(a) Each county may designate facilities, which are not hospitals or clinics, as 72-hour evaluation and treatment facilities and as 14-day intensive treatment facilities if the facilities meet those requirements as the Director of Health Care Services may establish by regulation. The Director of Health Care Services shall encourage the use by counties of appropriate facilities, which are not hospitals or clinics, for the evaluation and treatment of patients pursuant to this part.
(b) All regulations relating to the approval of facilities designated by the county for 72-hour treatment and evaluation and 14-day intensive treatment facilities, heretofore adopted by the State Department of Mental Health, or a successor, shall remain in effect and shall be fully enforceable by the State Department of Health Care Services with respect to any facility or program required to be approved as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation and 14-day intensive treatment facilities, unless and until readopted, amended, or repealed by the Director of Health Care Services. The State Department of Health Care Services shall succeed to and be vested with all duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health, or a successor, as they relate to approval of facilities for 72-hour treatment and evaluation and 14-day intensive treatment facilities.
(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 23, Sec. 38. (AB 82) Effective June 27, 2013.)
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