disabled to another state hospital for the…
- § 7515 The medical director may, with the approval of the department having jurisdiction, cause the peremptory discharge of any person who has been a patient for the…
- § 7516 Nothing in this division contained interferes with or affects the status of such patients as are now in the Sonoma State Hospital under terms of life tenure.
- § 7518 In accordance with this section, the medical director of a state hospital with programs for developmentally disabled patients, as defined in Section 4512, may…