California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4425

CA Welf & Inst Code § 4425 (2017)  

The department shall keep in its office a record showing the following facts concerning each patient in custody in the several institutions:

(a) Name, residence, sex, age, place of birth, occupation, and civil condition.

(b) The date of commitment, and the respective names and residences of

(1) The person who made the petition for commitment,

(2) The persons who signed the medical certificate, and

(3) The judge who made the order of commitment.

(c) The name of the institution in which he is confined, the date of his admission thereto, and whether he was brought from his home or from another institution. If he was brought from another institution, the record shall show also the name of that institution, by whom he was brought therefrom and his condition.

(d) If discharged, the date of discharge, to whose care he was committed, and whether recovered, improved, unimproved, or not in need of commitment.

(e) If transferred, for what cause the transfer was made, and to what institution.

(f) If dead, the date and cause of death.

(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018