California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction and General Government

  • Section 4100.
    The department has jurisdiction over the following facilities:(a) Atascadero State Hospital.(b) Coalinga State Hospital.(c) Metropolitan State Hospital.(d) Napa State Hospital.(e) Patton State Hospital.(f) (1) The Admission, Evaluation, and Stabilization (AES) Center in...
  • Section 4100.2.
    (a) Commencing January 10, 2009, and each year thereafter, the State Department of Mental Health, or its successor, the State Department of State Hospitals, shall provide...
  • Section 4100.5.
    The department may contract with the State Department of Developmental Services to provide services to persons with mental disorders in state hospitals under the jurisdiction...
  • Section 4101.
    Except as otherwise specifically provided elsewhere in this code, all of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals shall be...
  • Section 4101.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the State Department of State Hospitals may contract with providers of health care services and health care network providers, including, but...
  • Section 4102.
    Each state hospital is a corporation.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1667.)
  • Section 4103.
    Each such corporation may acquire and hold in its corporate name by gift, grant, devise, or bequest property to be applied to the maintenance of...
  • Section 4104.
    All lands necessary for the use of the state hospitals specified in Section 4100, except those acquired by gift, devise, or purchase, shall be acquired...
  • Section 4105.
    The Director of General Services shall grant to the County of San Bernardino under such terms, conditions, and restrictions as he or she deems to...
  • Section 4106.
    Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4104, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of State Hospitals, may grant to the...
  • Section 4107.
    (a) The security of patients committed pursuant to Section 1026 of, and Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1367) of Title 10 of Part 2 of, the...
  • Section 4107.1.
    Consistent with the authority of the State Department of State Hospitals to maintain and operate state hospitals under its jurisdiction, the State Department of State...
  • Section 4109.
    The State Department of State Hospitals has general control and direction of the property and concerns of each state hospital specified in Section 4100. The...
  • Section 4109.5.
    (a) Whenever the department proposes the closure of a state hospital, it shall submit as part of the Governor’s proposed budget to the Legislature a complete...
  • Section 4110.
    The executive director shall provide detailed expenditure estimates of all anticipated hospital expenditures, all supplies, expenses, buildings, and improvements as required for the best interests...
  • Section 4111.
    The state hospitals may manufacture supplies and materials necessary or required to be used in any of the state hospitals which can be economically manufactured...
  • Section 4112.
    (a) All money belonging to the state and received by state hospitals from any source, except appropriations, shall, at the end of each month, be deposited...
  • Section 4112.1.
    Section 4112 does not apply to the funds known as the “sheltered workshop funds.”(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 722.)
  • Section 4113.
    The state hospitals and the officers thereof shall make such financial statements to the Controller as the Controller requires.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1967, Ch.
  • Section 4114.
    The executive director or other person in charge of a hospital shall, within 10 days after the admission of any person to the hospital, cause...
  • Section 4115.
    The department may permit, subject to such conditions and regulations as it may impose, any religious or missionary corporation or society to erect a building...
  • Section 4116.
    The department may establish and supervise under its rules and regulations training schools or courses for employees of the department or of state institutions under...
  • Section 4117.
    (a) Whenever a trial is had of any person charged with escape or attempt to escape from a state hospital, whenever a hearing is had on...
  • Section 4119.
    (a) The State Department of State Hospitals shall investigate and examine all nonresident persons residing in a state hospital and shall cause these persons, when found...
  • Section 4120.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, in determining residence for purposes of being entitled to hospitalization in this state and for purposes of returning...
  • Section 4121.
    (a) All expenses incurred in returning these persons to other states shall be paid by this state, the person, or his or her relatives, but the...
  • Section 4122.
    The State Department of State Hospitals, when it deems it necessary, may, under conditions prescribed by the director, transfer any patients of a state institution...
  • Section 4123.
    The Director of State Hospitals may authorize the transfer of persons from any institution within the department to any institution authorized by the federal government...
  • Section 4124.
    The State Department of State Hospitals shall send to the Department of Veterans Affairs whenever requested a list of all persons who have been patients...
  • Section 4125.
    (a) The director may deposit any funds of any patient in the possession of each hospital administrator of a state hospital in trust with the treasurer...
  • Section 4126.
    Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals dies, and any personal funds or property...
  • Section 4127.
    (a) Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals escapes, is discharged, or is on leave...
  • Section 4128.
    Before any money or other personal property or documents are delivered to the State Treasurer, State Controller, or public administrator, or sold at auction or...
  • Section 4129.
    At the time of delivering any money or other personal property to the State Treasurer or State Controller under the provisions of Section 4126 or...
  • Section 4130.
    When any personal property has been destroyed as provided in Sections 4126 or 4127, no suit shall thereafter be maintained by any person against the...
  • Section 4131.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of Sections 4126 and 4127 shall apply (1) to all money and other personal property delivered to...
  • Section 4132.
    (a) It is hereby declared that the provisions of this code reflect the concern of the Legislature that persons with mental health disorders are to be...
  • Section 4133.
    All day hospitals and rehabilitation centers maintained by the State Department of State Hospitals shall be subject to the provisions of this code pertaining to...
  • Section 4134.
    The state mental hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals shall comply with the California Food Sanitation Act, Article 1 (commencing...
  • Section 4135.
    Any person committed to the State Department of State Hospitals as a mentally abnormal sex offender shall remain a patient committed to the department for...
  • Section 4136.
    (a) Each patient in a state hospital who has resided in the state hospital for a period of at least 30 days shall be paid an...
  • Section 4137.
    Whenever a patient dies in a state mental hospital and the coroner finds that the death was by accident or at the hands of another...
  • Section 4138.
    (a) Upon receiving a request from the director of a state hospital listed in Section 4100, the Director of State Hospitals may prohibit the possession or...
  • Section 4139.
    (a) Except as otherwise authorized by law, or when authorized by the director of the state hospital, and except as provided in subdivision (b), a person...
  • Section 4141.
    (a) (1) Each state hospital shall update its injury and illness prevention plan at least once a year to include necessary safeguards to prevent workplace safety hazards...
  • Section 4142.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, whenever a patient is committed to the State Department of State Hospitals, a director of a state hospital or a clinician,...
  • Section 4143.
    (a) Commencing July 1, 2015, and subject to available funding, the State Department of State Hospitals may establish and maintain pilot enhanced treatment programs (ETPs), as...
  • Section 4144.
    (a) A state hospital psychiatrist or psychologist may refer a patient to a pilot enhanced treatment program (ETP), as defined in Section 1265.9 of the Health...
  • Section 4145.
    (a) The State Department of State Hospitals shall monitor the pilot enhanced treatment programs (ETP), evaluate outcomes, and report on its findings and recommendations. This report...
  • Section 4146.
    (a) This section applies in cases in which a patient has been committed to the department as a mentally disordered offender, including a person found not...

Last modified: October 22, 2018