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• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Welfare and Institutions Code.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code, in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3
  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 6
  Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify, or in any manner affect the scope, meaning,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 7
  Whenever, by the provisions of this code, a power is granted to a public officer or a duty imposed upon such an officer, the power...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 8
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required or authorized...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 9
  Whenever any reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, such reference shall apply to all...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 10
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned, and "subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 11
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future tense includes the present.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 12
  The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 13
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural number includes the singular.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 14
  "County" includes "city and county."
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 15
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 16
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 17
  "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 17.1
  Unless otherwise provided under the provisions of this code, to the extent not in conflict with federal law, the residence of a minor person shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 18
  If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 19
  It is the purpose of this code, in establishing programs and services which are designed to provide protection, support or care of children, to provide...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 19.1
  The purpose of the public social services for which state grants-in-aid are made to counties are: (a) To provide on behalf of the general public,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 21
  (a) Whenever any reference is made in any provision of this code to the "State Department of Benefit Payments" or the "Department of Benefit Payments"...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 22
  Whenever in any provision of law there is a reference to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 7 of the Welfare and Institutions...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 23
  Whenever in any provision of law there is a reference to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 7 of the Welfare and Institutions...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 24
  The provisions of Chapter 1129 of the Statutes of 1975 amending Sections 17.1, 739, 883, 1050, 1711, 1760.4, 10000, 10617, 11250.5, 11307, 11310, 11325, 17102...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 26
  (a) For purposes of this code, "assessed value" means 25 percent of full value to, and including, the 1980-81 fiscal year, and 100 percent of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 148
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Solicit" or any of its derivatives means to request directly or indirectly the giving of any kind of salvageable...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 148.1
  None of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to the activities of any organization or association of persons or any person engaged by or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 148.2
  Any organization qualified under Section 148.3 to solicit donations of salvageable personal property, or to sell salvageable personal property obtained by soliciting, shall: (a) maintain...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 148.3
  It shall be unlawful for any association of persons to engage, directly or indirectly, in soliciting donations of salvageable personal property, or in selling salvageable...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 148.4
  It shall be unlawful for any organization qualified under Section 148.3 to solicit donations of salvageable personal property, to contract with or otherwise engage any...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 148.5
  It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in soliciting donations of salvageable personal property except as an officer or agent of an organization...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 148.6
  Every organization qualified under Section 148.3 to solicit donations of salvageable personal property, shall furnish each officer or agent engaged to work as a solicitor...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 148.8
  The violation of any provision of this chapter by any person or organization is a misdemeanor. Any person who solicits a donation of salvageable personal...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 148.9
  The enactment of this chapter shall in no way limit or infringe upon the powers of counties and cities to impose additional requirements for the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 27
  Each agency and department responsible for listing in regulations the rights of children under this division shall incorporate the rights of foster children, as listed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 100
  The Judicial Council shall establish a planning and advisory group consisting of appropriate professional and program specialists to recommend on the development of program guidelines...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 101
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Adult" means a person 18 years of age or older. (b) "Child or minor"...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 102
  (a) Each CASA program shall, if feasible, be staffed by a minimum of one paid administrator. The staff shall be directly accountable to the presiding...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 103
  (a) Persons acting as a CASA shall be individuals who have demonstrated an interest in children and their welfare. Each CASA shall participate in a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 104
  (a) The court shall determine the extent of the CASA's duties in each case. These duties may include an independent investigation of the circumstances surrounding...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 105
  All otherwise confidential records and information acquired or reviewed by a CASA during the course of his or her duties shall remain confidential and shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 106
  The CASA shall be notified of hearings and other proceedings concerning the case to which he or she has been appointed.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 107
  Upon presentation of the order of his or her appointment by the CASA, and upon specific court order and consistent with the rules of evidence,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 108
  The Judicial Council shall report to the Legislature on the implementation of the program, and shall include recommendations on the continued funding and expansion of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 109
  Nothing in this chapter permits a person acting as a CASA to participate or appear in criminal proceedings or in proceedings to declare a person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 110
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting the right of an Indian tribe or Indian organization to establish or operate CASA programs independent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 200
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Arnold-Kennick Juvenile Court Law."
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 201
  The provisions of this chapter, insofar as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 202
  (a) The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the protection and safety of the public and each minor under the jurisdiction of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 202.5
  The duties of the probation officer, as described in this chapter with respect to minors alleged or adjudged to be described by Section 300, whether...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 203
  An order adjudging a minor to be a ward of the juvenile court shall not be deemed a conviction of a crime for any purpose,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 204
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except provisions of law governing the retention and storage of data, a family law court and a court hearing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 204.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the name of a minor may be disclosed to the public if the minor is 14 years of age...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 205
  All commitments to institutions or for placement in family homes under this chapter shall be, so far as practicable, either to institutions or for placement...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 206
  Persons taken into custody and persons alleged to be within the description of Section 300, or persons adjudged to be such and made dependent children...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 207
  (a) No minor shall be detained in any jail, lockup, juvenile hall, or other secure facility who is taken into custody solely upon the ground...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 207.1
  (a) No court, judge, referee, peace officer, or employee of a detention facility shall knowingly detain any minor in a jail or lockup, except as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 207.2
  (a) A minor who is held in temporary custody in a law enforcement facility that contains a lockup for adults pursuant to subdivision (d) of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 207.5
  Every person who misrepresents or falsely identifies himself or herself either verbally or by presenting any fraudulent written instrument to any probation officer, or to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 207.6
  A minor may be detained in a jail or other secure facility for the confinement of adults pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 207.1 or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 208
  (a) When any person under 18 years of age is detained in or sentenced to any institution in which adults are confined, it shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 208.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, in any case in which a minor who is detained in or committed to a county institution established for the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 209
  (a) The judge of the juvenile court of a county, or, if there is more than one judge, any of the judges of the juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 210
  The Board of Corrections shall adopt minimum standards for the operation and maintenance of juvenile halls for the confinement of minors.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 210.1
  The Board of Corrections shall develop guidelines for the operation and maintenance of nonsecure placement facilities for persons alleged or found to be persons coming...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 210.2
  (a) The Board of Corrections shall adopt regulations establishing standards for law enforcement facilities which contain lockups for adults and which are used for the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 210.5
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the best public interest to encourage innovations in staffing ratios, maximization of housing unit size, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 211
  (a) No person under the age of 14 years shall be committed to a state prison or be transferred thereto from any other institution. (b)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 212
  There shall be no fee for filing a petition under this chapter nor shall any fees be charged by any public officer for his services...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 213
  Any willful disobedience or interference with any lawful order of the juvenile court or of a judge or referee thereof constitutes a contempt of court.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 213.5
  (a) After a petition has been filed pursuant to Section 311 to declare a child a dependent child of the juvenile court, and until the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 213.6
  (a) If a person named in a temporary restraining order or emergency protective order issued under this part is personally served with the order and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 213.7
  (a) The court shall order that any party enjoined pursuant to Section 213.5, 304, 362.4, or 726.5 be prohibited from taking any action to obtain...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 214
  In each instance in which a provision of this chapter authorizes the execution by any person of a written promise to appear or to have...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 215
  As used in this chapter, unless otherwise specifically provided, the term "probation officer" or "social worker" shall include the juvenile probation officer or the person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 216
  This chapter shall not apply: (a) To any person who violates any law of this state defining a crime, and is at the time of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 217
  (a) The board of supervisors of any county or the governing body of any city may by ordinance provide that any personal property with a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 218
  In any case in which, pursuant to this chapter, the court appoints counsel to represent any person who desires but is unable to employ counsel,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 218.5
  All counsel performing duties under this chapter, including, but not limited to, county counsel, court appointed counsel, or volunteer counsel, shall participate in mandatory training...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 219
  The board of supervisors of a county may provide a ward of the juvenile court engaged in rehabilitative work without pay, under an assignment by...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 219.5
  (a) No ward of the juvenile court or Department of the Youth Authority shall perform any function that provides access to personal information of private...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 220
  No condition or restriction upon the obtaining of an abortion by a female detained in any local juvenile facility, pursuant to the Therapeutic Abortion Act...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 221
  (a) Any female confined in a state or local juvenile facility shall upon her request be allowed to continue to use materials necessary for (1)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 222
  (a) Any female in the custody of a local juvenile facility shall have the right to summon and receive the services of any physician and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 223
  (a) (1) The parents or guardians of any minor in the custody of the state or the county, if they can reasonably be located, shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 223.1
  (a) (1) At least one individual who is a parent, guardian, or designated emergency contact of a person in the custody of the Division of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) There is no resource that is more vital to the continued existence and integrity of Indian...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224.1
  (a) As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms "Indian," "Indian child," "Indian child's tribe," "Indian custodian," "Indian tribe," "reservation," and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224.2
  (a) If the court, a social worker, or probation officer knows or has reason to know that an Indian child is involved, any notice sent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224.3
  (a) The court, county welfare department, and the probation department have an affirmative and continuing duty to inquire whether a child for whom a petition...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224.4
  The Indian child's tribe and Indian custodian have the right to intervene at any point in an Indian child custody proceeding.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224.5
  In an Indian child custody proceeding, the court shall give full faith and credit to the public acts, records, judicial proceedings, and judgments of any...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224.6
  (a) When testimony of a "qualified expert witness" is required in an Indian child custody proceeding, a "qualified expert witness" may include, but is not...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224.70
  For the purposes of this article: (a) "Committed" means placed in a facility of the Division of Juvenile Facilities pursuant to a court order, independent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224.71
  It is the policy of the state that all youth confined in a facility of the Division of Juvenile Facilities shall have the following rights:...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224.72
  (a) Every facility of the Division of Juvenile Facilities shall provide each youth who is placed in the facility with an age and developmentally appropriate...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224.73
  All facilities of the Division of Juvenile Facilities shall ensure the safety and dignity of all youth in their care and shall provide care, placement,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 224.74
  (a) The Office of the Ombudspersons of the Division of Juvenile Facilities shall do all of the following: (1) Disseminate information on the rights of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 225
  In each county there shall be a juvenile justice commission consisting of not less than 7 and no more than 15 citizens. Two or more...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 226
  In lieu of county juvenile justice commissions, the boards of supervisors of two or more adjacent counties may agree to establish a regional juvenile justice...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 227
  The clerk of the court of the appointing judge shall immediately notify each person appointed a member of a county or regional juvenile justice commission...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 228
  A juvenile justice commission shall elect a chairman and vice chairman annually.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 229
  It shall be the duty of a juvenile justice commission to inquire into the administration of the juvenile court law in the county or region...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 229.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a juvenile justice commission may inquire into the operation of any group home that serves wards or dependent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 230
  A juvenile justice commission may recommend to any person charged with the administration of any of the provisions of this chapter such changes as it...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 231
  Members of a juvenile justice commission shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. Such reimbursement shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 232
  The board of supervisors may by ordinance provide for the establishment, support, and maintenance of one or more agencies or departments to cooperate with and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 233
  The board of supervisors may by ordinance provide for the establishment, support, and maintenance of a delinquency prevention commission, composed of not fewer than seven...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 233.5
  In a county having a population of over 6,000,000, the board of supervisors may assign the responsibility for assisting and advising the board and other...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 234
  The board of supervisors may by ordinance provide for the establishment, support, and maintenance of a delinquency prevention agency or department, or may assign delinquency...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 235
  The juvenile court and the probation department of any county may establish, or assist in the establishment of, any public council or committee having as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 236
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, probation departments may engage in activities designed to prevent juvenile delinquency. These activities include rendering direct and indirect services...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 240
  In counties having a population in excess of 6,000,000 in lieu of a county juvenile justice commission, there shall be a probation commission consisting of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 241
  The members of a probation commission appointed and holding office under prior provisions of law on January 1, 1977, shall continue in office and shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 241.1
  (a) Whenever a minor appears to come within the description of both Section 300 and Section 601 or 602, the county probation department and the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 241.2
  The Judicial Council shall collect and compile all of the data to be collected pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (e) of Section 241.1 and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 242
  The members of the probation commission shall hold office for four years and until their successors are appointed and qualify. Of those first appointed, however,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 243
  The probation commission shall function in an advisory capacity to the probation officer.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 245
  Each superior court shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred by this chapter, and while sitting in the exercise of such jurisdiction, shall be known and referred...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 245.5
  In addition to all other powers granted by law, the juvenile court may direct all such orders to the parent, parents, or guardian of a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 246
  The presiding judge of the superior court shall annually, in the month of January, designate one or more judges of the court to hear all...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 247.5
  The provisions of Sections 170 and 170.6 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply to a referee, provided, that the presiding judge of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 248
  A referee shall hear such cases as are assigned to him or her by the presiding judge of the juvenile court, with the same powers...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 248.5
  All written findings and orders of the court shall be served by the clerk of the court personally or by first-class mail within three judicial...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 249
  No order of a referee removing a minor from his home shall become effective until expressly approved by a judge of the juvenile court.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 250
  Except as provided in Section 251, all orders of a referee other than those specified in Section 249 shall become immediately effective, subject also to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 251
  The judge of the juvenile court, or in counties having more than one judge of the juvenile court, the presiding judge of the juvenile court...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 252
  At any time prior to the expiration of 10 days after service of a written copy of the order and findings of a referee, a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 253
  A judge of the juvenile court may, on his own motion made within 20 judicial days of the hearing before a referee, order a rehearing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 254
  All rehearings of matters heard before a referee shall be before a judge of the juvenile court and shall be conducted de novo.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 255
  The court may appoint as subordinate judicial officers one or more persons of suitable experience, who may be a probation officer or assistant or deputy...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 256
  Subject to the orders of the juvenile court, a juvenile hearing officer may hear and dispose of any case in which a minor under the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 256.5
  A juvenile hearing officer may request the juvenile court judge or referee to issue a warrant of arrest against a minor who is issued and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 257
  (a) (1) Except in the case of infraction violations, with the consent of the minor, a hearing before a juvenile hearing officer, or a hearing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 258
  (a) Upon a hearing conducted in accordance with Section 257, and upon either an admission by the minor of the commission of a violation charged,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 260
  A juvenile hearing officer shall promptly furnish a written report of his or her findings and orders to the clerk of the juvenile court. The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 261
  Subject to the provisions of Section 262, all orders of a juvenile hearing officer shall be immediately effective.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 262
  Upon motion of the minor or his or her parent or guardian for good cause, or upon his or her own motion, a judge of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 263
  At any time prior to the final disposition of a hearing pursuant to Section 257, the judge, referee, or juvenile hearing officer may, on motion...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 264
  At the direction and under the supervision of the Judicial Council, judges of the juvenile courts and juvenile court referees shall meet from time to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 265
  The Judicial Council shall establish rules governing practice and procedure in the juvenile court not inconsistent with law.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 270
  Except as provided in Section 69906.5 of the Government Code, there shall be in each county the offices of probation officer, assistant probation officer, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 271
  In counties having charters which provide a method of appointment and tenure of office for probation officers, assistant probation officers, deputy probation officers, and the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 272
  (a) (1) The board of supervisors may delegate to the county welfare department all or part of the duties of the probation officer concerning dependent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 273
  The probation officer may, within budgetary limitations established by the board of supervisors, employ such psychiatrists, psychologists, and other clinical experts as are required to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 274
  Each probation officer and each assistant and deputy probation officer receiving an official salary shall furnish a bond in the sum of not more than...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 275
  (a) For the purpose of handling the reimbursement and other payments provided for in this chapter, the probation officer or other county officer designated by...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 276
  In addition to the powers and duties of the probation officer elsewhere prescribed in this chapter, the probation officer is authorized to receive money, give...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 277
  The probation officer may authorize the sale of articles of handiwork made by wards under the jurisdiction of the probation officer to the public at...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 278
  The board of supervisors may delegate to the auditor or other county officer any of the functions of the probation officer authorized by Section 276...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 279
  The board of supervisors may impose a service charge at a uniform rate sufficient to defray the cost of services of the probation officer or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 280
  Except where waived by the probation officer, judge, or referee and the minor, the probation officer shall be present in court to represent the interests...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 281
  The probation officer shall upon order of any court in any matter involving the custody, status, or welfare of a minor or minors, make an...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 281.5
  If a probation officer determines to recommend to the court that a minor alleged to come within Section 300, 601, or 602, or adjudged to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 282
  At any time the judge of the juvenile court may, and upon the request of the county board of supervisors shall, require the probation officer...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 283
  Every probation officer, assistant probation officer, and deputy probation officer shall have the powers and authority conferred by law upon peace officers listed in Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 284
  All probation officers shall make such special and periodic reports to the Youth Authority as the authority may require and upon forms furnished by the
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 285
  All probation officers shall make periodic reports to the Attorney General at those times and in the manner prescribed by the Attorney General, provided that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 286
  Any person lawfully appointed to serve as a probation officer or assistant or deputy probation officer prior to the effective date of this section shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 290.1
  If the probation officer or social worker determines that the child shall be retained in custody, he or she shall immediately file a petition pursuant...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 290.2
  Upon the filing of a petition by a probation officer or social worker, the clerk of the juvenile court shall issue notice, to which shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 291
  After the initial petition hearing, the clerk of the court shall cause the notice to be served in the following manner: (a) Notice of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 292
  The social worker or probation officer shall give notice of the review hearing held pursuant to Section 364 in the following manner: (a) Notice of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 293
  The social worker or probation officer shall give notice of the review hearings held pursuant to Section 366.21 or 366.22 in the following manner: (a)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 294
  The social worker or probation officer shall give notice of a selection and implementation hearing held pursuant to Section 366.26 in the following manner: (a)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 295
  The social worker or probation officer shall give notice of review hearings held pursuant to Section 366.3 in the following manner: (a) Notice of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 296
  Upon any hearing or rehearing under this article, the court may order the child or any parent or guardian, or Indian custodian of the child...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 297
  (a) Notice required for an initial petition filed pursuant to Section 300 is applicable to a subsequent petition filed pursuant to Section 342. (b) Upon...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 300
  Any child who comes within any of the following descriptions is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court which may adjudge that person to be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 300.1
  Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 361 and Section 16507, family reunification services shall not be provided to a child adjudged a dependent pursuant to subdivision...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 300.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the purpose of the provisions of this chapter relating to dependent children is to provide maximum safety and protection...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 300.5
  In any case in which a child is alleged to come within the provisions of Section 300 on the basis that he or she is...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 301
  (a) In any case in which a social worker, after investigation of an application for petition or other investigation he or she is authorized to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 302
  (a) A juvenile court may assume jurisdiction over a child described in Section 300 regardless of whether the child was in the physical custody of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 303
  The court may retain jurisdiction over any person who is found to be a dependent child of the juvenile court until the ward or dependent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 304
  After a petition has been filed pursuant to Section 311, and until the time that the petition is dismissed or dependency is terminated, no other...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 304.7
  (a) On or before July 31, 1997, the Judicial Council shall develop and implement standards for the education and training of all judges who conduct...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 305
  Any peace officer may, without a warrant, take into temporary custody a minor: (a) When the officer has reasonable cause for believing that the minor...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 305.5
  (a) If an Indian child, who is a ward of a tribal court or resides or is domiciled within a reservation of an Indian tribe...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 305.6
  (a) Any peace officer may, without a warrant, take into temporary custody a minor who is in a hospital if the release of the minor...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 306
  (a) Any social worker in a county welfare department, or an Indian tribe that has entered into an agreement pursuant to Section 10553.1 while acting...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 306.5
  In any case in which a social worker takes a minor into custody pursuant to Section 306, the social worker shall, to the extent that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 306.6
  (a) In a dependency proceeding involving a child who would otherwise be an Indian child, based on the definition contained in paragraph (4) of Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 307
  A peace officer or probation officer who takes a minor into temporary custody under the provisions of Section 305 shall thereafter proceed as follows: (a)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 307.4
  (a) Any peace officer, probation officer, or social worker who takes into temporary custody pursuant to Sections 305 to 307, inclusive, a minor who comes...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 307.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 307, an officer who takes a minor suspected of being a person described in Section 300 into temporary custody pursuant...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 308
  (a) When a peace officer or social worker takes a minor into custody pursuant to this article, he or she shall take immediate steps to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 309
  (a) Upon delivery to the social worker of a child who has been taken into temporary custody under this article, the social worker shall immediately...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 310
  As a condition for the release of such minor, the probation officer may require such minor or his parent, guardian, or relative, or both, to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 311
  (a) If the probation officer determines that the minor shall be retained in custody, he or she shall immediately file a petition pursuant to Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 313
  (a) Whenever a minor is taken into custody by a peace officer or probation officer, except when such minor willfully misrepresents himself as 18 or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 314
  When a minor willfully misrepresents himself to be 18 or more years of age when taken into custody by a peace officer or probation officer,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 315
  If a minor has been taken into custody under this article and not released to a parent or guardian, the juvenile court shall hold a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 316
  Upon his or her appearance before the court at the detention hearing, each parent or guardian and the minor, if present, shall first be informed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 316.1
  (a) Upon his or her appearance before the court, each parent or guardian shall designate for the court his or her permanent mailing address. The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 316.2
  (a) At the detention hearing, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the court shall inquire of the mother and any other appropriate person as to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 317
  (a) (1) When it appears to the court that a parent or guardian of the child desires counsel but is presently financially unable to afford...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 317.5
  (a) All parties who are represented by counsel at dependency proceedings shall be entitled to competent counsel. (b) Each minor who is the subject of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 317.6
  (a) On or before January 1, 1996, the Judicial Council shall, after consulting with representatives from the State Bar of California, county counsels, district attorneys,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 318
  If a district attorney has represented a minor in a dependency proceeding, that district attorney shall not appear, on behalf of the people of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 318.5
  In a juvenile court hearing, where the parent or guardian is represented by counsel, the county counsel or district attorney shall, at the request of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 319
  (a) At the initial petition hearing, the court shall examine the child's parents, guardians, or other persons having relevant knowledge and hear the relevant evidence...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 319.1
  When the court finds a minor to be a person described by Section 300, and believes that the minor may need specialized mental health treatment...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 319.2
  Notwithstanding Section 319, when a child under the age of six years is not released from the custody of the court, the child may be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 321
  When a hearing is held under the provisions of this article and no parent or guardian of the minor is present and no parent or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 322
  Upon motion of the minor or a parent or guardian of such minor, the court shall continue any hearing or rehearing held under the provisions...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 323
  Upon any hearing or rehearing under the provisions of this article, the court may order such minor or any parent or guardian of such minor...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 324
  Whenever any minor is taken into temporary custody under the provisions of this article in any county other than the county in which the minor...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 324.5
  (a) Whenever allegations of physical or sexual abuse of a child come to the attention of a local law enforcement agency or the local child...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 325
  A proceeding in the juvenile court to declare a child to be a dependent child of the court is commenced by the filing with the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 326.5
  The Judicial Council shall adopt a rule of court effective July 1, 2001, that complies with the requirement of the federal Child Abuse Prevention and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 326.7
  Appointment of a guardian ad litem shall not be required for a minor who is a parent of the child who is the subject of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 327
  Either the juvenile court in the county in which a minor resides or in the county where the minor is found or in the county...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 328
  Whenever the social worker has cause to believe that there was or is within the county, or residing therein, a person described in Section 300,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 328.3
  Whenever any officer refers or delivers a minor pursuant to Section 307.5, the agency to which the minor is referred shall immediately make such investigation...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 329
  Whenever any person applies to the social worker to commence proceedings in the juvenile court, the application shall be in the form of an affidavit...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 331
  When any person has applied to the social worker, pursuant to Section 329, to commence juvenile court proceedings and the social worker fails to file...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 331.5
  When any officer has referred or delivered a child to an agency pursuant to Section 307.5, and that agency does not initiate a service program...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 332
  A petition to commence proceedings in the juvenile court to declare a child a ward or a dependent child of the court shall be verified...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 333
  Any petition filed in juvenile court to commence proceedings pursuant to this chapter that is not verified may be dismissed without prejudice by such court.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 334
  Upon the filing of the petition, the clerk of the juvenile court shall set the same for hearing within 30 days, except that in the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 338
  In addition to the notice provided in Sections 290.1 and 290.2 the juvenile court may issue its citation directing any parent or guardian of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 339
  In case such citation cannot be served, or the person served fails to obey it, or in any case in which it appears to the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 340
  Whenever a petition has been filed in the juvenile court alleging that a minor comes within Section 300 and praying for a hearing thereon, or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 340.5
  (a) Whenever pursuant to Article 10 (commencing with Section 360) a social worker is assigned to provide child welfare services, family reunification services, or other...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 341
  Upon request of the social worker, district attorney, the child, or the child's parent, guardian, or custodian, or on the court' s own motion, the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 342
  In any case in which a minor has been found to be a person described by Section 300 and the petitioner alleges new facts or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 345
  All cases under this chapter shall be heard at a special or separate session of the court, and no other matter shall be heard at...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 346
  Unless requested by a parent or guardian and consented to or requested by the minor concerning whom the petition has been filed, the public shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 347
  At any juvenile court hearing conducted by a juvenile court judge, an official court reporter shall, and at any such hearing conducted by a juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 348
  The provisions of Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 469) of Title 6 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to variance and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 349
  (a) A minor who is the subject of a juvenile court hearing and any person entitled to notice of the hearing under the provisions of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 350
  (a) (1) The judge of the juvenile court shall control all proceedings during the hearings with a view to the expeditious and effective ascertainment of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 352
  (a) Upon request of counsel for the parent, guardian, minor, or petitioner, the court may continue any hearing under this chapter beyond the time limit...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 353
  At the beginning of the hearing on a petition filed pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 325) of this chapter, the judge or clerk...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 353.1
  (a) At the hearing on a petition filed pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 325) of this chapter, any person adjudged a dependent child...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 354
  Except where a minor is in custody, any hearing on a petition filed pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 325) of this chapter may...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 355
  (a) At the jurisdictional hearing, the court shall first consider only the question whether the minor is a person described by Section 300. Any legally...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 355.1
  (a) Where the court finds, based upon competent professional evidence, that an injury, injuries, or detrimental condition sustained by a minor is of a nature...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 356
  After hearing the evidence, the court shall make a finding, noted in the minutes of the court, whether or not the minor is a person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 356.5
  A child advocate appointed by the court to represent the interests of a dependent child in a proceeding under this chapter shall have the same...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 357
  Whenever the court, before or during the hearing on the petition, is of the opinion that the minor is mentally ill or if the court...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 358
  (a) After finding that a child is a person described in Section 300, the court shall hear evidence on the question of the proper disposition...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 358.1
  Each social study or evaluation made by a social worker or child advocate appointed by the court, required to be received in evidence pursuant to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 359
  Whenever a minor who appears to be a danger to himself or others as a result of the use of narcotics (as defined in Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 360
  After receiving and considering the evidence on the proper disposition of the case, the juvenile court may enter judgment as follows: (a) Notwithstanding any other...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 361
  (a) In all cases in which a minor is adjudged a dependent child of the court on the ground that the minor is a person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 361.1
  (a) If a child is removed from the physical custody of a parent or guardian on the ground that the child may come within the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 361.2
  (a) When a court orders removal of a child pursuant to Section 361, the court shall first determine whether there is a parent of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 361.21
  (a) The court shall not order the placement of a minor in an out-of-state group home, unless the court finds, in its order of placement,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 361.3
  (a) In any case in which a child is removed from the physical custody of his or her parents pursuant to Section 361, preferential consideration...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 361.31
  (a) In any case in which an Indian child is removed from the physical custody of his or her parents or Indian custodian pursuant to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 361.4
  (a) Prior to placing a child in the home of a relative, or the home of any prospective guardian or other person who is not...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 361.45
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when the sudden unavailability of a foster caregiver requires a change in placement on an emergency basis for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 361.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), or when the parent has voluntarily relinquished the child and the relinquishment has been filed with the State...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 361.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 361.5, a party seeking an involuntary foster care placement of, or termination of parental rights over, an Indian child shall provide evidence...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 362
  (a) When a child is adjudged a dependent child of the court on the ground that the child is a person described by Section 300,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 362.04
  (a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Caregiver" means any licensed or certified foster parent, approved relative caregiver, or approved nonrelative extended family member. (2)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 362.05
  (a) Every child adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court shall be entitled to participate in age-appropriate extracurricular, enrichment, and social activities. No state...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 362.1
  (a) In order to maintain ties between the parent or guardian and any siblings and the child, and to provide information relevant to deciding if,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 362.2
  It is the intent of the Legislature that if a placement out-of-home is necessary pursuant to an individualized education program, that this placement be as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 362.3
  In addition to the notice provided in Sections 297 and 332, the juvenile court may issue its citation directing any parent, guardian, or foster parent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 362.4
  When the juvenile court terminates its jurisdiction over a minor who has been adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court prior to the minor's...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 362.6
  (a) When a hearing is requested pursuant to Section 1202.05 of the Penal Code, the sentencing court shall forward a copy of the request to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 362.7
  When the home of a nonrelative extended family member is being considered for placement of a child, the home shall be evaluated, and approval of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 363
  If the parent or person legally responsible for the care of any minor who is found to be a person described in Section 300 receives...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 364
  (a) Every hearing in which an order is made placing a child under the supervision of the juvenile court pursuant to Section 300 and in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 364.05
  Notwithstanding Section 364, in a county of the first class, a copy of the report required pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 364 shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 365
  The court may require the social worker or any other agency to render any periodic reports concerning children committed to its care, custody, and control...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366
  (a) (1) The status of every dependent child in foster care shall be reviewed periodically as determined by the court but no less frequently than...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.05
  Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 366.21, in a county of the first class, any supplemental report filed in connection with a status review hearing held...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.1
  Each supplemental report required to be filed pursuant to Section 366 shall include, but not be limited to, a factual discussion of each of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.21
  (a) Every hearing conducted by the juvenile court reviewing the status of a dependent child shall be placed on the appearance calendar. The court shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.22
  (a) When a case has been continued pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (g) of Section 366.21, the permanency review hearing shall occur within 18...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.23
  If a noncustodial parent is seeking placement or custody of a child, the social worker shall inform the caretaker that he or she has the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.25
  (a) (1) When a case has been continued pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 366.22, the subsequent permanency review hearing shall occur within 24 months...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.26
  (a) This section applies to children who are adjudged dependent children of the juvenile court pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 360. The procedures specified...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.27
  (a) If a court, pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (g) of Section 366.21, Section 366.22, Section 366.25, or Section 366.26, orders the placement of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.28
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that delays caused by appeals from court orders designating the specific placement of a dependent child after parental rights...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.29
  (a) When a court, pursuant to Section 366.26, orders that a dependent child be placed for adoption, nothing in the adoption laws of this state...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.3
  (a) If a juvenile court orders a permanent plan of adoption or legal guardianship pursuant to Section 360 or 366.26, the court shall retain jurisdiction...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.35
  (a) The implementation and operation of the amendments to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 366, subdivision (g) of Section 366.1,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.4
  (a) Any minor for whom a guardianship has been established resulting from the selection or implementation of a permanency plan pursuant to Section 366.26 is...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 366.5
  The dependency jurisdiction shall be suspended for a child whom the juvenile court declares to be a dual status child based on the joint assessment...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 367
  (a) Whenever a person has been adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court and has been committed or otherwise disposed of as provided in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 368
  In a case where the residence of a dependent child of the juvenile court is out of the state and in another state or foreign...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 369
  (a) Whenever any person is taken into temporary custody under Article 7 (commencing with Section 305) and is in need of medical, surgical, dental, or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 369.5
  (a) If a child is adjudged a dependent child of the court under Section 300 and the child has been removed from the physical custody...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 370
  The juvenile court may, in any case before it in which a petition has been filed as provided in Article 7 (commencing with Section 305),...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 375
  Whenever a petition is filed in the juvenile court of a county other than the residence of the person named in the petition, or whenever,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 376
  The expense of the transfer and all expenses in connection with the transfer and for the support and maintenance of such person shall be paid...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 377
  Whenever a case is transferred as provided in Section 375, the order of transfer shall recite each and all of the findings, orders, or modification...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 378
  Whenever an order of transfer from another county is filed with the clerk of any juvenile court, the clerk shall place the transfer order on...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 379
  In any action under the provisions of this article in which the residence of a minor person is determined, both the county in which the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 380
  Any person adjudged to be a dependent child of the juvenile court may be permitted by order of the court to reside in a county...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 385
  Any order made by the court in the case of any person subject to its jurisdiction may at any time be changed, modified, or set...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 386
  No order changing, modifying, or setting aside a previous order of the juvenile court shall be made either in chambers, or otherwise, unless prior notice...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 387
  (a) An order changing or modifying a previous order by removing a child from the physical custody of a parent, guardian, relative, or friend and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 388
  (a) Any parent or other person having an interest in a child who is a dependent child of the juvenile court or the child himself...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 389
  (a) In any case in which a petition has been filed with a juvenile court to commence proceedings to adjudge a person a dependent child...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 390
  A judge of the juvenile court in which a petition was filed, at any time before the minor reaches the age of 21 years, may...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 391
  (a) At any hearing to terminate jurisdiction over a dependent child who has reached the age of majority, the county welfare department shall do all...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 395
  (a) (1) A judgment in a proceeding under Section 300 may be appealed in the same manner as any final judgment, and any subsequent order...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 396
  It is the policy of the Legislature that foster care should be a temporary method of care for the children of this state, that children...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 397
  In order to carry out the policy stated in Section 396, each county welfare department or probation department shall report to the State Department of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 399
  Any minor being considered for placement in a foster home shall have the right to make a brief statement to the court making a decision...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 400
  Any county may institute a program of advocates for pupils in foster care placement. A participating county shall be responsible for the nonfederal costs of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 401
  The program shall utilize educational advocates to assist children in foster care through the educational system. To the extent possible, an advocate shall reflect the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 402
  An advocate and a county participating in this program shall be held harmless by the state when acting in their official capacity except for acts...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 403
  An advocate shall not be assigned to assist any minor in foster care placement who has been appointed a surrogate parent.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 404
  Any school district that has a foster youth services program shall not be eligible to participate in the program authorized by this chapter.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 500
  The Legislature hereby finds that a substantial and disproportionate amount of serious crime is committed by a relatively small number of chronic juvenile offenders commonly...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 501
  (a) There is hereby established in the Office of Criminal Justice Planning a program of financial assistance for law enforcement, district attorneys, probation departments, juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 502
  (a) An individual shall be the subject of the efforts of programs established pursuant to this article who has been previously adjudged a ward pursuant...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 503
  Programs funded under this article shall adopt and pursue the following policies: (a) Each participating law enforcement agency shall do all of the following: (1)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 504
  The judge of the juvenile court shall authorize the inspection of juvenile court records, probation and protective services records, district attorney records, school records, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 505
  Within three months of implementation of the program, all participating agencies in a county shall execute a written interagency agreement outlining their role in the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 506
  Law enforcement agencies and district attorneys participating in programs funded pursuant to this article shall adopt procedures to require a check of juvenile criminal history...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 601
  (a) Any person under the age of 18 years who persistently or habitually refuses to obey the reasonable and proper orders or directions of his...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 601.2
  In the event that a parent or guardian or person in charge of a minor described in Section 48264.5 of the Education Code fails to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 601.3
  (a) If the district attorney or the probation officer receives notice from the school district pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 48260.6 of the Education...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 601.4
  (a) The juvenile court judge may be assigned to sit as a superior court judge to hear any complaint alleging that a parent, guardian, or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 601.5
  (a) Any county may, upon adoption of a resolution by the board of supervisors, establish an At-Risk Youth Early Intervention Program designed to assess and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 602
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who is under the age of 18 years when he or she violates any law of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 602.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law and pursuant to the provisions of this section, the juvenile court shall commit any minor adjudicated to be a ward...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 602.5
  The juvenile court shall report the complete criminal history of any minor found to be a person adjudged to be a ward of the court...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 603
  (a) No court shall have jurisdiction to conduct a preliminary examination or to try the case of any person upon an accusatory pleading charging that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 603.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in a county that adopts the provisions of this section, jurisdiction over the case of a minor alleged...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 604
  (a) Whenever a case is before any court upon an accusatory pleading and it is suggested or appears to the judge before whom the person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 605
  Whenever a petition is filed in a juvenile court alleging that a minor is a person within the description of Section 602, and while the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 606
  When a petition has been filed in a juvenile court, the minor who is the subject of the petition shall not thereafter be subject to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 607
  (a) The court may retain jurisdiction over any person who is found to be a ward or dependent child of the juvenile court until the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 608
  In any case in which a person is alleged to be a person described in Section 601 or 602, or subdivision (a) of Section 604,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 618.5
  If a prosecuting attorney has appeared on behalf of the people of the State of California in any juvenile court hearing which is based upon...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 625
  A peace officer may, without a warrant, take into temporary custody a minor: (a) Who is under the age of 18 years when such officer...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 625.1
  Any minor who is taken into temporary custody pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 625, when the peace officer has reasonable cause for believing the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 625.2
  (a) Before administering the chemical test pursuant to Section 625.1, the peace officer shall give the following admonition: "I am asking you to take a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 625.3
  Notwithstanding Section 625, a minor who is 14 years of age or older and who is taken into custody by a peace officer for the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 625.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to accomplish the following purposes: (1) To safeguard the fiscal integrity of cities...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 626
  An officer who takes a minor into temporary custody under the provisions of Section 625 may do any of the following: (a) Release the minor....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 626.5
  If an officer who takes a minor into temporary custody under the provisions of Section 625 determines that the minor should be brought to the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 626.6
  Notwithstanding Section 626.5, any peace officer who takes a minor who is 14 years of age or older into temporary custody under Section 625.3 shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 627
  (a) When an officer takes a minor before a probation officer at a juvenile hall or to any other place of confinement pursuant to this...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 627.5
  In any case where a minor is taken before a probation officer pursuant to the provisions of Section 626 and it is alleged that such...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 628
  (a) Upon delivery to the probation officer of a minor who has been taken into temporary custody under the provisions of this article, the probation...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 628.1
  If the minor meets one or more of the criteria for detention under Section 628, but the probation officer believes that 24-hour secure detention is...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 629
  (a) As a condition for the release of a minor pursuant to Section 628.1 and subject to Sections 631 and 632, the probation officer shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 629.1
  Notwithstanding Section 628 or 628.1, whenever a minor who is 14 years of age or older is delivered to the custody of the probation officer...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 630
  (a) If the probation officer determines that the minor shall be retained in custody, he shall immediately proceed in accordance with Article 16 (commencing with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 630.1
  Upon reasonable notification by counsel representing the minor, his parents or guardian, the clerk of the court shall notify such counsel of the hearings in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 631
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), whenever a minor is taken into custody by a peace officer or probation officer, except when the minor...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 631.1
  When a minor willfully misrepresents himself to be 18 or more years of age when taken into custody by a peace officer or probation officer,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 632
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), unless sooner released, a minor taken into custody under the provisions of this article shall, as soon as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 633
  Upon his appearance before the court at the detention hearing, such minor and his parent or guardian, if present, shall first be informed of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 634
  When it appears to the court that the minor or his parent or guardian desires counsel but is unable to afford and cannot for that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 634.6
  Any counsel upon entering an appearance on behalf of a minor shall continue to represent that minor unless relieved by the court upon the substitution...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 635
  The court will examine the minor, his or her parent, legal guardian, or other person having relevant knowledge, hear relevant evidence the minor, his or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 635.1
  When the court finds a minor to be a person described by Section 602 and believes the minor may need specialized mental health treatment while...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 636
  (a) If it appears upon the hearing that the minor has violated an order of the juvenile court or has escaped from a commitment of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 636.1
  (a) When a minor is detained pursuant to Section 636 following a finding by the court that continuance in the home is contrary to the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 636.2
  The probation officer may operate and maintain nonsecure detention facilities, or may contract with public or private agencies offering such services, for those minors who...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 637
  When a hearing is held under the provisions of this article and no parent or guardian of such minor is present and no parent or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 638
  Upon motion of the minor or a parent or guardian of such minor, the court shall continue any hearing or rehearing held under the provisions...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 639
  Upon any hearing or rehearing under the provisions of this article, the court may order such minor or any parent or guardian of such minor...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 641
  Whenever any minor is taken into temporary custody under the provisions of this article in any county other than the county in which the minor...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 650
  (a) Juvenile court proceedings to declare a minor a ward of the court pursuant to Section 601 are commenced by the filing of a petition...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 651
  Proceedings under this chapter may be commenced either in the juvenile court for the county in which a minor resides, or in which a minor...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 652
  Whenever the probation officer has cause to believe that there was or is within the county, or residing therein, a person within the provisions of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 652.5
  Whenever an officer refers or delivers a minor pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 626, the agency to which the minor is referred or delivered...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 653
  Whenever any person applies to the probation officer or the district attorney in accordance with subdivision (e) of Section 601.3, to commence proceedings in the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 653.1
  Notwithstanding Section 653, in the case of an affidavit alleging that the minor committed an offense described in Section 602, the probation officer shall cause...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 653.5
  (a) Whenever any person applies to the probation officer to commence proceedings in the juvenile court, the application shall be in the form of an...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 653.7
  If the probation officer does not take action under Section 654 and does not file a petition in juvenile court within 21 court days after...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 654
  In any case in which a probation officer, after investigation of an application for a petition or any other investigation he or she is authorized...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 654.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 654 or any other provision of law, in any case in which a minor has been charged with a violation of Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 654.2
  (a) If a petition has been filed by the prosecuting attorney to declare a minor a ward of the court under Section 602, the court...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 654.3
  No minor shall be eligible for the program of supervision set forth in Section 654 or 654.2 in the following cases, except in an unusual...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 654.4
  Any minor who is placed in a program of supervision set forth in Section 654 or 654.2 for a violation of an offense involving the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 654.6
  A program of supervision pursuant to Section 654 or 654.2 for any minor described in Section 602 shall include constructive assignments that will help the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 655
  (a) When any person has applied to the probation officer, pursuant to Section 653, to request commencement of juvenile court proceedings to declare a minor...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 655.5
  When an officer has referred or delivered a minor pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 626, and the referral agency does not initiate a service...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 656
  A petition to commence proceedings in the juvenile court to declare a minor a ward of the court shall be verified and shall contain all...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 656.1
  Any petition alleging that the minor is a person described by Section 602 shall specify as to each count whether the crime charged is a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 656.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a victim shall have the right to present a victim impact statement in all juvenile court hearings concerning...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 656.5
  Any petition filed in juvenile court to commence proceedings pursuant to this chapter that is not verified may be dismissed without prejudice by such court.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 657
  (a) Upon the filing of the petition, the clerk of the juvenile court shall set the same for hearing within 30 days, except as follows:...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 658
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), upon the filing of the petition, the clerk of the juvenile court shall issue a notice, to which...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 659
  The notice shall contain all of the following: (a) The name and address of the person to whom the notice is directed. (b) The date,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 660
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if the minor is detained, the clerk of the juvenile court shall cause the notice and copy of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 660.5
  (a) This section shall be known as the Expedited Youth Accountability Program. It shall be operative in the superior court in Los Angeles County. It...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 661
  In addition to the notice provided in Sections 658 and 659, the juvenile court may issue its citation directing any parent, guardian, or foster parent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 662
  In case such citation cannot be served, or the person served fails to obey it, or in any case in which it appears to the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 663
  (a) Whenever a petition has been filed in the juvenile court alleging that a minor comes within the provisions of Section 601 or 602 of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 664
  (a) The district attorney or the attorney of record for the minor may issue, and upon request of the probation officer, the minor, or the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 675
  (a) All cases under the provisions of this chapter shall be heard at a special or separate session of the court, and no other matter...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 676
  (a) Unless requested by the minor concerning whom the petition has been filed and any parent or guardian present, the public shall not be admitted...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 676.5
  The right of victims of juvenile offenses to be present during juvenile proceedings, as specified in subdivision (a), shall be secured as follows: (a) Notwithstanding...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 677
  At any juvenile court hearing conducted by a juvenile court judge, an official court reporter shall, and at any such hearing conducted by a juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 678
  The provisions of Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 469) of Title 6 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to variance and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 679
  A minor who is the subject of a juvenile court hearing and any person entitled to notice of the hearing under the provisions of Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 680
  The judge of the juvenile court shall control all proceedings during the hearings with a view to the expeditious and effective ascertainment of the jurisdictional...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 681
  (a) In a juvenile court hearing which is based upon a petition that alleges that the minor upon whose behalf the petition is being brought...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 618.5
  If a prosecuting attorney has appeared on behalf of the people of the State of California in any juvenile court hearing which is based upon...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 682
  (a) To continue any hearing relating to proceedings pursuant to Section 601 or 602, regardless of the custody status of the minor, beyond the time...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 700
  At the beginning of the hearing on a petition filed pursuant to Article 16 (commencing with Section 650) of this chapter, the judge or clerk...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 700.1
  Any motion to suppress as evidence any tangible or intangible thing obtained as a result of an unlawful search or seizure shall be heard prior...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 700.2
  Upon his or her appearance before the juvenile court on a complaint charging violation of Section 48293 of the Education Code, the juvenile court shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 701
  At the hearing, the court shall first consider only the question whether the minor is a person described by Section 300, 601, or 602. The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 701.1
  At the hearing, the court, on motion of the minor or on its own motion, shall order that the petition be dismissed and that the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 702
  After hearing the evidence, the court shall make a finding, noted in the minutes of the court, whether or not the minor is a person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 702.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (a) When a minor denies, by a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, the allegations of a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 702.5
  In any hearing conducted pursuant to Section 701 or 702 to determine whether a minor is a person described in Section 601 or 602, the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 704
  (a) If the court has determined that a minor is a person described by Section 602, or if the court has determined that a minor...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 705
  Whenever the court, before or during the hearing on the petition, is of the opinion that the minor is mentally disordered or if the court...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 706
  After finding that a minor is a person described in Section 601 or 602, the court shall hear evidence on the question of the proper...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 706.5
  (a) If placement in foster care is recommended by the probation officer, or where the minor is already in foster care placement or pending placement...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 706.6
  A case plan prepared as required by Section 706.5 shall be submitted to the court. It shall either be attached to the social study or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 707
  (a) (1) In any case in which a minor is alleged to be a person described in subdivision (a) of Section 602 by reason of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 707.01
  (a) If a minor is found an unfit subject to be dealt with under the juvenile court law pursuant to Section 707, then the following...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 707.1
  (a) If the minor is declared not a fit and proper subject to be dealt with under the juvenile court law, or as to a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 707.2
  (a) Prior to sentence and after considering a recommendation on the issue which shall be made by the probation department, the court of criminal jurisdiction...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 707.4
  In any case arising under this article in which there is no conviction in the criminal court, the clerk of the criminal court shall report...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 708
  Whenever a minor who appears to be a danger to himself or herself or others as a result of the use of controlled substances (as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 710
  (a) Sections 711, 712, and 713 shall not be applicable in a county unless the application of those sections in the county has been approved...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 711
  (a) When it appears to the court, or upon request of the prosecutor or counsel for the minor, at any time, that a minor who...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 712
  (a) The evaluation ordered by the court under Section 711 shall be made, in accordance with the provisions of Section 741, by an appropriate and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 713
  (a) For any minor described in Section 711 who is determined by the court under Section 712 to be seriously emotionally disturbed, have a serious...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 714
  A regional center, as described in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 4620) of Division 4.5, shall not be required to provide assessments or services to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 725
  After receiving and considering the evidence on the proper disposition of the case, the court may enter judgment as follows: (a) If the court has...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 725.5
  In determining the judgment and order to be made in any case in which the minor is found to be a person described in Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 726
  (a) In all cases in which a minor is adjudged a ward or dependent child of the court, the court may limit the control to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 726.4
  (a) At the disposition hearing, in any case where the court orders the care, custody, and control of the minor to be under the supervision...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 726.5
  (a) At any time when (1) the minor is a ward of the juvenile court under Section 725, or the court terminates wardship while the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727
  (a) When a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described by Section 601...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.1
  (a) When the court orders the care, custody, and control of the minor to be under the supervision of the probation officer for foster care...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.2
  The purpose of this section is to provide a means to monitor the safety and well-being of every minor in foster care who has been...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.3
  The purpose of this section is to provide a means to monitor the safety and well-being of every minor in foster care who has been...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.31
  (a) This section applies to all minors placed in out-of-home care pursuant to Section 727.2 or 727.3 and for whom the juvenile court orders a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.32
  (a) In any case where a minor has been declared a ward of the juvenile court and has been in foster care for 15 of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.4
  (a) (1) Notice of any hearing pursuant to Section 727, 727.2, or 727.3 shall be mailed by the probation officer to the minor, the minor's...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.5
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601, the court may order the minor to perform community service, including, but...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.6
  Where any minor has been adjudged a ward of the court for the commission of a "sexually violent offense," as defined in Section 6600, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.7
  (a) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of a gang-related offense, and the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 728
  (a) The juvenile court may terminate or modify a guardianship of the person of a minor previously established under the Probate Code, or appoint a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of a battery on school property as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.1
  (a) (1) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of a crime which takes...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.2
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601 or 602 and the court does not remove the minor from the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.3
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601 or 602 and the court does not remove the minor from the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.5
  (a) If a petition alleges that a minor is a person described by Section 602 and the petition is sustained, the court, in addition to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.6
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of an offense described in Section 241.2...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.7
  At the request of the victim, the probation officer shall assist in mediating a service contract between the victim and the minor under which the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.8
  (a) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the unlawful possession, use, sale, or other furnishing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.9
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of an offense involving the unlawful possession,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.10
  (a) Whenever, in any county specified in subdivision (b), a judge of a juvenile court or referee of a juvenile court finds a minor to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.12
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize an Assessment, Orientation, and Volunteer Mentor Pilot Program in San Diego County. The pilot project...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.13
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall recognize, on an annual basis, exemplary Californians who do any of the following: (1) Voluntarily participate in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 730
  (a) When a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described by Section 602,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 730.5
  When a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described in Section 602, in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 730.6
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that a victim of conduct for which a minor is found to be a person described...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 730.7
  (a) In a case in which a minor is ordered to make restitution to the victim or victims, or the minor is ordered to pay...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 730.8
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the court shall require any minor who is ordered to pay restitution pursuant to Section 730.6, or to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 731
  (a) If a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described by Section 602,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 731.1
  Notwithstanding any other law, the court committing a ward to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, upon the recommendation of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 731.2
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority and Fresno County may enter into a partnership for the establishment and maintenance of a pilot program juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 731.5
  In addition to the provisions of Section 731, if a minor's conduct constitutes a violation of Section 490.5 of the Penal Code, the court may...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 732
  Before a minor is conveyed to any state or county institution pursuant to this article, it shall be ascertained from the superintendent thereof that such...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 733
  A ward of the juvenile court who meets any condition described below shall not be committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 734
  No ward of the juvenile court shall be committed to the Youth Authority unless the judge of the court is fully satisfied that the mental...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 735
  Accompanying the commitment papers, the court shall send to the Director of the Youth Authority a summary of all the facts in the possession of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 736
  (a) Except as provided in Section 733, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, shall accept a ward committed to it pursuant...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 737
  (a) Whenever a person has been adjudged a ward of the juvenile court and has been committed or otherwise disposed of as provided in this...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 738
  In a case where the residence of a minor placed on probation under the provisions of Section 725 or of a ward of the juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 739
  (a) Whenever any person is taken into temporary custody under Article 15 (commencing with Section 625) and is in need of medical, surgical, dental, or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 739.5
  (a) If a minor who has been adjudged a ward of the court under Section 601 or 602 is removed from the physical custody of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 740
  (a) Any minor adjudged to be a ward of the court on the basis that he or she is a person described in Section 602...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 740.1
  (a) Any minor adjudged to be a ward of the court on the basis that he or she is a person described in Section 602...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 741
  The juvenile court may, in any case before it in which a petition has been filed as provided in Article 16 (commencing with Section 650),...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 742
  (a) Upon the request of an alleged victim of a crime, the probation officer shall, within 60 days of the final disposition of a case...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 742.10
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to accomplish the following purposes: (a) To assist public and private owners and possessors...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 742.12
  (a) As used in this article, the term "graffiti or other inscribed material" includes any unauthorized inscription, word, figure, mark, or design that is written,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 742.14
  (a) A city, county, or city and county may elect, by ordinance, to have the probation officer of the county recoup for it, through juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 742.16
  (a) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of an act prohibited by Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 742.18
  (a) If the petition alleges that the minor is the person described by Section 602 by reason of the commission of an act prohibited by...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 742.20
  Any moneys collected by the probation officer of the county pursuant to an order rendered pursuant to Section 742.16 shall be distributed by the county...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 742.22
  If any provision or clause of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.2
  The purpose of this section is to provide a means to monitor the safety and well-being of every minor in foster care who has been...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.3
  The purpose of this section is to provide a means to monitor the safety and well-being of every minor in foster care who has been...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.31
  (a) This section applies to all minors placed in out-of-home care pursuant to Section 727.2 or 727.3 and for whom the juvenile court orders a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.32
  (a) In any case where a minor has been declared a ward of the juvenile court and has been in foster care for 15 of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.4
  (a) (1) Notice of any hearing pursuant to Section 727, 727.2, or 727.3 shall be mailed by the probation officer to the minor, the minor's...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.5
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601, the court may order the minor to perform community service, including, but...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.6
  Where any minor has been adjudged a ward of the court for the commission of a "sexually violent offense," as defined in Section 6600, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 727.7
  (a) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of a gang-related offense, and the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 728
  (a) The juvenile court may terminate or modify a guardianship of the person of a minor previously established under the Probate Code, or appoint a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of a battery on school property as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.1
  (a) (1) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of a crime which takes...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.2
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601 or 602 and the court does not remove the minor from the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.3
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601 or 602 and the court does not remove the minor from the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.5
  (a) If a petition alleges that a minor is a person described by Section 602 and the petition is sustained, the court, in addition to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.6
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of an offense described in Section 241.2...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.7
  At the request of the victim, the probation officer shall assist in mediating a service contract between the victim and the minor under which the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.8
  (a) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the unlawful possession, use, sale, or other furnishing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.9
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of an offense involving the unlawful possession,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.10
  (a) Whenever, in any county specified in subdivision (b), a judge of a juvenile court or referee of a juvenile court finds a minor to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.12
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize an Assessment, Orientation, and Volunteer Mentor Pilot Program in San Diego County. The pilot project...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 729.13
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall recognize, on an annual basis, exemplary Californians who do any of the following: (1) Voluntarily participate in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 730
  (a) When a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described by Section 602,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 730.5
  When a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described in Section 602, in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 730.6
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that a victim of conduct for which a minor is found to be a person described...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 730.7
  (a) In a case in which a minor is ordered to make restitution to the victim or victims, or the minor is ordered to pay...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 730.8
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the court shall require any minor who is ordered to pay restitution pursuant to Section 730.6, or to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 731
  (a) If a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described by Section 602,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 731.1
  Notwithstanding any other law, the court committing a ward to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, upon the recommendation of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 731.2
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority and Fresno County may enter into a partnership for the establishment and maintenance of a pilot program juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 731.5
  In addition to the provisions of Section 731, if a minor's conduct constitutes a violation of Section 490.5 of the Penal Code, the court may...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 732
  Before a minor is conveyed to any state or county institution pursuant to this article, it shall be ascertained from the superintendent thereof that such...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 733
  A ward of the juvenile court who meets any condition described below shall not be committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 734
  No ward of the juvenile court shall be committed to the Youth Authority unless the judge of the court is fully satisfied that the mental...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 735
  Accompanying the commitment papers, the court shall send to the Director of the Youth Authority a summary of all the facts in the possession of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 736
  (a) Except as provided in Section 733, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, shall accept a ward committed to it pursuant...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 737
  (a) Whenever a person has been adjudged a ward of the juvenile court and has been committed or otherwise disposed of as provided in this...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 738
  In a case where the residence of a minor placed on probation under the provisions of Section 725 or of a ward of the juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 739
  (a) Whenever any person is taken into temporary custody under Article 15 (commencing with Section 625) and is in need of medical, surgical, dental, or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 739.5
  (a) If a minor who has been adjudged a ward of the court under Section 601 or 602 is removed from the physical custody of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 740
  (a) Any minor adjudged to be a ward of the court on the basis that he or she is a person described in Section 602...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 740.1
  (a) Any minor adjudged to be a ward of the court on the basis that he or she is a person described in Section 602...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 741
  The juvenile court may, in any case before it in which a petition has been filed as provided in Article 16 (commencing with Section 650),...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 742
  (a) Upon the request of an alleged victim of a crime, the probation officer shall, within 60 days of the final disposition of a case...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 743
  Contingent upon the appropriation of funds therefor, there is hereby established a three-year pilot project which shall be known as the "Repeat Offender Prevention Project."...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 744
  (a) The Repeat Offender Prevention Project shall be administered by the Board of Corrections and each program shall be under the onsite administration of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 745
  The Board of Corrections shall establish goals and deadlines against which the success or failure of the program demonstration projects may be measured. The board...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 746
  A minor shall be selected for participation in a program established pursuant to this article based upon the following factors: (a) The minor is 151/2...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 747
  The Board of Corrections shall adopt written minimum standards for project implementation, operation, and evaluation which shall include a written commitment by a county or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 748
  Each county or region shall, in implementing their respective programs, provide the following key intervention strategies to ensure the following: (a) Adequate levels of supervision,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749
  (a) The Board of Corrections shall be responsible for monitoring demonstration project and expansion program implementations in accordance with an annual program plan submitted by...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.2
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.21
  The Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program shall be administered by the Board of Corrections for the purpose of reducing juvenile crime and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.22
  To be eligible for this grant, each county shall be required to establish a multiagency juvenile justice coordinating council that shall develop and implement a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.23
  The Board of Corrections shall award grants that provide funding for three years. Funding shall be used to supplement, rather than supplant, existing programs and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.24
  The Board of Corrections shall establish minimum standards, funding schedules, and procedures for awarding grants, which shall take into consideration, but not be limited to,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.25
  The Board of Corrections may award up to a total of two million dollars ($2,000,000) statewide, in individual grants not exceeding one hundred and fifty...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.26
  The Board of Corrections shall create an evaluation design for the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program that will assess the effectiveness of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.27
  Funding for the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program for grant awards made before July 1, 1998, shall be provided from the amount...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.3
  This title shall be known and may be cited as the County Juvenile Correctional Facilities Act.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.31
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) While the County Correctional Capital Expenditure Bond Act of 1986 and the County Correctional Facility...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.32
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "County juvenile facilities" means county juvenile halls or camps. (b) "Board" means...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.33
  (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys may be available to the board for the purpose of awarding grants on a competitive basis to counties...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.24
  The Board of Corrections shall establish minimum standards, funding schedules, and procedures for awarding grants, which shall take into consideration, but not be limited to,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.25
  The Board of Corrections may award up to a total of two million dollars ($2,000,000) statewide, in individual grants not exceeding one hundred and fifty...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.26
  The Board of Corrections shall create an evaluation design for the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program that will assess the effectiveness of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.27
  Funding for the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program for grant awards made before July 1, 1998, shall be provided from the amount...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.5
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Juvenile Justice Community Reentry Challenge Grant Program.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.6
  It is the intent of the Legislature to support the systematic and cultural transformation of the Division of Juvenile Justice into a rehabilitative model that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.7
  (a) The Juvenile Justice Community Reentry Challenge Grant Program shall be administered by the Division of Juvenile Justice, in consultation with the Corrections Standards Authority,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.8
  (a) The Division of Juvenile Justice, in consultation with the Corrections Standards Authority, shall award grants that provide funding for three years on a competitive...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.9
  The Division of Juvenile Justice, in consultation with the Corrections Standards Authority, the Chief Probation Officers of California, and experts in the field of California...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 749.95
  (a) Each grant recipient shall be required to establish and track outcome measures, including, but not limited to: (1) Annual recidivism rates, including technical parole...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 750
  Whenever a petition is filed in the juvenile court of a county other than the residence of the person named in the petition, or whenever,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 751
  The expense of the transfer and all expenses in connection with the transfer and for the support and maintenance of such person shall be paid...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 752
  Whenever a case is transferred as provided in Section 750, a certified copy of the file may be made and forwarded to the county where...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 753
  Whenever an order of transfer from another county is filed with the clerk of any juvenile court, the clerk shall place the transfer order on...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 754
  In any action under the provisions of this article in which the residence of a minor person is determined, both the county in which the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 755
  Any person placed on probation by the juvenile court or adjudged to be a ward of the juvenile court may be permitted by order of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 775
  Any order made by the court in the case of any person subject to its jurisdiction may at any time be changed, modified, or set...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 776
  No order changing, modifying, or setting aside a previous order of the juvenile court shall be made either in chambers, or otherwise, unless prior notice...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 777
  An order changing or modifying a previous order by removing a minor from the physical custody of a parent, guardian, relative, or friend and directing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 778
  Any parent or other person having an interest in a child who is a ward of the juvenile court or the child himself through a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 779
  The court committing a ward to the Youth Authority may thereafter change, modify, or set aside the order of commitment. Ten days' notice of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 780
  If any person who has been committed to the Youth Authority appears to be an improper person to be received by or retained in any...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 781
  (a) In any case in which a petition has been filed with a juvenile court to commence proceedings to adjudge a person a ward of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 781.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 781, in any case where a minor has been cited to appear before a probation officer, has been taken before a probation...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 782
  A judge of the juvenile court in which a petition was filed, at any time before the minor reaches the age of 21 years, may...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 783
  An adjudication that a minor violated any of the provisions enumerated in subdivision (d) of Section 13202.5 of the Vehicle Code shall be reported to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 784
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon any adjudication that a minor violated any provision of law for which a report would be required under...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 785
  (a) Where a minor is a ward of the juvenile court, the wardship did not result in the minor's commitment to the Youth Authority, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 790
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 654 or 654.2, or any other provision of law, this article shall apply whenever a case is before the juvenile court for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 791
  (a) The prosecuting attorney's written notification to the minor shall also include all of the following: (1) A full description of the procedures for deferred...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 792
  The judge shall issue a citation directing any custodial parent, guardian, or foster parent of the minor to appear at the time and place set...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 793
  (a) If it appears to the prosecuting attorney, the court, or the probation department that the minor is not performing satisfactorily in the assigned program...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 794
  When a minor is permitted to participate in a deferred entry of judgment procedure, the judge shall impose, as a condition of probation, the requirement...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 795
  The county probation officer or a person designated by the county probation officer shall serve in each county as the program administrator for juveniles granted...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 800
  (a) A judgment in a proceeding under Section 601 or 602 may be appealed from, by the minor, in the same manner as any final...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 825
  The order and findings of the superior court in each case under the provisions of this chapter shall be entered in a suitable book or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 826
  (a) After five years from the date on which the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a minor is terminated, the probation officer may destroy...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 826.5
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 826, at any time before a person reaches the age when his or her records are required to be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 826.6
  (a) Any minor who is the subject of a petition that has been filed in juvenile court to adjudge the minor a dependent child or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 826.7
  Juvenile case files that pertain to a child who died as the result of abuse or neglect shall be released by the custodian of records...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 827
  (a) (1) Except as provided in Section 828, a case file may be inspected only by the following: (A) Court personnel. (B) The district attorney,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 827.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city, county, or city and county may establish a computerized data base system within that city, county,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 827.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 827 or any other provision of law, written notice that a minor has been found by a court of competent jurisdiction to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 827.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law except Sections 389 and 781 of this code and Section 1203.45 of the Penal Code, a law enforcement agency...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 827.6
  A law enforcement agency may release the name, description, and the alleged offense of any minor alleged to have committed a violent offense, as defined...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 827.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 827 or any other provision of law, written notice that a minor has been found by a court of competent jurisdiction to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 827.9
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to reaffirm its belief that records or information gathered by law enforcement agencies relating to the taking...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 828
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 389, 781, and 827.9 of this code or Section 1203.45 of the Penal Code, any information gathered by a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 828.1
  (a) While the Legislature reaffirms its belief that juvenile criminal records, in general, should be confidential, it is the intent of the Legislature in enacting...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 828.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, information relating to the taking of a minor into custody on the basis that he or she has committed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 829
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Board of Prison Terms, in order to evaluate the suitability for release of a person before the board,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 830
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, members of a multidisciplinary personnel team engaged in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse may disclose and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 830.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, members of a juvenile justice multidisciplinary team engaged in the prevention, identification, and control of crime, including, but not...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 840
  There shall be in each county probation department a program of home supervision to which minors described by Section 628.1 shall be referred. Home supervision...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 841
  The duties of a deputy probation officer, or a probation aide, a community worker or a volunteer under the supervision of a deputy probation officer,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 842
  A probation volunteer is a person who donates personal services to the probation department and probationers without compensation. A probation aide or a community worker...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 850
  The board of supervisors in every county shall provide and maintain, at the expense of the county, in a location approved by the judge of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 851
  Except as provided in Section 207.1, the juvenile hall shall not be in, or connected with, any jail or prison, and shall not be deemed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 852
  The juvenile hall shall be under the management and control of the probation officer.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 853
  The board of supervisors shall provide for a suitable superintendent to have charge of the juvenile hall, and for such other employees as may be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 854
  The superintendent and other employees of the juvenile hall shall be appointed by the probation officer, pursuant to a civil service or merit system, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 855
  The probation officer shall keep a classified list of expenses for the operation of the juvenile hall and shall file a duplicate copy with the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 856
  The board of supervisors may provide for the establishment of a public elementary school and of a public secondary school in connection with any juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 857
  Whenever a minor is incarcerated in a juvenile hall or other county juvenile facility for a period of at least 30 consecutive days, the facility...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 862
  In addition to those juveniles specified in Section 850, the probation officer may receive and detain in the county juvenile hall any juvenile committed thereto...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 870
  Two or more counties may, pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 871
  (a) Any person under the custody of a probation officer or any peace officer in a county juvenile hall, or committed to a county juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 871.5
  (a) Except as authorized by law, or when authorized by the person in charge of any county juvenile hall, ranch, camp, or forestry camp, or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 872
  Where there is no juvenile hall in the county of residence of minors, or when the juvenile hall becomes unfit or unsafe for detention of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 873
  (a) Upon approval of the board of supervisors of a county, the chief probation officer of the county may establish, maintain, and operate a store...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 880
  In order to provide appropriate facilities for the housing of wards of the juvenile court in the counties of their residence or in adjacent counties...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 881
  The board of supervisors of any county may, by ordinance, establish juvenile ranches, camps, or forestry camps, within or without the county, to which persons...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 881.5
  (a) (1) If a county receives funds pursuant to Section 17602, the county reduces the capacity of its juvenile ranches, camps, or forestry camps below...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 882
  Juvenile ranches, camps or forestry camps shall be in the charge of a superintendent or director and may be established in conjunction with the probation...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 883
  The wards committed to ranches, camps, or forestry camps may be required to labor on the buildings and grounds thereof, on the making of forest...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 884
  The board of supervisors may provide for the payment of wages and pay such wages from the treasury of such county to the wards for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 885
  (a) The Board of Corrections shall adopt and prescribe the minimum standards of construction, operation, programs of education and training, and qualifications of personnel for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 886
  Except as provided in Section 886.5, no juvenile home, ranch, camp, or forestry camp established pursuant to the provisions of this article shall receive or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 886.5
  (a) A juvenile home, ranch, camp, or forestry camp may receive or contain a maximum of 125 children at any one time if the county...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 888
  Any county establishing a juvenile ranch or camp under the provisions of this article may, by mutual agreement, accept children committed to that ranch or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 889
  The board of education shall provide for the administration and operation of public schools in any juvenile hall, day center, ranch, camp, regional youth educational...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 891
  (a) From any state moneys made available to it for that purpose, the Youth Authority shall share in the cost pursuant to this article of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 892
  (a) From any state moneys made available to it for that purpose, the Youth Authority shall provide state assistance pursuant to this section to defray,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 893
  (a) The board of supervisors of any county with a population of five million or more may provide and maintain a school or schools at...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 894
  In order to provide a sentencing alternative for the juvenile courts, one or more pilot regional youth educational facilities shall be established as short-term intensive...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 895
  (a) From any state moneys made available to it for that purpose, the Youth Authority shall assist counties in the establishment of pilot regional youth...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 896
  (a) The Board of Corrections shall establish minimum performance standards for programs of education and training and for qualifications of personnel for all youth educational...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 897
  The capacity of each regional youth educational facility shall be established pursuant to Sections 886 and 886.5.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 898
  The participating counties shall appoint a citizens advisory committee with a membership drawn from law enforcement, judiciary, probation, education, corrections, business, and the general public,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 900
  (a) If it is necessary that provision be made for the expense of support and maintenance of a ward or dependent child of the juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 901
  No order for payment shall be made in a sum in excess of the actual cost of supporting and maintaining the ward, dependent child or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 902
  If it is found that the maximum amount established by the board of supervisors of the county is insufficient to pay the whole expense of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903
  (a) The father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor, the estate of that person, and the estate of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.1
  (a) The father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor, the estate of that person, and the estate of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.15
  (a) The parent of any minor, or other person who is liable for the support of the minor, on whose behalf a petition is filed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.2
  (a) The juvenile court may require that the father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor, the estate of that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.25
  (a) In addition to the liability established by any other provision of law, a parent or guardian of a minor who has been delivered to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.3
  (a) The father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor person, the person himself or herself if he or she...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.4
  (a) The Legislature finds that even though Section 903 establishes parental liability for the cost of the care, support, and maintenance of a child in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.41
  (a) It is the intention of the Legislature that the family law departments and juvenile departments of each superior court coordinate determinations of parentage and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.45
  (a) The board of supervisors may designate a county financial evaluation officer pursuant to Section 27750 of the Government Code to make financial evaluations of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.5
  In addition to the requirements of Section 903.4, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parent or other person legally liable for the support...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.6
  Funds collected pursuant to Sections 903, 903.4, and 903.5 shall be distributed in the following manner: (a) If the program through which the minor is...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.7
  (a) There is in the State Treasury the Foster Children and Parent Training Fund. The moneys contained in the fund shall be used exclusively for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 903.8
  (a) Beginning January 1, 1994, the State Department of Social Services shall develop and implement an enhanced statewide basic foster parent training program. It is...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 904
  The monthly or daily charge, not to exceed cost, for care, support, and maintenance of minor persons placed or detained in or committed to any...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 911
  No order for payment from the county treasury of the expense of support and maintenance of a ward or dependent child of the juvenile court...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 912
  Effective July 1, 2003, for each person committed to the Department of the Youth Authority, the county from which he or she is committed shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 912.1
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall present to each county, not more frequently than monthly, a statement of per capita institutional cost. (b)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 912.5
  (a) For each person committed to the Department of the Youth Authority by a juvenile court on or after January 1, 1997, the county from...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 913
  When any person has been adjudged to be a ward or dependent child of the juvenile court, and the court has made an order committing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 914
  As used in this article, "expense for support and maintenance" includes the reasonable value of any medical services furnished to the ward or dependent child...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 925
  The provisions of this article shall be operative in any county in which the board of supervisors by ordinance finds, on the basis of employment...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 926
  When a minor is adjudged a ward of the juvenile court and committed to a county juvenile home, ranch, camp, or forestry camp, the juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 927
  (a) If the juvenile work furlough administrator so directs that the minor be permitted to continue in his or her regular employment, the administrator shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 928
  Whenever the minor is not employed and between the hours or periods of employment, he shall be confined in a juvenile detention facility unless the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 929
  The earnings of the minor shall be collected by the juvenile work furlough administrator, and it shall be the duty of the minor's employer to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 930
  In the event the minor violates the conditions laid down for his conduct, custody, or employment, the juvenile work furlough administrator may order termination of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 940
  The board of supervisors in every county may provide and maintain, at the expense of the county, in a location approved by the judge of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 941
  The 24-hour school or a nonresidential boot camp school program shall be under the management and control of the probation officer.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 942
  The board of supervisors shall provide for a suitable superintendent to have charge of the 24-hour school, and for such other employees as may be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 943
  The superintendent and other employees of the 24-hour school shall be appointed by the probation officer, pursuant to a civil service or merit system, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 944
  The probation officer shall keep a classified list of expenses for the operation of the 24-hour school and shall file a duplicate copy with the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 945
  A 24-hour school shall be considered a children's institution for licensing purposes and shall be licensed by the department of social welfare of the county...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 960
  This article shall be construed in conformity with the intent as well as the expressed provisions thereof, and the governing board of any adjustment school...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 961
  The terms and provisions of Article 25 (commencing with Section 900) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 2 and Section 579 shall, so...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 962
  The boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of counties and cities and counties may organize, establish, equip, and maintain, including the purchase of suitable...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 963
  The boards of supervisors of two or more counties may by regularly adopted resolutions or ordinances duly entered on the minutes or proceedings of their...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 964
  If adjustment schools are organized by only one county or city and county, the government and management shall be vested in a governing board which...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 965
  If the adjustment schools are organized by the joint action of two or more counties, the boards of supervisors of the counties may by concerted...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 966
  If a board of trustees is chosen to govern and manage the adjustment school the term of office of the trustees shall be six years,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 967
  The governing board shall make all needful rules and regulations for the transaction of business and for the management and government of the adjustment school...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 968
  The governing board shall make all contracts for the organization, establishment, including the purchase of a suitable site and the construction of suitable buildings, equipment,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 969
  No member of the governing board, nor officer, nor employee of any adjustment school shall be interested, personally, directly, or indirectly, in any contract, purchase,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 970
  The governing board of the adjustment school shall appoint a superintendent, not of its own number, who shall be a person qualified by training and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 971
  The governing board shall determine the number, title, duties, and terms of office of all other officers and employees and shall fix their salaries, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 972
  The superintendent of the adjustment school shall, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, make and file with the governing board an...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 973
  The superintendent, after making and filing the bond, shall, subject to the direction of the governing board, be invested with the custody of the lands,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 974
  The superintendent shall also, subject to the direction of the governing board, appoint all officers and employees of the adjustment school, who shall hold office...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 975
  The superintendent shall reside in the adjustment school or one of the adjustment schools under his or her jurisdiction and shall be furnished suitable quarters,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 976
  The adjustment school shall receive into its care, custody, and control all boys and girls under 18 years of age who are committed to it...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 977
  Any minor who has been committed to the care, custody, and control of any adjustment school shall remain in the school for the duration of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 978
  The juvenile court shall review the order of commitment at least once each year, and upon review the court may continue, terminate, or modify the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 979
  If at any time in the opinion of the superintendent of the adjustment school the further detention of the minor is detrimental to the interests...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 980
  The governing board of any adjustment school shall cause the school to be conducted as may seem best calculated to carry out the intentions of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 981
  There shall be organized a course of study, corresponding as far as practicable with the course of study in the public schools of the state.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 982
  There shall be provided in the adjustment school the proper facilities and equipment for vocational and trade training, in addition to other public school education...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 983
  Any order of the juvenile court committing a minor to the care, custody, and control of an adjustment school may provide the expense of his...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 984
  If the adjustment school is organized, established, equipped, and maintained by only one county or city and county, the entire expense of the school shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 985
  If an adjustment school is organized, established, equipped, and maintained by two or more counties, the initial expense of organizing, establishing, and equipping the school...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 986
  The annual expense of maintaining the school by two or more counties, shall be apportioned between the counties on a pro rata basis in the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 987
  The governing board shall require any officer entrusted with money belonging to an adjustment school or to any of the minors entrusted to its care,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 990
  As used in this article: (a) "Acquiring" means obtaining ownership of an existing facility in fee simple for use as a youth center. (b) "Altering"...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 991
  Moneys in the fund, up to twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000), upon appropriation to the department, shall be available for allocation by the department in accordance...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 992
  (a) The department shall, upon appropriation pursuant to Section 993.3, make grants to nonprofit organizations for the purpose of acquiring, renovating, or constructing youth centers....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 993
  (a) No grant made pursuant to this chapter shall exceed three million dollars ($3,000,000) and each grant shall reflect the reasonable costs for acquisition and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1000
  Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Department of the Youth Authority refers to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1000.1
  In order to provide counties with alternative placement options, the Department of the Youth Authority is authorized to establish, maintain, or facilitate the development of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1000.5
  Where in any law of this State the name "Whittier State School" appears it shall hereafter be understood to mean and shall be construed to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1000.7
  As used in this chapter, "Youth Authority," "authority," and "the authority" mean and refer to the Department of the Youth Authority, and "board" means and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1001
  The general government and supervision of each such institution is vested in the Youth Authority.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1001.5
  (a) Except when authorized by law, or when authorized by the person in charge of an institution or camp administered by the Youth Authority, or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1001.7
  Every person who, having been previously convicted of a felony and confined in any state prison in this state, without the consent of the officer...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1002
  The Youth Authority may do all lawful acts which it deems necessary to effectuate the purposes for which such schools are established, and to promote...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1003
  The authority shall have charge of the land, buildings, apparatus, tools, stock, provisions and other property belonging to each such institution.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1004
  The authority shall have charge of the persons committed to or confined in each such institution, and shall provide for their care, supervision, education, training,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1006
  The land purchased for the site of Preston School of Industry shall be used exclusively for the occupancy and purposes of the school.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1008
  The Youth Authority shall cooperate with the United States Bureau of Immigration in arranging for the deportation of all aliens who are committed to it.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1009
  The Department of the Youth Authority may order the return of nonresident persons committed to the department or confined in institutions or facilities subject to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1009.1
  When, pursuant to Section 1009, money is received by the Department of the Youth Authority from private sources to defray the cost of transportation for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1009.2
  The fiscal officer of the Department of the Youth Authority shall make payment of any refund pursuant to Section 1009.1 if the Director of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1009.3
  If any money which is to be refunded has been deposited in the State Treasury, the State Controller, upon receipt of a claim which is...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1009.4
  If the Director of the Youth Authority finds that the amount of any refund is less than three dollars ($3), he may retain such amount,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1010
  In determining residence for purposes of transportation, a person who has lived continuously in this State for a period of one year and who has...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1011
  All expenses incurred in returning these persons to other states shall be paid by this state, but the expense of returning residents of this state...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1015
  Whenever any person confined in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority dies, and any personal funds or property of such...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1016
  (a) Whenever a person confined in a state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, escapes,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1017
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1018
  At the time of delivering any money or other personal property to the State Treasurer or State Controller under the provisions of Section 1015 or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1019
  When any personal property has been destroyed as provided in Section 1015 or 1016, no suit shall thereafter be maintained by any person against the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1020
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of Sections 1015 and 1016 shall apply (1) to all money and other personal property delivered to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1049
  Subject to the provisions of law relating to the State civil service, the Youth Authority may appoint, define the duties, and fix the salary of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1050
  The superintendent of the institutions under this chapter shall be persons of high moral character, specially qualified for the position.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1075
  The Youth Authority shall, in accordance with law, appoint all officers and employees required at the institutions under this chapter, and shall fix their remuneration.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1076
  The superintendent, assistant superintendent, supervisor, or any employee having custody of wards, of each institution of the Department of the Youth Authority, and any transportation...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1077
  (a) Any psychologist employed by or who contracts with the Department of the Youth Authority to provide services to wards under the jurisdiction of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1078
  To the extent that funding is available, the department, in consultation with the State Department of Mental Health, shall develop training in the treatment of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1120
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to insure an appropriate educational program for wards committed to the Department of the Youth Authority. The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1120.1
  (a) In furtherance of the purpose of the Department of the Youth Authority to protect society from the consequences of criminal activity, the department's educational...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1120.2
  (a) There is in the Department of the Youth Authority a correctional education authority for the purpose of carrying out the education and training of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1120.5
  At each institution under this chapter the Youth Authority shall organize and maintain a division of instruction and such other divisions as it deems necessary...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1121
  The chief of each such division of instruction shall be well trained in modern school administration.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1122
  Such divisions of instruction shall have jurisdiction over all courses of instruction. Such courses shall include academic and vocational training, and shall be subject to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1123
  Subject to the availability of adequate state funding for these purposes, the Director of the Youth Authority shall provide all wards at each penal institution...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1124
  Each institution under this chapter may manufacture, repair, and assemble products or may raise produce, for use in the institution or in any other State...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1125
  Each inmate of an institution under this chapter shall be permitted to keep for his own use all articles of handiwork and other finished products...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1125.5
  When any public road is a principal means of access to the Preston School of Industry the Department of the Youth Authority, with the consent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1152
  (a) Any person who without the use of force or violence willfully assists any parolee of the Department of the Youth Authority whose parole has...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1154
  Whenever any person who has escaped from any institution or facility under the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority is returned by a sheriff or probation...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1155
  The person in charge of any secure detention facility, including, but not limited to, a prison, a juvenile hall, a county jail, or any institution...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1176
  When, in the opinion of the Youth Authority Board, any person committed to or confined in any such school deserves parole according to regulations established...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1177
  When any person so paroled has proved his or her ability for honorable self-support, the Youth Authority Board shall give him or her honorable discharge....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1178
  The Youth Authority Board may grant honorable discharge to any person committed to or confined in any such school. The reason for that discharge shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1179
  (a) All persons honorably discharged from control of the Youth Authority Board shall thereafter be released from all penalties or disabilities resulting from the offenses...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1180
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall provide, within 10 days, upon request to the chief of police of a city or the sheriff of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1200
  The Controller of the State shall, on requisition of any of the institutions under this chapter, duly audited by him, draw his warrant on the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1201
  For each person committed to any state school the county from which he was committed shall make payments to the state as provided in Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1250
  There is hereby established an institution for the confinement of males under the custody of the Director of Corrections and the Youth Authority to be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1251
  The Heman G. Stark Youth Training School shall be an intermediate security type institution. Its primary purpose shall be to provide custody, care, industrial, vocational...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1252
  There may be transferred to and confined in the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School any male subject to the custody, control and discipline of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1253
  The Youth Authority shall make rules and regulations for the government of the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School and the management of its affairs.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1254
  The Youth Authority shall appoint, subject to civil service, a superintendent for the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School, and such officers and employees as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1255
  The Youth Authority shall construct and equip, in accordance with law, suitable buildings, structures, and facilities for the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1256
  The Youth Authority shall have the same powers, duties, and responsibilities in respect to the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School and the persons confined...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1258
  The Director of the Youth Authority, in connection with industrial training at the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School, Chino, California, may provide suitable materials...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1300
  In addition to any other authority conferred upon him, the Governor is authorized and may execute for, on behalf of, and in the name of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1300.3
  The Out-of-state Confinement Amendment to the Interstate Compact on Juveniles is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with all other states...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1300.4
  The Rendition Amendment to the Interstate Compact on Juveniles is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with all other states legally...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1300.5
  In addition to any institution in which the authorities of this state may otherwise confine or order the confinement of a delinquent juvenile, such authorities...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1301
  Pursuant to the compact, the Governor may designate an officer who shall be the compact administrator and who, acting jointly with like officers of other...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1302
  The compact administrator shall cooperate with all departments, agencies and officers of this State and its subdivisions in facilitating the proper administration of the compact...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1303
  The compact administrator may enter into supplementary agreements with appropriate officials of other states pursuant to the compact. In the event that such supplementary agreement...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1304
  The compact administrator, subject to the approval of the Department of Finance, may make or arrange for any payments necessary to discharge any financial obligations...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1305
  Any judge who appoints counsel or a guardian ad litem pursuant to the provisions of the compact may fix a fee in a reasonable amount,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1306
  The courts, departments, agencies, and officers of this State and its subdivisions shall enforce this compact and shall do all things appropriate to the effectuation...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1307
  The term "delinquent juvenile" as used in the Interstate Compact on Juveniles shall include those persons subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court within...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1308
  All provisions of law in conflict with this chapter shall be inoperative so long as the compact or agreement executed under the provisions of this...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1500
  A peace officer of any city or county shall prevent the entry from California into the Republic of Mexico at the border by any resident...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1700
  The purpose of this chapter is to protect society from the consequences of criminal activity and to that purpose community restoration, victim restoration, and offender...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1701
  This chapter may be cited as the Youth Authority Act.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1702
  This chapter shall apply only to public offenses committed subsequently to the date upon which it becomes effective.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1703
  Commencing July 1, 2005, as used in this chapter the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Public offenses" means public offenses as that term...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1704
  Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to interfere with or limit the jurisdiction of the juvenile court.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1705
  It is the intention of the Legislature that all persons in the custody of an institution under the supervision of the Department of the Youth...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1710
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Department of the Youth Authority in this or any other code refers to the Department of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1711
  Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Director of the Youth Authority shall be to the Chief Deputy Secretary for Juvenile Justice in the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1712
  (a) All powers, duties, and functions pertaining to the care and treatment of wards provided by any provision of law and not specifically and expressly...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1712.1
  (a) A ward confined in a facility of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, shall be encouraged to communicate with family...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1712.5
  (a) The possession or use of tobacco products by wards and inmates in all institutions and camps under the jurisdiction of the Department of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1713
  (a) The Chief Deputy Secretary for Juvenile Justice in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall have wide and successful administrative experience in youth or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1714
  The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may transfer persons confined in one institution or facility of the Division of Juvenile Facilities to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1715
  From funds available for the support of the Youth Authority, the director may reimburse persons employed by the authority and certified as radiologic technologists pursuant...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1716
  Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Youth Authority Board refers to the Board of Parole Hearings. As of that date, the Youth Authority...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1719
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, the following powers and duties shall be exercised and performed by the Board of Parole Hearings: discharges of commitment, orders...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1720
  (a) The case of each ward shall be reviewed by the department within 45 days of arrival at the department, and at other times as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1723
  (a) Every order granting or revoking parole or issuing final discharges to any person under the jurisdiction of the division shall be made by the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1725
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, the Board of Parole Hearings shall succeed, and shall exercise and perform all powers and duties previously granted to, exercised...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1726
  (a) Employees of the Department of the Youth Authority who are needed to support the functions of the Youth Authority Board shall be selected and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1730
  (a) No person may be committed to the Authority until the Authority has certified in writing to the Governor that it has approved or established...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1731
  (a) When in any criminal proceeding in a court of this State a person has been convicted of a public offense and the person was...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1731.5
  (a) After certification to the Governor as provided in this article, a court may commit to the Division of Juvenile Facilities any person who meets...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1731.6
  (a) In any county in which there is in effect a contract made pursuant to Section 1752.1, if a court has determined that a person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1731.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 60 days of the commitment of a ward to the Department of the Youth Authority, the department shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1732
  No person convicted of violating Section 261, 262, or 264.1, subdivision (b) of Section 288, Section 289, or of sodomy or oral copulation by force,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1732.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person convicted of murder, rape or any other serious felony, as defined in Section 1192.7 of the Penal...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1732.6
  (a) No minor shall be committed to the Youth Authority when he or she is convicted in a criminal action for an offense described in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1732.7
  A person who is convicted of a public offense for which the maximum penalty provided by law is imprisonment for not more than 90 days,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1732.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law and subject to the provisions of this section, the Director of the Youth Authority may transfer to and cause to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1733
  Nothing in this chapter prevents a court from revoking or suspending any license issued to the defendant under any law of this State where such...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1735
  If the court sentences a person under 21 years of age at the time of his apprehension to the payment of a fine and the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1736
  The juvenile court may in its discretion commit persons subject to its jurisdiction to the authority, and the authority may in its discretion accept such
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1737
  When a person has been committed to the custody of the authority, if it is deemed warranted by a diagnostic study and recommendation approved by...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1737.1
  Whenever any person who has been convicted of a public offense in adult court and committed to and accepted by the Department of the Youth...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1737.5
  A commitment to the Authority is a judgment within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Title 8 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1738
  When the court commits a person to the authority the court may order him conveyed to some place of detention approved or established by the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1739
  (a) The right of a person who has been convicted of a public offense to a new trial or to an appeal from the judgment...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1740
  When a court commits a person to the Authority such court shall at once forward to the Authority a certified copy of the order of
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1741
  The judge before whom the person was tried and committed, the district attorney or other official who conducted the prosecution, and the probation officer of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1742
  When the juvenile court commits to the Youth Authority a person identified as an individual with exceptional needs, as defined by Section 56026 of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1750
  The Authority is limited in its expenditures to funds specifically made available for its use.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752
  To the extent that necessary funds are available for the purposes, the director may (a) Establish and operate a treatment and training service and such...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752
  To the extent that necessary funds are available for the purposes the director may: (a) Establish and operate a treatment and training service and such...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.05
  (a) The director shall provide for the development and implementation of a disciplinary matrix with offenses and associated punishments applicable to all department employees, in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.1
  The director may enter into contracts with the approval of the Director of Finance with any county of this state, upon request of the board...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.15
  The director may enter into contracts, with the approval of the Director of Finance, with any county of this state upon request of the board...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.3
  The director may, from any moneys made available for such purposes, allocate funds to local governmental and nongovernmental agencies to share in the cost of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.5
  The director may establish and maintain at any institution or camp under his jurisdiction a canteen for the sale to persons confined therein of candy,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.6
  The director may, with the approval of the Director of General Services, enter into contracts with colleges, universities, and other organizations for the purposes of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.7
  The director may collect statistics and information regarding juvenile delinquency, crimes reported and discovered, arrests made, complaints, informations, and indictments filed and the disposition made...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.8
  The Director of the Youth Authority may deposit any funds of wards committed to the authority in the director's possession in trust with the Treasurer...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.81
  (a) Whenever the Chief Deputy Secretary for Juvenile Justice has in his or her possession in trust funds of a ward committed to the division,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.82
  (a) Whenever an adult or minor is committed to or housed in a Youth Authority facility and he or she owes restitution to a victim...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.83
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that wards of the Youth Authority be held accountable for intentional damage and destruction of public property...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.85
  The Director of the Youth Authority may authorize the sale of articles of handiwork made by wards under the jurisdiction of the authority to the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.9
  The Department of the Youth Authority, with the approval of the Director of General Services, may lease land at any institution under its jurisdiction, at...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1752.95
  The director may, from time to time, and as often as occasion may require, but not to exceed two meetings in any one calendar year...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1753
  For the purpose of carrying out its duties, the department is authorized to make use of law enforcement, detention, probation, parole, medical, educational, correctional, segregative...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1753.1
  (a) The Director of the Youth Authority may enter into agreements with any federal agency authorizing the use of the Youth Authority's facilities and services...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1753.3
  (a) The Director of the Youth Authority may enter into an agreement with a city, county, or city and county, to permit transfer of wards...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1753.4
  (a) Pursuant to Section 1753.3 the Director of the Youth Authority may enter into a long-term agreement not to exceed 20 years with a city,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1753.6
  In any case in which a ward of the Youth Authority is temporarily released from actual confinement in an institution of the authority and placed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1753.7
  (a) Any female confined in a Department of the Youth Authority facility shall, upon her request, be allowed to continue to use materials necessary for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1754
  Nothing in this chapter shall be taken to give the Youth Authority Board or the director control over existing facilities, institutions or agencies; or to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1755
  Public institutions and agencies are hereby required to accept and care for persons sent to them by the authority in the same manner as they...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1755.3
  Whenever any person under the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority, or any minor under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, is in need of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1755.4
  The Department of the Youth Authority, in consultation with the State Department of Mental Health shall establish, by regulations adopted at the earliest possible date,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1755.5
  The Department of the Youth Authority may transfer to and cause to be confined in the medical facility, the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad, the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1756
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if, in the opinion of the Director of the Youth Authority, the rehabilitation of any mentally disordered, or developmentally...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1757
  The director may inspect all public institutions and agencies whose facilities he or she is authorized to utilize and all private institutions and agencies whose...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1758
  Placement of a person by the authority in any institution or agency not operated by the authority, or the discharge of such person by such...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1759
  No person placed in such an institution or under such an agency may be released by the institution or agency until after approval of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1760
  The director is hereby authorized when necessary and when funds are available for these purposes to establish and operate any of the following: (a) Places...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1760.4
  (a) The wards housed in forestry camps established by the Department of the Youth Authority may be required to labor on the buildings and grounds...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1760.5
  The director may require persons committed to the authority to perform work necessary and proper to be done by the Department of Forestry and Fire...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1760.6
  The department may provide for the payment of wages to wards for work performed pursuant to Section 2816 of the Penal Code, the sums earned...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1760.7
  The director shall investigate, examine, and make reports upon adult and juvenile probation. The director may establish standards for the performance of probation duties, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1760.8
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall annually develop a population management and facilities master plan presenting projected population and strategies for treatment and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1761
  The Youth Authority shall establish policies for a background assessment of all persons committed to the Youth Authority in order to supplement the case history...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1763
  The authority shall keep written records of all examinations and of the conclusions predicated thereon and of all orders concerning the disposition or treatment of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1764
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any of the following information in the possession of the Youth Authority regarding persons 16 years of age or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1764.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director or his or her designee may release the information described in Section 1764 regarding a person committed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1764.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the chief deputy secretary or the chief deputy secretary's designee shall release the information described in Section 1764...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1764.3
  (a) Whenever a person is committed to the Youth Authority by a court of criminal jurisdiction, or is committed to the Department of Corrections and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1764.5
  Whenever a minor is incarcerated in a Youth Authority facility for a period of at least 30 consecutive days, the Youth Authority shall inform the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1765
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the Department of the Youth Authority and the Youth Authority Board shall keep under continued study a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1766
  (a) Subject to Sections 733 and 1767.35, and subdivision (b) of this section, if a person has been committed to the Department of Corrections and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1766.1
  When permitting an adult or minor committed to the Department of the Youth Authority his or her liberty pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1766,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1766.5
  The director shall establish and maintain a fair, simple, and expeditious system for resolution of grievances of all persons committed to the Youth Authority regarding...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1767
  (a) Upon request, written notice of any hearing to consider the release on parole of any person under the control of the Youth Authority for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1767.1
  At least 30 days before the Youth Authority Board meets to review or consider the parole of any person who has been committed to the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1767.2
  Every order granting probation or parole to any person under the control of the authority who has been convicted of any of the offenses enumerated...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1767.3
  (a) The Juvenile Parole Board may suspend, cancel, or revoke any parole and may order returned to custody, as specified in Section 1767.35, any person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1767.35
  Commencing on September 1, 2007, any parolee under the jurisdiction of the Division of Juvenile Parole Operations shall be returned to custody upon the suspension,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1767.4
  Whenever any person paroled by the Youth Authority Board is returned to the department upon the order of the director by a peace officer or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1767.5
  The authority may pay any private home for the care of any person committed to the authority and paroled by the Youth Authority Board to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1767.6
  In parole revocation proceedings, a parolee or his attorney shall receive a copy of any police, arrest, and crime reports pertaining to such proceedings. Portions...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1767.7
  A sum may be withdrawn by the authority from the funds available for the support of the authority without at the time furnishing vouchers and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1767.9
  Any person authorized to appear at a parole hearing pursuant to Section 1767 shall have the right to speak last before the board in regard...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1768
  As a means of correcting the socially harmful tendencies of a person committed to the authority, the director may (a) Require participation by him in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1768.1
  No contract shall be executed with an employer that will initiate employment by persons committed to the authority in the same job classification as other...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1768.7
  (a) Any person committed to the authority who escapes or attempts to escape from the institution or facility in which he or she is confined,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1768.8
  (a) An assault or battery by any person confined in an institution under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Youth Authority upon the person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1768.85
  (a) Every person confined under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Youth Authority who commits a battery by gassing upon the person of any...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1768.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person under the jurisdiction or control of the Department of the Youth Authority is obligated to submit...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1768.10
  Notwithstanding any other law, the Youth Authority Board may require a person under its jurisdiction or control to submit to an examination or test for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1769
  (a) Every person committed to the Department of the Youth Authority by a juvenile court shall, except as provided in subdivision (b), be discharged upon...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1770
  Every person convicted of a misdemeanor and committed to the authority shall be discharged upon the expiration of a two-year period of control or when...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1771
  Every person convicted of a felony and committed to the authority shall be discharged when such person reaches his 25th birthday, unless an order for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1772
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), every person honorably discharged from control by the Youth Authority Board who has not, during the period of control by...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1773
  (a) No condition or restriction upon the obtaining of an abortion by a female committed to the Division of Juvenile Facilities, pursuant to the Therapeutic...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1774
  (a) Any female who has been committed to the authority shall have the right to summon and receive the services of any physician and surgeon...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1776
  Whenever an alleged parole violator is detained in a county detention facility pursuant to a valid exercise of the powers of the Department of Corrections...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1777
  Any moneys received pursuant to the Federal Social Security Act by a ward who is incarcerated by the Youth Authority are liable for the reasonable...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1778
  Notwithstanding Section 11425.10 of the Government Code, Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1780
  If the date of discharge occurs before the expiration of a period of control equal to the maximum term prescribed by law for the offense...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1781
  Upon the filing of a petition under this article, the court shall notify the person whose liberty is involved, and if he or she is...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1782
  Such committing court may thereupon discharge the person, admit him or her to probation or may commit him or her to the state prison. The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1783
  An appeal may be taken from the order of the court committing a person to the State prison under this chapter in the same manner...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1784
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) That the mobilization of community resources to assist in providing youthful offenders with necessary educational,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1784.1
  (a) The Director of the Youth Authority shall, upon request, provide technical assistance to judges, probation officers, law enforcement officials, school administrators, welfare administrators, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1784.2
  (a) The Director of the Youth Authority shall provide grants from funds made available for this purpose, for the development, implementation, and support of juvenile...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1784.3
  The Director of the Youth Authority shall appoint an eight-member advisory committee on community resource referral programs to advise him or her on matters relating...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1784.4
  The director may accept funds and grants from any source, public or private, to assist in accomplishing the purposes of this article.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1785
  The state advisory group established pursuant to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.) shall perform the duties...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1786
  The advisory group shall do all of the following: (a) Identify existing programs dealing with runaway and homeless youth. (b) Develop a directory of service...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1787
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) A tremendous percentage of juveniles who commit status offenses including, but not limited to, running...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1788
  Each Runaway Youth and Families in Crisis Project established under this article shall provide services which shall include, but not be limited to, all of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1789
  (a) A Runaway Youth and Families in Crisis Project shall be established in one or more counties in the San Joaquin Central Valley, in one...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1789.5
  The Office of Criminal Justice Planning shall monitor and evaluate the projects established under this article, and shall report to the Legislature after the first...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1790
  The purpose of this article is to reduce crime and delinquency by assisting the development, establishment and operation of comprehensive public and private community based...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1791
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall exercise leadership on behalf of the state in order to accomplish the purpose of this article. All state...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1792
  The Director of the Youth Authority may provide funds for financial support, in amounts determined by him, from funds available for such purposes, to public...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1792.1
  The director shall make annual allocations from funds made available to him for such purposes for administrative expenses to county delinquency prevention commissions established pursuant...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1792.2
  The director may make additional matching allocations from funds available to him for such purposes, in amounts determined by him, to county delinquency prevention commissions...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1793
  The Director of the Youth Authority shall develop standards for the operation of programs funded under Sections 1792, 1792.1 and 1792.2. He shall seek advice...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1794
  Application for funds under Sections 1792, 1792.1, and 1792.2 shall be made to the Director of the Youth Authority in the manner and form prescribed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1795
  To help communities develop effective local programs, the Director of the Youth Authority may, upon request, provide technical assistance to judges, probation officers, law enforcement...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1796
  The Director of the Youth Authority may from funds available to him for such purposes provide funds for demonstration or experimental projects designed to test...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1797
  The director may assist in the establishment of public committees having as their object the prevention or decrease of crime and delinquency among youth, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1798
  As of July 1, 2005, the State Commission on Juvenile Justice, Crime and Delinquency Prevention is abolished.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1799
  The director may, with the approval of the Director of General Services, enter into contracts with the federal government, other state governments, counties, cities, private...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1800
  (a) Whenever the Division of Juvenile Facilities determines that the discharge of a person from the control of the division at the time required by...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1800.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Board of Parole Hearings may request the Chief Deputy Secretary for Juvenile Justice to review any case in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1801
  (a) If a petition is filed with the court for an order as provided in Section 1800 and, upon review, the court determines that the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1801.5
  If a trial is ordered pursuant to Section 1801, the trial shall be by jury unless the right to a jury trial is personally waived...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1801.6
  When the venue of a proceeding under this chapter is changed, costs of the proceeding are chargeable as provided in Section 1037 of the Penal
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1802
  When an order for continued detention is made as provided in Section 1801, the control of the authority over the person shall continue, subject to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1803
  An order of the committing court made pursuant to this article is appealable by the person whose liberty is involved in the same manner as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1805
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to protect society from crime and delinquency by helping counties maintain and improve local...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1806
  (a) From any state moneys made available to it for the program, commencing with fiscal year 1983-84, the Department of the Youth Authority shall provide...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Juvenile Offender Local Prevention and Corrections Act.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820.05
  For purposes of this article, "partnership funds" means the state's share of funding for county juvenile ranches, camps, and forestry camps.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820.1
  Partnership funds shall be used only for the purpose of confinement, discipline, and treatment of juvenile offenders in county juvenile ranches, camps, or forestry camps.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820.15
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall establish and implement the Juvenile Offender Local Prevention and Corrections Program. (b) The purpose of the program...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820.2
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall, in the implementation of this article, do all of the following: (a) Determine county eligibility for partnership funding....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820.25
  A county may apply to receive partnership funds under this article by submitting an application to the department in a manner and at a time...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820.3
  A county shall be eligible for the receipt of partnership funds under this article only if the county meets all of the following conditions: (a)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820.4
  It is the intent of the Legislature that counties that do not operate juvenile camps or ranches, but instead contract for beds with counties that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820.45
  (a) (1) The Department of the Youth Authority shall work with counties to develop boot camp programs, either separately or as part of existing ranches,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820.47
  In order to develop, establish, and operate residential and nonresidential boot camp and similar programs for young, first-time offenders and nonserious and nonviolent offenders, a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, commencing with the 1994-95 fiscal year, this article shall be funded by the federal government, the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1820.55
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall adopt emergency regulations for implementation of this article.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1830
  The Director of the Youth Authority may participate in a local work furlough program established pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1208 of the Penal...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1831
  When a person is committed to a facility under the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority, the Youth Authority work furlough administrator may, if he concludes...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1832
  If the Youth Authority work furlough administrator so directs that the ward be permitted to continue in his regular employment, the administrator shall arrange for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1833
  Whenever the ward is not employed and between the hours or periods of employment, he shall be confined in a detention facility unless the court...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1834
  The earnings of the ward shall be collected by the Youth Authority work furlough administrator, and it shall be the duty of the ward's employer...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1835
  In the event the ward violates the conditions laid down for his conduct, custody, or employment, the Youth Authority work furlough administrator may order termination...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1850
  The purpose of this article is to protect society more effectively by providing a system of flexible constraints and controls that utilize short-term confinement for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1851
  In order to provide appropriate facilities for the rehabilitative treatment of young offenders who otherwise may be committed to the Department of the Youth Authority...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1852
  Complete operation and authority for administration of the youth correctional center shall be vested in the county. The board of supervisors shall place responsibility for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1853
  Juvenile court wards and criminal offenders eligible for probation may be committed to youth correctional centers as a condition of probation, provided they come within...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1854
  While under commitment to the youth correctional center, the offender is subject to the control of the chief probation officer. The offender may be confined...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1855
  Earnings of offenders who reside in the center and work in the community shall be collected by the chief probation officer. From such earnings the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1856
  When in the opinion of the chief probation officer an offender appears to be unamenable to the program of the youth correctional center, he shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1857
  The Board of Corrections shall adopt and prescribe the minimum standards of construction, operation, programs of education or rehabilitative training or treatment, and qualifications of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1858
  No youth correctional center established pursuant to this article shall be planned to accommodate more than 350 youths under supervision at any one time. Any...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1859
  Where any such youth correctional center is established, and where the minimum standards and qualifications provided for in Section 1857 have been complied with by...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1860
  (a) From any state moneys made available to it for that purpose, the Youth Authority shall share in the cost pursuant to this article of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1861
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall report to the Legislature no later than the fifth legislative day of the 1974 Regular Session on the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1900
  The Legislature hereby finds that the most significant trend in the development of delinquency prevention programs has been in the direction of multipurpose youth service...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1901
  Pursuant to the provisions of this article, any public or private organization may make application to the Department of the Youth Authority for the purpose...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1902
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall develop, adopt, prescribe, monitor and enforce minimum standards for youth service bureaus funded under the provisions of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1903
  Application for funding of youth service bureaus under the provisions of this article shall be made in the manner prescribed by the Department of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1904
  From any state moneys made available to it for such purpose, the Department of the Youth Authority shall, in accordance with this article, share in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1905
  Each youth service bureau funded under this article shall maintain accurate and complete case records, reports, statistics and other information necessary for the conduct of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1910
  The Legislature hereby finds that wards are committed to the Department of the Youth Authority at rates and for seriousness of risks and needs which...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1911
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall, as resources are available, develop and implement a system to classify persons committed to the department. In developing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1912
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall, as resources are available, conduct an assessment of the feasibility and costs of developing and implementing a statewide...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1913
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall seek federal funds and funds from other sources to develop the classification system and to assess the feasibility...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1915
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall purchase, after a competitive bidding process, two medical devices that utilize a laser to remove a tattoo...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1950
  The purpose of this chapter is to enhance the capacity of local communities to implement an effective continuum of response to juvenile crime and delinquency.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1951
  (a) There is hereby established the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund. (b) Allocations from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund shall be used to enhance...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1952
  For the 2007-08 fiscal year, all of the following shall apply: (a) An amount equal to the total of all of the following shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1953
  For the 2008-09 fiscal year, the total of the following amounts shall be transferred from the General Fund to the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund:...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1953.5
  For the 2009-10 fiscal year, the total of the following amounts shall be transferred from the General Fund to the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund:...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1954
  For the 2010-11 fiscal year, and each year thereafter, an amount shall be transferred from the General Fund to the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1954.1
  For each fiscal year, the Director of Finance shall determine the total amount of the Youthful Offender Block Grant and the allocation for each county,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1955
  (a) The allocation amount for each county from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund for offenders subject to Sections 733, 1766, and 1767.35 shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1956
  The allocation for any eligible county from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund for offenders subject to Section 731.1 shall be determined by the Department...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1960
  The Legislature finds and declares that local youthful offender justice programs, including both custodial and noncustodial corrective services, are better suited to provide rehabilitative services...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1960.5
  (a) The State Commission on Juvenile Justice, pursuant to Section 1798.5, shall develop a Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan. On or before January 1, 2009,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1961
  On or before January 1, 2008, each county shall prepare and submit to the Corrections Standards Authority for approval a Juvenile Justice Development Plan for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1962
  (a) The Corrections Standards Authority, in consultation with the Division of Juvenile Facilities, may provide technical assistance to counties, including, but not limited to, regional...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1970
  For the purposes of this article, "participating county" means any county, or regional consortium of counties, within the state that has been certified to the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1971
  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a participating county, and the State Public Works Board are authorized to acquire, design, renovate, or construct a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1972
  Upon the receipt by a participating county of responsive construction bids, the board and the department may borrow funds for project costs after the project...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1973
  (a) The board may issue up to one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) in revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes, to finance the acquisition, design,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1974
  With the consent of the board, the department, and a participating county are authorized to enter into leases or subleases, as lessor or lessee, for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1975
  (a) The authority shall adhere to its duly adopted regulations for the approval or disapproval of local youthful offender rehabilitative facilities. The authority also shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 1976
  Participating county matching funds for projects funded under this article shall be a minimum of 25 percent of the total project costs. The authority may...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2000
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Youth Center and Youth Shelter Bond Act of 1988.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2001
  For purposes of this chapter: (a) "Acquiring" means obtaining ownership of an existing facility in fee simple for use as a youth center or youth...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2010
  Money in the 1988 County Correctional Facility Capital Expenditure and Youth Facility Bond Fund created pursuant to Section 4496.10 of the Penal Code shall, upon...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2011
  (a) The department shall, upon appropriation pursuant to Section 2010, make awards to public or private nonprofit agencies or joint ventures, or both, for the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2012
  (a) A recipient of a contract for the acquisition of a facility to be used as a youth center or youth shelter shall assure that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2013
  (a) The State of California shall be entitled to recapture a portion of state funds from the recipient of a contract if, within 10 years...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2014
  A facility altered, acquired, renovated, constructed, or equipped using funds allocated under this chapter may not be used and may not be intended to be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2015
  In a youth center or youth shelter facility that is shared with other age groups, funds received under this chapter may support only the following:...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2016
  The department prior to issuing a request for proposal shall create an advisory committee to secure from this committee advice on the request for proposal...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2017
  Proposals for both youth centers and youth shelters shall do all of the following: (1) Document the need for the applicant's proposal. (2) Contain a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2018
  (a) (1) Funds shall be available in response to requests for proposals. The department shall rank the proposals for funding on a priority consideration based...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2019
  The funds shall be given to applicants for youth shelters for abused and neglected children without regard to the priorities set forth in subdivision (a)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2020
  (a) For purposes of administering this chapter and the allocation of bond proceeds, the department shall treat funding for the youth centers and youth shelters...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2021
  No grant made pursuant to this chapter shall exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000).
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2022
  The committee, as defined in Section 4496.04 of the Penal Code, shall give priority to the issuance of bonds in order to carry out the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2023
  The department shall develop a statewide needs assessment which shall be completed and sent to the Legislature by May 3, 1991, with preliminary information provided...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2024
  The department shall administer funds appropriated for youth centers and youth shelters as specified in subdivision (b) of Section 4496.12 of the Penal Code.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2100
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that California's children are growing up under conditions of great stress that are resulting in devastating effects on their...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2102
  It is the goal of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to do all of the following: (a) To give every young person in California...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2104
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "At-risk youth" means an individual under 21 years of age whose environment increases their chance...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 2106
  It is the intent of the Legislature that all youth mentoring programs shall be afforded all of the following: (a) The adoption of quality assurance...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3000
  It is the intent of the Legislature that persons addicted to narcotics, or who by reason of repeated use of narcotics are in imminent danger...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3001
  The narcotic detention, treatment and rehabilitation facility referred to herein shall be one within the Department of Corrections whose principal purpose shall be the receiving,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3002
  Every person committed pursuant to this chapter or former Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 6399) of Title 7 of the Penal Code who escapes or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3003
  The Director of Corrections may enter into agreements with the Director of Mental Health or the Director of Developmental Services pursuant to which persons committed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3005
  The Director of the Department of Corrections shall engage in a program of research in the detention, treatment and rehabilitation of narcotic addicts.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3006
  No commitment under Article 2 or 3 of this chapter shall be ordered until such time as the Director of Corrections designates a place or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3008
  When a court commits a person to the custody of the Director of Corrections pursuant to this chapter, the court shall immediately after making the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3009
  A "narcotic addict," as used in this division refers to any person, adult or minor, who is addicted to the unlawful use of any narcotic...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3050
  Upon conviction of a defendant of a misdemeanor or infraction or following revocation of probation previously granted for a misdemeanor or infraction, whether or not...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3051
  Upon conviction of a defendant for a felony, or following revocation of probation previously granted for a felony, and upon imposition of sentence, if it...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3052
  (a) Sections 3050 and 3051 shall not apply to any of the following: (1) Persons convicted of any offense for which the provisions of Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3053
  (a) If at any time following receipt at the facility of a person committed pursuant to this article, the Director of Corrections concludes that the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3054
  A person committed to the custody of the Director of Corrections pursuant to this article is not required to register pursuant to Article 4 (commencing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3055
  The Director of Corrections is authorized to establish a limit on the number of persons that may be committed to the narcotic detention, treatment, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3100
  Anyone who believes that a person is addicted to the use of narcotics or by reason of the repeated use of narcotics is in imminent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3100.6
  Any peace officer or health officer who has reasonable cause to believe that a person is addicted to the use of narcotics or by reason...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3101
  Every person who knowingly contrives to have any person adjudged a narcotic addict under this article unlawfully or improperly, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3102
  Upon the filing of a proper petition pursuant to Section 3100, the court shall order the person sought to be committed to be examined by...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3102.5
  The petition filed pursuant to Section 3100 of this code shall contain the following: (a) The name, title and address of the petitioner. (b) The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3103
  At least one day before the time of the examination as fixed by the court order, a copy of the petition and order for examination...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3103.5
  Upon an order by the court that a person be examined, the court shall appoint two physicians to examine the person to determine whether the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3104
  If the report is to the effect that the person is addicted or is by reason of the repeated use of narcotics in imminent danger...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3105
  The court may issue subpoenas for attendance of witnesses at the hearing and the person sought to be committed shall have the right to have...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3106
  At the hearing, the court shall determine whether the person is addicted to the use of narcotics or is by reason of the repeated use...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3106.5
  If the court determines that the person is not addicted to the use of narcotics, or in imminent danger of addiction, the petition shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3107
  Hearing may be waived by consent of the person, expressed in open court or in writing by the person after the arraignment required by Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3108
  If the person so committed or any friend in his behalf is dissatisfied with the order of commitment, he may within 10 days after the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3109
  (a) If at any time following receipt at the facility of a person committed pursuant to this article, the Director of Corrections concludes that such...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3110
  A person committed to the custody of the Director of Corrections pursuant to this article is not required to register pursuant to Article 4 (commencing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3111
  In the performance of acts and duties required by this article, any peace officer, health officer, physician, superintendent of an institution or district attorney shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3150
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Narcotic Addict Evaluation Authority refers to the Board of Parole Hearings, any reference to the chairperson...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3151
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, after an initial period of observation and treatment, and subject to the rules and policies established by the secretary, whenever...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3152
  The rules for persons in outpatient status shall include but not be limited to close supervision of the person after release from the facility, periodic...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3152.5
  In outpatient revocation proceedings, an outpatient or his attorney shall receive a copy of any police, arrest, and crime reports pertaining to such proceedings. Portions...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3153
  The Director of Corrections is authorized to establish one or more halfway houses in large metropolitan areas as pilot projects in order to determine the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3154
  A person released in an outpatient status from the California Rehabilitation Center may, with the approval of the Department of Corrections and the Narcotic Addict...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3155
  In addition to any other payment to which he or she is entitled by law, each person who has been committed to the custody of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3156
  (a) Any rules and regulations, including any resolutions and policy statements, promulgated by the authority, shall be promulgated and filed pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3158
  Notwithstanding Section 11425.10 of the Government Code, Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3200
  (a) If at any time the Director of Corrections is of the opinion that a person committed pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 3100)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3201
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of this section, if a person committed pursuant to this chapter has not been discharged...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3300
  There is hereby established an institution and branches, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to be known as the California Rehabilitation...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3301
  The principal purpose of the California Rehabilitation Center shall be the receiving, control, confinement, employment, education, treatment and rehabilitation of persons under the custody of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3302
  The Director of Corrections shall acquire, or construct, and equip, in accordance with law, suitable buildings, structures and facilities for the California Rehabilitation Center.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3303
  (a) The Director of Corrections may prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of the California Rehabilitation Center. These rules and regulations shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3304
  A warden shall be appointed for the California Rehabilitation Center pursuant to Section 6050 of the Penal Code, and the Director of Corrections shall appoint,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3305
  The supervision, management and control of the California Rehabilitation Center and the responsibility for the care, custody, training, discipline, employment, and treatment of the persons...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3306
  The Director of Corrections may authorize the temporary removal from the California Rehabilitation Center or any of its branches under the jurisdiction of the Department...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3307
  The Director of Corrections may establish and operate facilities to be known as community correctional centers.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3308
  The primary purpose of such facilities is to provide housing, supervision, counseling, and other correctional programs for persons committed to the Director of Corrections.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3309
  Commencing July 1, 2005, the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall make rules and regulations for the government of the community correctional...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3310
  The Director of Corrections may transfer persons confined in the California Rehabilitation Center, or branches thereof, to community correctional centers and place persons on outpatient...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 3311
  The Director of Corrections may grant furloughs to residents of community correctional centers for the purpose of employment, education, including vocational training, or arranging a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4000
  There is in the Health and Welfare Agency a State Department of Mental Health.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4001
  As used in this division: (a) "Department" means the State Department of Mental Health. (b) "Director" means the Director of Mental Health. (c) "State hospital"...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4004
  The department is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of Mental Health.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4005
  With the consent of the Senate, the Governor shall appoint, to serve at his pleasure, the Director of Mental Health. He shall have the powers...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4005.1
  The department may adopt and enforce rules and regulations necessary to carry out its duties under this division.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4005.4
  All regulations heretofore adopted by the State Department of Health pursuant to authority now vested in the State Department of Mental Health by Section 4005.1...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4006
  With the approval of the Department of Finance and for use in the furtherance of the work of the State Department of Mental Health, the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4007
  The department may expend in accordance with law all money now or hereafter made available for its use, or for the administration of any statute...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4008
  (a) The department may expend money in accordance with law for the actual and necessary travel expenses of officers and employees of the department who...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4009
  The department may appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as it deems necessary, subject to the laws governing civil service.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4010
  Except as in this chapter otherwise prescribed, the provisions of the Government Code relating to state officers and departments shall apply to the State Department...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4011
  Unless otherwise indicated in this code, the State Department of Mental Health has jurisdiction over the execution of the laws relating to the care, custody,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4011.5
  In counties where State Department of Mental Health hospitals are located, the state hospitals shall ensure that appropriate special education and related services, pursuant to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4012
  The State Department of Mental Health may: (a) Disseminate educational information relating to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental disorder. (b) Upon request, advise...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4012.5
  The State Department of Mental Health may obtain psychiatric, medical and other necessary aftercare services for judicially committed patients on leave of absence from state...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4015
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall, in coordination with the task force described in subdivision (c) and with other state entities, including, but...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4016
  In every place in which a mentally disordered person may be involuntarily held, the persons confined therein shall be permitted access to and examination or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4017
  (a) The department may provide information to the Controller to guide distribution of resources dedicated for mental health services under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4021
  When the department has reason to believe that any person held in custody as mentally disordered is wrongfully deprived of his liberty, or is cruelly...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4022
  When complaint is made to the department regarding the officers or management of any hospital or institution for the mentally disordered, or regarding the management...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4024
  The State Department of Mental Health proposed allocations for level-of-care staffing in state hospitals that serve persons with mental disabilities shall be submitted to the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4024.5
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health and the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, jointly, shall develop a plan, by July 1, 1994,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4025
  Charges made by the department for the care and treatment of each patient in a facility maintained by the department shall not exceed the actual...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4027
  The State Department of Mental Health may adopt regulations concerning patients' rights and related procedures applicable to the inpatient treatment of mentally ill offenders receiving...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4030
  The Director of Mental Health shall organize appropriate staff of the department to ensure implementation of the planning, research, evaluation, technical assistance, and quality assurance...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4031
  The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent resources are available, do all of the following: (a) Conduct, sponsor, coordinate, and disseminate results...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4032
  The department shall, when appropriate, give and receive grants and contracts for research, evaluation, and quality assurance efforts.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4033
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent resources are available, comply with federal planning requirements. The department shall update and issue...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4040
  The State Department of Mental Health may conduct, or contract for, research or evaluation studies which have application to policy and management issues. In selecting...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4041
  The department shall serve as a clearinghouse for information on research and evaluation studies relevant to mental health. The department shall review and disseminate the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4042
  The department shall cooperate and coordinate with other state and local agencies engaged in research and evaluation studies. Effort shall be made to coordinate with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4043
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department provide leadership in the establishment and funding of mental health research projects. The projects...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4044
  Research performed pursuant to this chapter shall have as a priority serious mental disorders. Research shall be conducted in, or in collaboration with, state or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4045
  In order to improve the quality of mental health care in this state, a portion of the funding for research pursuant to this chapter shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4050
  The State Department of Mental Health shall provide, to the extent resources are available, technical assistance, through its own staff, or by contract, to county...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4051
  The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent resources are available, provide program development guidelines, evaluation models, and operational assistance on all aspects...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4052
  The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent resources are available, provide training in performance standards, model programs, cultural competency, and program development.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4060
  The department shall, in order to implement Section 4050, utilize a joint state-county decisionmaking process that shall include local mental health directors and representatives of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4061
  (a) The department shall utilize a joint state-county decisionmaking process to determine the appropriate use of state and local training, technical assistance, and regulatory resources...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4070
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall develop a quality assurance program to govern the delivery of Short-Doyle Medi-Cal services, in order to assure...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4071
  The department shall approve each local program's initial quality assurance plan, and shall thereafter review and approve each program's Short-Doyle Medi-Cal quality assurance plan whenever...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4074
  To the extent resources are available, the department shall utilize state and federal laws, research findings, and information collected for county programs to assess the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4075
  The department shall establish and maintain an equitable system of payment for the special needs of mentally disordered persons in private residential care facilities for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4076
  Counties which contract with private residential care facilities for additional services for mentally disabled persons involving payment of supplemental rates shall utilize the payment rate...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4078
  Facilities funded by contract for supplemental rates in accordance with this chapter shall be licensed under existing licensing categories, including provisional licenses.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4080
  (a) Psychiatric health facilities, as defined in Section 1250.2 of the Health and Safety Code, shall only be licensed by the State Department of Mental...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4090
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall establish, by regulation, standards for the programs listed in Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 5670) of Part...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4091
  Nothing in Section 4090 limits the authority of the State Department of Mental Health to delegate the evaluation and enforcement of the program standards to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4094
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall establish, by regulations adopted at the earliest possible date, but no later than December 31, 1994, program...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4094.1
  (a) (1) The department and the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with community treatment providers, local mental health departments, and county welfare departments,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4094.2
  (a) For the purpose of establishing payment rates for community treatment facility programs, the private nonprofit agencies selected to operate these programs shall prepare a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4094.5
  Regulations for community treatment facilities adopted pursuant to Section 4094 shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Only seriously emotionally disturbed children,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4094.6
  The patients' rights provisions contained in Sections 5325, 5325.1, 5325.2, and 5326 shall be available to any child admitted to, or eligible for admission to,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4094.7
  (a) A community treatment facility may have both secure and nonsecure beds. However, the State Department of Mental Health shall limit the total number of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4095
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that essential and culturally relevant mental health assessment, case management, and treatment services be available to wards...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4096
  (a) (1) Interagency collaboration and children's program services shall be structured in a manner that will facilitate future implementation of the goals of the Children's...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4096.5
  (a) The department shall make a determination, within 45 days of receiving a request from a group home to be classified at RCL 13 or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4097
  There is hereby established, under the administration of the State Department of Mental Health, an Early Intervention Mental Health Program. This program shall provide services...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4097.1
  Up to three million dollars ($3,000,000) may be allocated on an annual basis for three years to the department for this program. No more than...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4097.2
  Program services shall be designed to facilitate a relationship-based approach that promotes optimal social and emotional development of the child in interactions between parent, or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4097.3
  The program shall be formally evaluated by the department and the results of the evaluation reported to the fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4098
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Surgeon General of the United States has described suicide prevention as a serious public...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4098.1
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Suicide Prevention Act of 2000.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4098.2
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health, contingent upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, may establish and implement a suicide prevention, education, and gatekeeper...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4098.3
  The department may contract with an outside agency to establish and implement a targeted public awareness and education campaign on suicide prevention and treatment. Target...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4098.4
  (a) The department may contract with local mental health organizations and professionals with expertise in the assessment and treatment of suicidal behaviors to develop an...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4098.5
  The department may establish and implement, or contract with an outside agency for the development of a multicounty, 24-hour, centralized suicide crisis line integrated network....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4100
  The department has jurisdiction over the following institutions: (a) Atascadero State Hospital. (b) Coalinga State Hospital. (c) Metropolitan State Hospital. (d) Napa State Hospital. (e)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4100.2
  (a) Commencing January 10, 2009, and each year thereafter, the State Department of Mental Health shall provide the fiscal committees of the Legislature with a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4101
  Except as otherwise specifically provided elsewhere in this code, all of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4102
  Each state hospital is a corporation.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4106
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4104, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Mental Health, may grant to the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4107.1
  Consistent with the authority of the State Department of Mental Health to maintain and operate state hospitals under its jurisdiction, the State Department of Mental...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4109
  The State Department of Mental Health has general control and direction of the property and concerns of each state hospital specified in Section 4100. The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4110
  The medical superintendent shall make triplicate estimates, in minute detail, as approved by the State Department of Mental Health, of such supplies, expenses, buildings, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4112.1
  Section 4112 does not apply to the funds known as the "sheltered workshop funds."
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4113
  The state hospitals and the officers thereof shall make such financial statements to the Controller as the Controller requires.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4114
  The authorities for the several hospitals shall furnish to the State Department of Mental Health the facts mentioned in Section 4019 of this code and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4118
  The State Department of Mental Health shall cooperate with the United States Bureau of Immigration in arranging for the deportation of all aliens who are...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4119
  The State Department of Mental Health shall investigate and examine all nonresident persons residing in any state hospital for the mentally disordered and shall cause...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4120
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4121
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4122
  The State Department of Mental Health, when it deems it necessary, may, under conditions prescribed by the director, transfer any patients of a state institution...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4123
  The Director of Mental Health may authorize the transfer of persons from any institution within the department to any institution authorized by the federal government...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4124
  The State Department of Mental Health shall send to the Department of Veterans Affairs whenever requested a list of all persons who have been patients...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4126
  Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health dies, and any personal funds or property...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4127
  (a) Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health escapes, is discharged, or is on...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4132
  It is hereby declared that the provisions of this code reflect the concern of the Legislature that mentally disordered persons are to be regarded as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4133
  All day hospitals and rehabilitation centers maintained by the State Department of Mental Health shall be subject to the provisions of this code pertaining to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4134
  The state mental hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health shall comply with the California Food Sanitation Act, Article 1 (commencing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4135
  Any person committed to the State Department of Mental Health as a mentally abnormal sex offender shall remain a patient committed to the department for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4136
  (a) Each patient in a state hospital for the mentally disordered who has resided in the state hospital for a period of at least 30...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code 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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4138
  (a) Upon receiving a request from the director of a state hospital listed in Section 4100, the Director of Mental Health may prohibit the possession...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4200
  (a) Each state hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health shall have a hospital advisory board of eight members appointed by...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4201
  No person shall be eligible for appointment to a hospital advisory board if he is a Member of the Legislature or an elective state officer,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4202
  The advisory boards of the several state hospitals are advisory to the State Department of Mental Health and the Legislature with power of visitation and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4202.5
  (a) The chairman of a hospital advisory board advising a hospital for the mentally disordered shall meet annually with the hospital director, the community mental...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4203
  The Atascadero State Hospital shall have an advisory board of seven persons appointed by the Governor, each of whom holds office for the term of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4240
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The symptoms and behaviors of persons with serious mental disorders may cause severe disruption of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4241
  It is the intent of the Legislature, by this chapter, to support an organized program of self-help in which families exchange information, advice, and emotional...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4242
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Family" means persons whose children, spouses, siblings, parents, grandparents, or grandchildren have a serious mental...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4243
  (a) All funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter shall be used to contract with an organization to establish a statewide network of families...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4244
  The Director of Mental Health shall enter into a contract with the successful bidder to provide services which shall include, but not be necessarily limited...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4245
  Contracts entered in pursuant to this chapter shall: (a) Have an annual contract period from July 1 through June 30 of each fiscal year unless...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4300
  As used in this article, "officers" of a state hospital means: (a) Clinical director. (b) Hospital administrator. (c) Hospital director.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4301
  The Director of Mental Health shall appoint and define the duties, subject to the laws governing civil service, of the clinical director and the hospital...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4302
  The Director of the State Department of Mental Health shall have the final authority for determining all other employee needs after consideration of program requests...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4303
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4304
  The primary purpose of a state hospital is the medical and nursing care of patients who are mentally disordered. The efforts and direction of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4305
  Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, and under the supervision of the hospital director when the hospital director is the hospital...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4306
  Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, under the supervision of the hospital director when the hospital director is the clinical director,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4307
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4308
  As often as a vacancy occurs in a hospital under the jurisdiction of the Director of Mental Health, he shall appoint, as provided in Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4309
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4311
  The hospital administrator shall be responsible for preserving the peace in the hospital buildings and grounds and may arrest or cause the arrest and appearance...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4312
  The hospital director may establish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law or departmental regulations, concerning the care and treatment of patients, research, clinical training,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4313
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4314
  The Director of Mental Health may set aside and designate any space on the grounds of any of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4315
  Wherever the term "superintendent", "medical superintendent", or "superintendent or medical director" appears, the term shall be deemed to mean clinical director, except in Sections 4110,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4316
  Subject to rules and regulations adopted by the department, the hospital director may establish a sheltered workshop at a state hospital to provide patients with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4317
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4318
  Each state hospital shall, prior to the discharge of any patient who was placed in the facility under a county Short-Doyle plan, prepare a written...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4319
  To assure a continuous level of competency for all state hospital treatment personnel under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health, the department...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4320
  To assure an adequate supply of licensed psychiatric technicians for state hospitals for the mentally disordered, the State Department of Mental Health, to the extent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4330
  The State Department of Mental Health shall be reimbursed for use of state hospital beds by counties pursuant to Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4331
  (a) No later than July 1, 1992, and in each subsequent year, each county acting singly or in combination with other counties shall contract with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4332
  (a) Contracts entered into pursuant to Section 4331 shall do all of the following: (1) Specify the number of beds to be provided. (2) Specify...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4333
  (a) In the event a county or counties elect to reduce their state hospital resources, beginning July 1, 1992, systemwide state hospital net bed reduction...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4333.5
  (a) The department shall encourage the counties to use state hospital facilities, in addition to utilizing state hospital beds pursuant to contract, for additional treatment...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4334
  By July 1, 1992, the State Department of Mental Health, in collaboration with counties, shall do all of the following: (a) Prepare and publish a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4335
  Nothing in this chapter is intended to prevent the department from entering into innovative arrangements with counties for delivery of state hospital services. The Director...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4340
  The department shall maintain a statewide mental health prevention program directed toward a reduction in the need for utilization of the treatment system and the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4341
  (a) In order to ensure the availability of an adequate number of persons from all disciplines necessary to implement appropriate and effective services to severely...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4341.1
  (a) The task force funded by Schedule (a) of Item 4440-001-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2000 (Ch. 52, Stats. 2000) to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4341.5
  In order to ensure an adequate number of qualified psychiatrists and psychologists with forensic skills, the State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4343
  The Legislature recognizes that prevention and early intervention services have long been slighted in the community mental health programs and has identified, as a goal...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4344
  Primary intervention programs shall be developed in accordance with the guidelines and principles set forth in this chapter. To this end, school districts, publicly funded...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4345
  The Director of Mental Health shall develop guidelines for primary intervention programs in accordance with the following: (a) School-based programs shall serve children in grades...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4346
  (a) Each primary intervention program shall have a core team consisting of school-based mental health professionals, including credentialed school psychologists, school counselors, school social workers,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4347
  School districts or publicly funded preschools receiving funds under this chapter shall demonstrate a capability for referral to appropriate public and private community services. The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4348
  (a) (1) Subject to the availability of funding each year, the State Department of Mental Health shall award primary intervention program grants pursuant to a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4349
  The State Department of Mental Health shall, on the basis of applications submitted pursuant to a request for proposal, select recipients of primary intervention program...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4349.5
  Grants that have been awarded prior to the effective date of this section shall continue to be subject to the provisions of this chapter, including...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4349.7
  Proposals submitted to the department between April 1, 1992, and May 1, 1992, pursuant to Sections 4343 to 4350, inclusive, that received a passing score...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4350
  (a) The role of the school district or preschool in each approved primary intervention program shall be to do all of the following: (1) Arrange...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4350.5
  (a) School districts or county superintendents of schools proposing to serve as grant recipients pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 4348 shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4351
  The department shall provide for training of program personnel. Funds for this purpose may be appropriated under Section 11489 of the Health and Safety Code,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4352
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall conduct a review of each primary intervention program at least once during the first year of funding,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4352.5
  Up to 10 percent of the total state funds available annually for the primary intervention program from all sources may be utilized by the department...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4353
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a large population of persons who have suffered traumatic head injuries resulting in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4354
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Acquired traumatic brain injury" is an injury that is sustained after birth from an...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4354.5
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Ascertaining the number of Californians who survive traumatic brain injuries is difficult, but the best estimates are...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4355
  (a) The department shall designate sites in order to develop a system of postacute continuum-of-care models for adults 18 years of age or older with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4356
  (a) The department shall provide support to the four original pilot sites. (b) (1) The department shall award and administer grants to four additional sites,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4357
  (a) The sites shall be able to identify the special needs and problems of clients and the services shall be designed to meet those needs....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4357.1
  (a) The department shall convene a working group including the following persons as selected by the director: (1) A survivor currently using services in the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4357.2
  (a) New sites shall be chosen from areas of the state that are not currently served by a site. Two new sites shall be located...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4358
  There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund, the moneys in which may, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be expended...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4358.5
  (a) Funds deposited into the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund pursuant to paragraph (8) of subdivision (f) of Section 1464 of the Penal Code shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4359
  This chapter shall remain in effect until July 1, 2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute enacted prior to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4360
  (a) The department shall provide mental health treatment and supervision in the community for judicially committed persons. The program established and administered by the department...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4362
  The Legislature finds all of the following: (a) That state public policy discriminates against adults with brain damage or degenerative brain disease, such as Alzheimer's...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4362.5
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Brain damage," "degenerative brain diseases," and "brain impairment" mean significant destruction of brain tissue with resultant loss of brain...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4363
  The director shall administer this chapter and establish standards and procedures, as the director deems necessary in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4363.5
  The director shall do both of the following: (a) Contract with a nonprofit community agency meeting the requirements of this chapter to act as the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4364
  The Statewide Resources Consultant shall do all of the following: (a) Serve as the centralized information and technical assistance clearinghouse for brain-impaired adults, their families,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4364.5
  The Statewide Resources Consultant, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 4362.5, shall do the following: (a) Develop respite care training materials, with consultation by other...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4365
  In choosing an appropriate nonprofit community agency to act as the Statewide Resources Consultant, the director shall give priority to an agency which meets both...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4365.5
  (a) The Statewide Resources Consultant shall submit progress reports on its activities as required by the director. These reports shall include, but not be limited...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4366
  Resource centers shall serve all of the following functions: (a) Provide directly or assist families in securing information, advice, and referral services, legal services and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4366.5
  (a) Agencies designated as resource centers by the director after consultation with the Statewide Resources Consultant shall include in their governing or advisory boards, or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4367
  Resource centers shall carry out the functions specified in Section 4366 through the administration and provision of programs and services that reflect the most progressive...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4367.5
  The director shall establish criteria for client eligibility, including financial liability, pursuant to Section 4368. However, persons eligible for services provided by regional centers or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4368
  Persons receiving services pursuant to this chapter may be required to contribute to the cost of services depending upon their ability to pay, but not...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4368.5
  In considering total service funds available for the project, the director shall utilize funding available from appropriate state departments, including, but not limited to: the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4369
  There is within the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4369.1
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Department" means the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. (b) "Office" means the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4369.2
  (a) The office shall develop a problem gambling prevention program, which shall be the first priority for funding appropriated to this office. The prevention program...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4369.3
  In designing and developing the overall program, the office shall do all of the following: (a) Develop a statewide plan to address problem and pathological...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4369.4
  All state agencies, including, but not limited to, the California Horse Racing Board, the California Gambling Control Commission, the Department of Justice, and any other...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4370
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the School-based Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention Services for Children Act of 1991.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4371
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Each year in California over 65,000 teenagers become adolescent mothers and 230 teenagers commit suicide....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4372
  For the purposes of this part, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Cooperating entity" means any federal, state, or local, public or private nonprofit agency...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4380
  Subject to the availability of funding each year, the Legislature authorizes the director, in consultation with the Secretary of Child Development and Education and the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4381
  No funding shall be made available to any program or facility pursuant to this chapter unless all of the following conditions are met: (a) The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4383
  (a) For the 1991-92 and 1992-93 fiscal years, a local schoolsite may be awarded funding from the director pursuant to this part and from the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4390
  The Legislature finds that an evaluation of program effectiveness is both desirable and necessary and accordingly requires the following: No later than June 30, 1993,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4400
  There is in the Health and Welfare Agency a State Department of Developmental Services.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4401
  As used in this division: (a) "Department" means the State Department of Developmental Services. (b) "Director" means the Director of Developmental Services. (c) "State hospital"...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4404
  The department is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of Developmental Services.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4405
  With the consent of the Senate, the Governor shall appoint to serve at his pleasure, the Director of Developmental Services. He shall have the powers...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4406
  The State Department of Developmental Services succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the State Department of Health...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4407
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4408
  All officers and employees of the Director of Health who on the operative date of this section are serving in the state civil service, other...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4409
  All regulations heretofore adopted by the State Department of Health pursuant to authority now vested in the State Department of Developmental Services by Section 4406...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4410
  With the approval of the Department of General Services and for use in the furtherance of the work of the State Department of Developmental Services,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4411
  The department may expend in accordance with law all money now or hereafter made available for its use, or for the administration of any statute...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4412
  The department may expend money in accordance with law for the actual and necessary travel expenses of officers and employees of the department who are...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4413
  The department may appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as it deems necessary, subject to the laws governing civil service.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4414
  When convening any task force or advisory group, the department shall make its best effort to ensure representation by consumers and family members representing California's...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4415
  Except as in this chapter otherwise prescribed, the provisions of the Government Code relating to state officers and departments shall apply to the State Department...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4416
  Unless otherwise indicated in this code, the State Department of Developmental Services has jurisdiction over the execution of the laws relating to the care, custody,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4416.5
  The State Department of Developmental Services may contract with one or more qualified organizations to provide the services required by Section 1919 of the Social...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4417
  The State Department of Developmental Services may: (a) Disseminate educational information relating to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental retardation. (b) Upon request, advise...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4418
  The State Department of Developmental Services may obtain psychiatric, medical and other necessary aftercare services for judicially committed patients on leave of absence from state...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4418.1
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that it has a special obligation to ensure the well-being of persons with developmental disabilities who are moved from state hospitals...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4418.2
  The department shall support, utilizing regional resource development projects, the activities specified in Sections 4418.25, 4418.3, and 4418.7.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4418.25
  (a) The department shall establish policies and procedures for the development of an annual community placement plan by regional centers. The community placement plan shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4418.3
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that the transition process from a developmental center to a community living arrangement is based...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4418.5
  The department may provide protective social services for the care of developmentally disabled patients released from state hospitals of the department or to prevent the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4418.6
  The department may establish within its family care program respite care services for the developmentally disabled. Such respite care services may be available to both...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4418.7
  (a) If the regional center determines, or is informed by the consumer's parents, legal guardian, conservator, or authorized representative that the community placement of a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4419
  Within the limits of available funds it is the intent of the Legislature that the department shall require all personnel working directly with patients to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4420
  In order to assure an adequate number of qualified psychiatric technicians, psychiatrists, physicians and surgeons, psychologists, nurses, social workers, laboratory and other technicians, and ancillary...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4421
  In order to assure an adequate number of qualified psychiatrists and psychologists with forensic skills, the State Department of Developmental Services shall plan with the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4422
  The department may examine all public and private hospitals, boarding homes or other establishments whether or not licensed by the department, receiving or caring for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4423
  In every place in which a developmentally disabled person may be involuntarily held, the persons confined therein shall be permitted access to and examination or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4424
  The department shall adopt, for all hospitals, rules and regulations, books of record for all departments, blank forms for clinical records and other purposes, questions...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4425
  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,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4426
  The department may inquire into the manner in which any mentally retarded person subject to commitment, not confined in a state hospital, is cared for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4427
  When the department has reason to believe that any person held in custody as developmentally disabled is wrongfully deprived of his liberty, or is cruelly...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4427.5
  (a) A developmental center shall immediately report all resident deaths and serious injuries of unknown origin to the appropriate law enforcement agency that may, at...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4428
  When complaint is made to the department regarding the officers or management of any hospital or institution for the developmentally disabled, or regarding the management...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4429
  The department shall biennially report to the Legislature its acts and proceedings for the two years ending the June 30th last preceding, with such facts...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4430
  The department shall report to the Legislature the prospective needs for the care, custody, and treatment of developmentally disabled persons, together with its recommendations therefor....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4431
  Charges made by the department for the care and treatment of each patient in a facility maintained by the department shall not exceed the actual...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4432
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services shall report proposed allocations for level-of-care staffing in state hospitals that serve persons with developmental disabilities that shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4433
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The State of California accepts its responsibility to ensure and uphold the rights of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4433.5
  Notwithstanding Section 4433, the department may contract with the State Council on Developmental Disabilities for the purpose of utilizing area boards to provide clients' rights...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4434
  (a) Notwithstanding preexisting rights to enforce the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act (Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 4500)), it is the intent of the Legislature...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4440
  The department has jurisdiction over the following institutions: Agnews State Hospital. Camarillo State Hospital. Fairview State Hospital. Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital. Porterville State Hospital....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4440.1
  The department may contract with the State Department of Mental Health to provide services to persons with developmental disabilities in state hospitals under the jurisdiction...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4440.5
  A state hospital under the jurisdiction of the department may also be known as a developmental center.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4441
  Except as otherwise specifically provided elsewhere in this code, all of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4441.5
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall develop policies and procedures, by no later than 30 days following the effective date of the Budget Act...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4442
  Each state hospital is a corporation.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4443
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4444
  All lands necessary for the use of state hospitals except those acquired by gift, devise, or purchase, shall be acquired by condemnation as lands for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4445
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4444, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services, may grant rights-of-way for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4446
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4444, the Director of General Services may enter into an agreement with the City of Santa Clara for the dedication of a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4447
  Notwithstanding Section 4444, the Director of General Services with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services, may grant a right-of-way for road purposes...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4448
  The department shall participate with the City of Porterville in the construction of an interceptor sewer between the Porterville State Hospital facilities and the sewer...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4449
  The State Department of Developmental Services has general control and direction of the property and concerns of each state hospital specified in Section 4440. The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4450
  The medical superintendent shall make triplicate estimates, in minute detail, as approved by the State Department of Developmental Services of such supplies, expenses, buildings, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4451
  The state hospitals may manufacture supplies, materials, and assisting devices which are for the benefit of individuals with disabilities who otherwise would not have access...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4452
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4453
  The state hospitals and the officers thereof shall make such financial statements to the Controller as the Controller requires.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4454
  The authorities for the several hospitals shall furnish to the State Department of Developmental Services the facts mentioned in Section 4425 and such other obtainable...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4455
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4456
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4457
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4458
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall cooperate with the United States Bureau of Immigration in arranging for the deportation of all aliens who are...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4459
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall investigate and examine all nonresident persons judicially committed to any state hospital and shall cause such persons, when...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4460
  In order to be entitled to hospitalization in this state, an adult developmentally disabled person or the parent or guardian or conservator of a developmentally...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4461
  (a) All expenses incurred in returning such persons to other states shall be paid by this state, the person, or his or her relatives, but...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4462
  The State Department of Developmental Services, when it deems it necessary, may, under conditions prescribed by the director, transfer any patients of a state institution...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4463
  The Director of Developmental Services may authorize the transfer of persons from any institution within the department to any institution authorized by the federal government...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4464
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall send to the Department of Veterans Affairs whenever requested a list of all persons who have been patients...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4465
  The Director of Developmental Services may deposit any funds of patients in the possession of each hospital administrator of a state hospital in trust with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4466
  Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services dies, and any personal funds or property...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4467
  Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services escapes, or is discharged or is on...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4468
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4469
  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...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4470
  When any personal property has been destroyed as provided in Section 4466 or 4467, no suit shall thereafter be maintained by any person against the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4471
  All day hospitals and rehabilitation centers maintained by the State Department of Developmental Services shall be subject to the provisions of this code pertaining to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4472
  The state hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services shall comply with the California Food Sanitation Act, Article 1 (commencing with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4473
  Whenever a patient dies in a state hospital for the developmentally disabled and the coroner finds that the death was by accident or at the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4474
  Each patient in a state hospital for the developmentally disabled who has resided in the state hospital for a period of at least 30 days...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4474.1
  (a) Whenever the State Department of Developmental Services proposes the closure of a state developmental center, the department shall be required to submit a detailed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4474.2
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the department may operate any facility, provide its employees to assist in the operation of any facility,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4474.3
  The provisions of Section 10411 of the Public Contract Code shall not apply to any person who, in connection with the closure of Agnews Developmental...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4474.4
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Secretary of California Health and Human Services shall verify that the State Department of Developmental...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4474.5
  (a) In order to meet the unique medical health needs of consumers transitioning from Agnews Developmental Center into Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4474.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the State Department of Developmental Services shall continue the operation of the Agnews Outpatient Clinic until...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4500
  This division shall be known and may be cited as the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4500.5
  The Legislature makes the following findings regarding the State of California's responsibility to provide services to persons with developmental disabilities, and the right of those...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4501
  The State of California accepts a responsibility for persons with developmental disabilities and an obligation to them which it must discharge. Affecting hundreds of thousands...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4501.5
  In counties where State Department of Developmental Services hospitals are located, the state hospitals shall ensure that appropriate special education and related services, pursuant to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4502
  Persons with developmental disabilities have the same legal rights and responsibilities guaranteed all other individuals by the United States Constitution and laws and the Constitution...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4502.1
  The right of individuals with developmental disabilities to make choices in their own lives requires that all public or private agencies receiving state funds for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4503
  Each person with developmental disabilities who has been admitted or committed to a state hospital, community care facility as defined in Section 1502 of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4504
  The professional person in charge of the facility or his designee may, for good cause, deny a person any of the rights specified under subdivisions...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4505
  For the purposes of subdivisions (f) and (g) of Section 4503, if the patient is a minor age 15 years or over, the right to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4507
  Developmental disabilities alone shall not constitute sufficient justification for judicial commitment. Instead, persons with developmental disabilities shall receive services pursuant to this division. Persons who...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4508
  Persons with developmental disabilities may be released from developmental centers for provisional placement, with parental consent in the case of a minor or with the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4509
  By January 1, 1977, the Director of Developmental Services shall compile a roster of all persons who are in the custody of a state hospital,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4510
  The State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of Mental Health shall jointly develop and implement a statewide program for encouraging the establishment...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4511
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that meeting the needs and honoring the choices of persons with developmental disabilities and their families requires information, skills...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4512
  As used in this division: (a) "Developmental disability" means a disability that originates before an individual attains age 18 years, continues, or can be expected...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4513
  (a) Whenever the department allocates funds to a regional center through a request for proposal process to implement special projects funded through the Budget Act,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4514
  All information and records obtained in the course of providing intake, assessment, and services under Division 4.1 (commencing with Section 4400), Division 4.5 (commencing with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4514.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4514, information and records shall be disclosed to the protection and advocacy agency designated by the Governor in this state to fulfill...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4514.5
  Upon request of a family member of a resident of a state hospital, community care facility, or health facility, or other person designated by the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4515
  Signed consent forms by a person with a developmental disability or, where appropriate, the parent, guardian, or conservator, for release of any information to which...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4516
  When any disclosure of information or records is made as authorized by the provisions of subdivision (a), (d), or (q) of Section 4514 or Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4517
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the compilation and publication of statistical data for use by government or researchers and standards set...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4518
  Any person may bring an action against an individual who has willfully and knowingly released confidential information or records concerning him or her in violation...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4519
  (a) The department shall not expend funds, and a regional center shall not expend funds allocated to it by the department, for the purchase of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4519.7
  (a) Any regional center employee shall not be liable for civil damages on account of an injury or death resulting from an employee's act or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4525
  (a) In order to prevent any potential conflicts of interest, members of the state council may not be employees of a state, local, or private...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4530
  For administrative purposes only, the state council shall be attached to the California Health and Human Services Agency. The agency secretary shall ensure the state...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4535
  (a) The state council shall meet at least six times each year, and, on call of its chairperson, as often as necessary to fulfill its...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4543
  (a) Because of the vast size, complexity, and diversity of the State of California, the Legislature finds that the planning activities of the State Council...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4544
  The area boards in existence as of January 1, 2003, shall continue to exist, within the same geographic regions of the state after January 1,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4545
  The State Council on Developmental Disabilities shall periodically conduct a thorough review of the geographic boundaries served by area boards to determine whether existing area...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4546
  After January 1, 2003, area boards shall be comprised as follows: (a) For areas consisting of one to four counties, the area board shall consist...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4547
  (a) Each area board shall meet at least quarterly, and on call of the board chairperson, as often as necessary to fulfill its duties. All...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4548
  (a) Area boards shall locally assist the state council with the implementation of subtitles A and B of Title I of Public Law 106-402 (42...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4550
  The state council's operating costs shall include honoraria and actual and necessary expenses for council members, costs associated with the area boards, as described in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4551
  (a) (1) Within the limit of funds allotted for these purposes, the state council chairperson, with the concurrence of a majority of the state council,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4552
  The state council may contract for additional assistance with any public or private agency or individual to carry out planning, monitoring, evaluation, and other responsibilities...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4552.5
  The state council may request information, records, and documents from any other agency of state government, except for confidential patient records. These agencies shall comply...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4553
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the advocacy, coordinating, appeals, and other related functions of area boards cannot be effectively provided unless area boards...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4555
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any contract entered into between the State of California and the state council may provide for periodic advanced payments...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4560
  The Legislature finds that whenever multiple, uncoordinated, and duplicative planning activities are conducted by different state agencies on behalf of persons with developmental disabilities, the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4561
  In order to integrate all relevant state planning and budgeting, and in order to comply with federal requirements, a California Developmental Disabilities State Plan shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4562
  (a) The state council and the area boards on developmental disabilities shall conduct activities necessary to develop or implement the state plan in the various...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4563
  (a) Area boards shall assess the extent to which services, supports, and other forms of assistance are available to individuals with developmental disabilities and their...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4564
  The state council, in conjunction with the area boards, shall conduct open hearings on the state plan and related budgetary issues prior to submission of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4565
  The state plan shall be given to the Governor, the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, the protection and advocacy agency designated...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4566
  The state plan shall, in addition to the requirements established herein, comply in substance and format with requests of the Secretary of Health and Human
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4567
  All state agencies shall cooperate with the reasonable requests of the state council by providing information to the state council in the preparation of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4568
  In no event shall the state council allot federal funds from Public Law 106-402, as amended (42 U.S.C. Sec. 15001 et seq.), to state agencies...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4570
  (a) In order to remain informed regarding the quality of services in the area and to protect the legal, civil, and service rights of persons...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4620
  (a) In order for the state to carry out many of its responsibilities as established in this division, the state shall contract with appropriate agencies...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4620.1
  The Legislature recognizes the ongoing contributions many parents and family members make to the support and well-being of their children and relatives with developmental disabilities....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4620.2
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services, after consultation with stakeholder groups, shall develop a system of enrollment fees, copayments, or both, to be assessed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4621
  The department, within the limitations of funds appropriated, shall contract with appropriate private nonprofit corporations for the establishment of regional centers. Notwithstanding any other provision...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4621.5
  Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 1 of Chapter 501 of the Statutes of 1971, the department shall, within the limitations of funds appropriated, contract with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4622
  The state shall contract only with agencies, the governing boards of which conform to all of the following criteria: (a) The governing board shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4623
  In the event that the governing board of the regional center is not composed of individuals as specified in subdivisions (a) to (f), inclusive, of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4624
  When the governing board of the regional center is not composed of individuals as specified in subdivisions (a) to (f), inclusive, of Section 4622, the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4625
  The department shall not contract with any new regional center contracting agency unless the governing board of the agency is composed of individuals as specified...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4626
  (a) In order to prevent potential conflicts of interest, no member of the governing board or member of the program policy committee of a regional...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4627
  The director of the department shall promulgate and enforce conflict of interest regulations to insure that members of the governing board, program policy committee, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4628
  If, for good reason, a contracting agency is unable to meet all the criteria for a governing board established in this chapter, the director may...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4629
  (a) The state shall enter into five-year contracts with regional centers, subject to the annual appropriation of funds by the Legislature. (b) The contracts shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4630
  The contract between the state and the contracting agency shall not: (a) Require information that violates client confidentiality. (b) Prevent a regional center from employing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4631
  (a) In order to provide to the greatest extent practicable a larger degree of uniformity and consistency in the services, funding, and administrative practices of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4632
  If the department and a regional center are unable to resolve any contract dispute, including disputes between the regional center and the department over whether...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4633
  If the department or any regional center intends to adopt any material change in policy which will have a direct effect upon the contract between...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4634
  Contracts between the department and regional center shall be presented for final negotiation to regional center governing boards at least 90 days' prior to the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4635
  (a) If any regional center finds that it is unable to comply with the requirements of this division or its contract with the state, the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4636
  If necessary, to avoid disruption of the service program, the department may directly operate a regional center during the interim period between the termination of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4638
  Non-profit corporations operating regional centers shall not use state funds allocated to the corporation for operating the center for activities directly related to influencing employees...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4639
  The governing board of a regional center shall annually contract with an independent accounting firm for an audited financial statement. The audit report and accompanying...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4639.5
  (a) By December 1 of each year, each regional center shall provide a listing to the State Department of Developmental Services a complete current salary...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4639.75
  (a) On an ongoing basis, and as necessary, the State Department of Developmental Services shall provide to regional centers, and make available on the Internet,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4640
  (a) Contracts between the department and regional centers shall specify the service area and the categories of persons that regional centers shall be expected to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4640.6
  (a) In approving regional center contracts, the department shall ensure that regional center staffing patterns demonstrate that direct service coordination are the highest priority. (b)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4640.7
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that regional centers assist persons with developmental disabilities and their families in securing those services and supports...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4640.8
  When convening any task force or advisory group, a regional center shall make its best effort to ensure representation by consumers and family members representing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4641
  All regional centers shall conduct casefinding activities, including notification of availability of service in English and such other languages as may be appropriate to the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4642
  Any person believed to have a developmental disability, and any person believed to have a high risk of parenting a developmentally disabled infant shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4643
  (a) If assessment is needed, the assessment shall be performed within 120 days following initial intake. Assessment shall be performed as soon as possible and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4643.3
  (a) (1) On or before April 1, 2002, the department shall develop evaluation and diagnostic procedures for the diagnosis of autism disorder and other autistic...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4643.5
  (a) If a consumer is or has been determined to be eligible for services by a regional center, he or she shall also be considered...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4644
  (a) In addition to any person eligible for initial intake or assessment services, regional centers may cause to be provided preventive services to any potential...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4646
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that the individual program plan and provision of services and supports by the regional center...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4646.4
  (a) Effective September 1, 2008, regional centers shall ensure, at the time of development, scheduled review, or modification of a consumer's individual program plan developed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4646.5
  (a) The planning process for the individual program plan described in Section 4646 shall include all of the following: (1) Gathering information and conducting assessments...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4646.6
  Notwithstanding Section 632 of the Penal Code, a consumer, or his or her parent, guardian, conservator, or authorized representative, shall have the right to record...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4647
  (a) Pursuant to Section 4640.7, service coordination shall include those activities necessary to implement an individual program plan, including, but not limited to, participation in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4648
  In order to achieve the stated objectives of a consumer's individual program plan, the regional center shall conduct activities including, but not limited to, all...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4648.1
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services and regional centers may monitor services and supports purchased for regional center consumers with or without prior notice....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4648.2
  By September 1, 1986, the State Department of Developmental Services shall promulgate regulations which establish a process for service providers to appeal actions the department...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4648.3
  A provider of transportation services to regional center clients for the regional center shall maintain protection against liability for damages for bodily injuries or death...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4648.4
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2006, rates for services listed in paragraphs (1), (2), with the exception of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4649
  Regional centers shall cooperate with area boards in joint efforts to inform the public of services available to persons with developmental disabilities and of their...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4650
  Regional centers shall be responsible for developing an annual plan and program budget to be submitted to the director no later than September 1 of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4651
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that regional centers shall find innovative and economical methods of achieving the objectives contained in individual program...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4652
  A regional center shall investigate every appropriate and economically feasible alternative for care of a developmentally disabled person available within the region. If suitable care...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4653
  Except for those developmentally disabled persons judicially committed to state hospitals, no developmentally disabled person shall be admitted to a state hospital except upon the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4654
  Before any person is examined by a regional center pursuant to Section 1370.1 of the Penal Code, the court ordering such medical examination shall transmit...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4655
  The director of a regional center or his designee may give consent to medical, dental, and surgical treatment of a regional center client and provide...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4656
  (a) A qualified physician and surgeon who diagnoses a developmental disability, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 4512, of a patient who is a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4657
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall, through the regional center contract, insure that the following information is collected by each regional center for each...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4658
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall insure that all potentially eligible clients are referred to the Social Security Administration for eligibility determination for Old...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4659
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) or (c), the regional center shall identify and pursue all possible sources of funding for consumers receiving...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4660
  All meetings of the board of directors of each regional center shall be scheduled, open, and public, and all persons shall be permitted to attend...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4661
  (a) Regional centers shall mail notice of their meetings to any person who requests notice in writing. Notice shall be mailed at least seven days...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4662
  In the case of an emergency situation involving matters upon which prompt action is necessary due to the disruption or threatened disruption of regional center...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4663
  (a) The governing board of a regional center may hold a closed meeting to discuss or consider one or more of the following: (1) Real...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4664
  The governing board of a regional center may hold a closed session regarding pending litigation when discussion in open session concerning those matters would prejudice...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4665
  Agendas and other writings or materials distributed prior to or during a regional center board meeting for discussion or action at the meeting shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4666
  No regional center shall conduct any meeting, conference, or other function in any facility that prohibits the admittance of any person, or persons, on the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4667
  All regional center board meetings shall be held in facilities accessible to persons with physical disabilities.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4668
  (a) Any action taken by a regional center governing board in violation of this article is null and void. Any interested person may commence an...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4669
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to the corporate affairs of the governing board of a regional center which have no relationship to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4669.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and provided that there shall be no reduction in direct service to persons eligible for services under this...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4669.75
  (a) Any proposal approved by the department pursuant to this article may be implemented immediately upon approval. Prior to submitting a proposal to the department,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4670
  The Legislature finds that there is a shortage of programs and facilities to provide a comprehensive network of habilitation services to persons with developmental disabilities...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4675
  On and after January 1, 1978, the state plan established in this division shall be the primary method used for determining, in an orderly way,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4676
  Prior to making an appropriation or allocating any state or federal funds for new or major expansions of programs or facilities for persons with developmental...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4677
  (a) All parental fees collected by or for regional centers shall be remitted to the State Treasury to be deposited in the Developmental Disabilities Program...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4678
  (a) The State Council on Developmental Disabilities, in implementing subdivision (b) of Section 4677, and with the support of the State Department of Developmental Services,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4680
  In order to assure the availability of a continuum of community living facilities of good quality for persons with developmental disabilities, and to ensure that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4681
  By July 1, 1977, and each year thereafter, the department shall establish rates, which shall be reviewed by the state council. Such rates shall annually...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4681.1
  (a) The department shall adopt regulations that specify rates for community care facilities serving persons with developmental disabilities. The implementation of the regulations shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4681.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, for the 1996-97 fiscal year, the rate schedule authorized by the department in operation June 30, 1996,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4681.4
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, for the 1998-99 fiscal year, the rate schedule increased pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 4681.3 shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4681.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, no regional center may approve any service level for a residential service provider, as defined in Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4681.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2008: (a) No regional center may pay an existing residential service provider, for services...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4682
  Under no circumstances shall the rate of state payment to any provider of out-of-home care exceed the average amount charged to private clients residing in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4683
  It is the intent of the Legislature that rates of payment for out-of-home care shall be established in such ways as to assure the maximum...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the cost of providing 24-hour out-of-home nonmedical care and supervision in community care facilities licensed or approved pursuant...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.50
  (a) (1) "Adult Residential Facility for Persons with Special Health Care Needs (ARFPSHN)" means any adult residential facility that provides 24-hour health care and intensive...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.53
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of Social Services shall jointly implement a pilot project to test the effectiveness of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.55
  (a) No regional center may pay a rate to any ARFPSHN for any consumer that exceeds the average annual cost of serving a consumer at...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.58
  The regional center may recommend for participation, the State Department of Developmental Services, an applicant for this pilot project when the applicant meets all of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.60
  The vendoring regional center shall, before placing any consumer into an ARFPSHN, ensure that the ARFPSHN has a license issued by the State Department of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.63
  (a) Each ARFPSHN shall do all of the following: (1) Meet the minimum requirements for a Residential Facility Service Level 4-i pursuant to Sections 56004...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.65
  (a) A regional center shall not place, or fund the placement for, any consumer in an ARFPSHN until the individual health care plan team has...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.68
  (a) The individual health care plan shall include, at a minimum, all of the following: (1) An evaluation of the consumer's current health. (2) A...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.70
  (a) The State Department of Social Services, in administering the licensing program, shall not have any responsibility for evaluating consumers' level of care or health...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.73
  (a) In addition to any other contract termination provisions, a regional center may terminate its contract with an ARFPSHN when the regional center determines that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.74
  (a) By July 1, 2006, the State Department of Developmental Services shall contract with an independent agency or organization to evaluate the pilot project and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4684.75
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services may adopt emergency regulations to implement this article. The adoption, amendment, repeal, or readoption of a regulation authorized...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4685
  (a) Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature finds and declares that children with developmental disabilities most often have greater opportunities for educational and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4685.1
  (a) When a minor child requires a living arrangement outside of the family home, as determined in the individual program plan developed pursuant to Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4685.7
  (a) Contingent upon approval of a federal waiver, the Self-Directed Services Program (SDS Program) is hereby established and shall be available in every regional center...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4686
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an in-home respite worker may perform gastrostomy care and feeding of clients of regional centers, after successful completion...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4687
  Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature recognizes the rights of persons with disabilities to have relationships, marry, be a part of a family,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4688
  (a) Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature places a high priority on providing opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities to be integrated into...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4688.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the department may approve a proposal or proposals by Golden Gate Regional Center, Regional Center...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4688.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the department may receive and approve a proposal or proposals by any regional center to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4689
  Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature places a high priority on providing opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities, regardless of the degree of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4689.1
  (a) The Legislature declares that it places a high priority on providing opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities to live with families approved by family...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4689.2
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to require the filing of fingerprints of those individuals whose contact with consumers...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4689.3
  (a) A family home agency shall not place an adult with developmental disabilities in a family home until the family home agency has received a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4689.4
  The State Department of Developmental Services may deny an application for vendorization or terminate vendorization as a family home agency or family home upon the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4689.5
  (a) Proceeding for the termination, or denial of vendorization as a family home agency or family home pursuant to Section 4689.4 shall be conducted in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4689.6
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services may prohibit a vendor from employing, or continuing the employment of, or allowing in a family home, or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4689.7
  (a) For the 1998-99 fiscal year, levels of payment for supported living service providers that are vendored pursuant to Section 4689 shall be increased based...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4689.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2008: (a) No regional center may pay an existing supported living service provider, for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4690
  The Director of Developmental Services shall establish, maintain, and revise, as necessary, an equitable process for setting rates of state payment for nonresidential services purchased...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4690.1
  (a) By March 1, 1986, the department, in consultation with representatives of regional centers and providers of transportation services to regional center clients, shall develop...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4690.2
  (a) The Director of Developmental Services shall develop program standards and establish, maintain, and revise, as necessary, an equitable process for setting rates of state...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4690.3
  (a) For the 1998-99 fiscal year, rates for in-home respite services agencies that are vendored pursuant to Section 4690.2 and the department's regulations to provide...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4690.4
  (a) Sections 4690.2, 4691, and 4691.5, which relate to in-home respite service agencies and community-based day programs, shall apply in the 1998-99 fiscal year with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4690.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2006, the rate for family member-provided respite services authorized by the department and in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4691
  (a) The Legislature reaffirms its intent that community-based day programs be planned and provided as part of a continuum of services to enable persons with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4691.5
  The ratesetting methodology, to be established pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 4691 shall include, but need not be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4691.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2006, the community-based day program, work activity program, and in-home respite service agency...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4691.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, and to the extent funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act for this purpose, the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4691.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2008: (a) No regional center shall pay an existing service provider, for services where...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4693
  For the purposes of this article, "infant day program" means a day training and activity program where infants and their families are provided training individually...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4694
  Commencing July 1, 2006, all regional center vendors who are qualified providers under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4695
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall offer, through the regional centers, in conjunction with community colleges which elect to participate, a uniform statewide training...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4695.2
  (a) Each direct care staff person employed in a licensed community care facility that receives regional center funding shall be required to satisfactorily complete two...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4696
  The Legislature places a high priority on ensuring that regional center clients and their families can avail themselves of mental health services which are appropriate...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4696.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that improved cooperative efforts between regional centers and county mental health agencies are necessary in order to achieve each...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4697
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The methods of establishing rates of payment for providers of services and supports to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4700
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4701
  "Adequate notice" means a written notice informing the applicant, recipient, and authorized representative of at least all of the following: (a) The action that the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4701.5
  "Applicant" means a person who has applied for services from a service agency, or on whose behalf services have been applied for.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4701.6
  "Authorized representative" means the conservator of an adult, the guardian, conservator, or parent or person having legal custody of a minor claimant, or a person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4702
  "Claimant" means an applicant for or recipient of services who has filed for a fair hearing.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4702.5
  "Days" means calendar days unless otherwise noted.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4702.6
  "Hearing request form" means a document that shall include the name, address, and birth date of the claimant, date of request, reason for the request,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4702.7
  For purposes of this section, "medicaid home and community-based waiver participant" means an individual deemed eligible and receiving services through the Medicaid Home and Community-based...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4703
  "Persons who have the right to request a fair hearing" means applicant, recipient, applicant or recipient's legal guardian or conservator, applicant or recipient's parent, if...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4703.5
  "Recipient" means a person with a developmental disability who is eligible for and receives services from a service agency.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4703.6
  "Responsible state agency" means the state agency with which a state appeal is required to be filed.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4703.7
  "Services" means the type and amount of services and service components set forth in the recipient's individual program plan pursuant to Section 4646.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4704
  "Service agency" means any developmental center or regional center that receives state funds to provide services to persons with developmental disabilities.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4704.5
  For purposes of Sections 4710.9, 4711, 4711.5, 4711.7, 4712, and 4712.5, the director of the responsible state agency includes a designee thereof, which may, but...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4704.6
  Each regional center and each vendor that contracts with a regional center to provide services to consumers shall conspicuously post on its Internet Web site,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4705
  (a) Every service agency shall, as a condition of continued receipt of state funds, have an agency fair hearing procedure for resolving conflicts between the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4706
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) to the extent permitted by federal law, all issues concerning the rights of persons with developmental disabilities to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4707
  By July 1, 1999, the State Department of Developmental Services shall implement a mediation process for resolving conflicts between regional centers and recipients of services...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4710
  (a) Adequate notice shall be sent to the applicant or recipient and the authorized representative, if any, by certified mail at least 30 days prior...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4710.5
  (a) Any applicant for or recipient of services, or authorized representative of the applicant or recipient, who is dissatisfied with any decision or action of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4710.6
  (a) Upon receipt by the service agency director of the hearing request form requesting a fair hearing, mediation, or a voluntary informal meeting, the service...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4710.7
  (a) Upon requesting a fair hearing, the claimant has the right to request a voluntary informal meeting with the service agency director or his or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4710.8
  (a) At an informal meeting, the claimant shall have the rights stated pursuant to Section 4701. (b) An informal meeting shall be held at a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4710.9
  (a) If the claimant or his or her authorized representative is satisfied with the decision of the service agency following an informal meeting, he or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4711
  Upon receipt of the hearing request form, where a fair hearing has been requested but mediation has not, the responsible state agency director shall immediately...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4711.5
  (a) Upon receipt of the written request for mediation, the service agency shall be given five working days to accept or decline mediation. (b) If...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4711.7
  (a) If the issue or issues involved in the mediation are resolved to the satisfaction of both parties, the mediator shall prepare a written resolution....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4712
  (a) The fair hearing shall be held within 50 days of the date the hearing request form is received by the service agency, unless a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4712.2
  (a) Two or more claimants with a common complaint, or their authorized representatives, or a service agency may request the consolidation of appeals involving a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4712.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), within 10 working days of the concluding day of the state hearing, but not later than 80 days...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4712.7
  In addition to any other delegation of authority granted to the Director of Health Services, the director may delegate his or her authority to adopt...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4713
  (a) If the hearing officer's decision is unfavorable to the claimant, and the claimant has been receiving the services which have been the subject of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4714
  (a) Commencing July 1, 1999, for each appeal request submitted pursuant to Section 4710.5, regional centers and developmental centers shall submit information to the department...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4715
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, if a request for a hearing is postmarked or received by the service agency no later than...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4716
  Nothing in this chapter shall presume the incompetence of any person with a developmental disability to participate in any of the appeals procedures established herein.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4725
  For the purposes of this article: (a) "Access" means the right to inspect, review, and obtain an accurate copy of any record obtained in the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4726
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5328, access to records shall be provided to an applicant for, or recipient of, services or to his or her...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4727
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to compel a physician, psychologist, social worker, nurse, attorney, or other professional person to reveal information which has...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4728
  Each service agency shall adopt procedures for granting of requests by persons authorized under Section 4726 for access to records during regular business hours, provided...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4729
  Whenever access to service agency records is requested, the service agency shall provide at least the following information: (a) The types of records maintained by...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4730
  Any person who willfully and knowingly violates the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4731
  (a) Each consumer or any representative acting on behalf of any consumer or consumers, who believes that any right to which a consumer is entitled...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4740
  The Legislature finds the following: (a) The quality of care provided to persons with developmental disabilities by residential facilities is contingent upon a closely coordinated...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4741
  An adult person with a developmental disability has the legal right to determine where his or her residence will be. Except in a situation which...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4742
  The regional center or its designated representative shall (a) guide and counsel facility staff regarding the care and services and supports required by each consumer...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4742.1
  (a) A statement made by a regional center representative when discharging his or her obligation to monitor the provision of services and supports pursuant to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4743
  It is the intent of the Legislature that to the greatest extent possible, the staff of the regional center or its designee are assigned so...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4744
  The regional center or its designee shall provide to the residential facility administrator all information in its possession concerning any history of dangerous propensity of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4745
  During each visit to the facility, the designated staff person shall inform the administrator orally of any substantial inadequacies in the care and services provided,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4746
  The severity of the deficiencies and the quality of care provided shall determine how long the regional center or its designee will work with the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4747
  If a consumer or, when appropriate, the parent, guardian, or conservator or authorized representative, including those appointed pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 4548 or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4748
  Within nine months of the effective date of this section, the State Department of Developmental Services shall develop and implement regulations for use by the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4750
  The Legislature intends that expenditures on state programs for persons with developmental disabilities shall have measurable and desirable results. The results shall reflect the degree...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4750.5
  In order to gather data that is relevant to ensuring the safety and well-being of persons with developmental disabilities, the department shall ensure that the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4752
  The department shall prepare by July 1, 1978, a plan for using the method to obtain and report statewide information on program effectiveness. The plan...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4753
  By January 1, 1979, the department shall implement the evaluation system for all programs under its jurisdiction.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4754
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any agency providing services to persons with developmental disabilities from utilizing additional evaluation mechanisms for the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4775
  The Legislature finds that the method of appropriating funds for numerous programs for the developmentally disabled affects the availability and distribution of services and must...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4776
  On or before August 1 of each year, each regional center shall submit to the department and the state council a program budget plan for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4776.5
  (a) Regional centers shall not be subject to any provision of law, regulation, or policy required of state agencies pertaining to the planning and acquisition...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4777
  On or before September 1 of each year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall submit to the state council: (a) An estimate of all developmentally...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4778
  To the extent feasible, all funds appropriated for developmental disabilities programs under this part shall be allocated to those programs by August 1 of each
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4780
  When appropriated by the Legislature, the department may receive and expend all funds made available by the federal government, the state, its political subdivisions, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4780.5
  The State Department of Developmental Services is responsible for the processing, audit, and payment of funds made available to regional centers under this division. The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4781
  The department may accept and expend grants, gifts, and legacies of money and, with the consent of the Department of Finance, may accept, manage, and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4781.5
  (a) For the 2006-07 fiscal year only, a regional center may not expend any purchase of service funds for the startup of any new program...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4781.6
  (a) A regional center shall not expend any purchase of service funds for the startup of any new program unless the expenditure is necessary to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4782
  Parents of children under the age of 18 years who are receiving 24-hour out-of-home care services through a regional center or who are residents of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4783
  (a) (1) The Family Cost Participation Program is hereby created in the State Department of Developmental Services for the purpose of assessing a cost participation...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4784
  (a) The Director of Developmental Services shall establish, annually review, and adjust as needed, a schedule of parental fees for services received through the regional...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4786
  The director shall develop, establish, and maintain an equitable system of rates of state payment for care and services purchased by the department from community...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4787
  (a) The department shall, in developing the annual budget for regional center-funded services and supports for residents of developmental centers who are projected to move...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4790
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide an incentive for regional centers to select out-of-home placements that are most appropriate for each...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4800
  (a) Every adult who is or has been admitted or committed to a state hospital, developmental center, community care facility, as defined in Section 1502...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4801
  (a) Judicial review shall be in the superior court for the county in which the state hospital, developmental center, community care facility, or health facility...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4802
  This chapter shall not be construed to impair the right of a conservator of an adult developmentally disabled patient to remove the patient from the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4803
  If a regional center recommends that a person be admitted to a community care facility or health facility as a developmentally disabled resident, the employee...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4804
  Whenever a proceeding is held in a superior court under the provisions of this chapter, involving a person who has been placed in a state...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4805
  Objections to proposed transfers between state hospitals shall be resolved pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 4700).
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4825
  The provisions of this division shall not be construed to terminate any appointment of the State Department of Mental Health as guardian of the estate...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4830
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Continuum" means a coordinated multicomponent services system within the geographic borders of each of the 13 area boards on...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4831
  The State Department of Developmental Services may develop the design and phase-in plan for continuums and may designate one or more designated agencies to implement...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4832
  An area board may review and evaluate existing and proposed community living arrangement programs within their jurisdiction and may make a recommendation to the Director...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4833
  Upon designation by the Department of Developmental Services pursuant to Section 4831, the designated agency established pursuant to Section 4832 shall: (a) Design, organize and/or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4834
  The Director of the Department of Developmental Services may contract with a designated agency, pursuant to this chapter.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4835
  The Director of Developmental Services may establish uniform operational procedures, performance and evaluation standards and utilization criteria for designated agencies pursuant to this chapter. These...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4836
  The director shall prepare a yearly report to the Legislature on the progress and effectiveness of the system using the state evaluation model in accordance...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4837
  The Director of Developmental Services may provide 90-day advance funding to the designated agency or community-based programs for the development or provision of continuum services...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4839
  The State Department of Developmental Services may study and prepare a plan in cooperation with the State Council on Developmental Disabilities. The plan should consider...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4841
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4675, 4676 and 4677, the Director of Developmental Services, when reviewing, approving, and allocating money from the Program Development Fund...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4843
  To accomplish the goals enumerated in Section 4833, the director may: (a) Develop a continuum training model and provide technical assistance to providers of community...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4844
  The Director of Developmental Services shall initiate and monitor interagency performance agreements between the Department of Rehabilitation, the Department of Mental Health, the Department of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4845
  If authorized by regulations adopted by the department and if not available through other state or local programs, the continuum services may with respect to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4846
  Interagency agreements shall be established between the regional centers and the community living continuums to assure clear roles and responsibilities for delivery of services; and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4850
  (a) The Legislature reaffirms its intent that habilitation services for adults with developmental disabilities should be planned and provided as a part of a continuum...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4850.1
  Notwithstanding Section 19050.9 of the Government Code, beginning July 1, 2004, the State Department of Developmental Services shall succeed to all functions and responsibilities of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4850.2
  (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided, this chapter shall only apply to those habilitation services purchased by the regional centers. (b) Nothing in this section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4851
  The definitions contained in this chapter shall govern the construction of this chapter, with respect to habilitation services provided through the regional center, and unless...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4852
  A consumer shall be referred to a provider of habilitation services under this chapter when all of the following apply: (a) The individual is an...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4853
  (a) When a referral for habilitation services pursuant to Section 4852 has been made and if the individual is placed in a work activity program,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4854
  In developing the individual habilitation service plan pursuant to Section 4853, the habilitation service provider shall develop specific and measurable objectives to determine whether the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4854.1
  The individual program plan planning team, shall, pursuant to Section 4646, meet, when it is necessary to review any of the following: (a) The appropriateness...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4855
  When an individual who is eligible for habilitation services under this chapter is referred to the Department of Rehabilitation for vocational rehabilitation services, including supported...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4856
  (a) The regional center shall monitor, evaluate, and audit habilitation services providers for program effectiveness, using performance criteria that include, but are not limited to,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4857
  The regional center shall purchase habilitation services pursuant to the individual program plan. Habilitation services shall continue as long as satisfactory progress is being made...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4857.1
  Regional centers may purchase habilitation services only from providers who are accredited community nonprofit agencies that provide work activity services or supported employment services, or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4858
  (a) Each work activity program vendor shall, at a minimum, annually review the status of consumers participating in their program to determine whether these individuals...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4859
  (a) The department shall adopt regulations to establish rates for work activity program services subject to the approval of the Department of Finance. The regulations...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4860
  (a) (1) The hourly rate for supported employment services provided to consumers receiving individualized services shall be thirty dollars and eighty-two cents ($30.82). (2) Job...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4861
  The regional center may vendor new work activity or supported employment programs, after determining the capacity of the program to deliver effective services, and assessing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4862
  (a) The length of a work activity program day shall not be less than five hours, excluding the lunch period. (b) (1) Except as provided...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4863
  (a) In accordance with regulations adopted by the department, and if agreed upon by the work activity program and the regional center, hourly billing shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4864
  The department shall authorize payment for absences in work activity programs and supported employment programs that are directly consequent to a declaration of a State...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4865
  At the request of the Department of Rehabilitation, a work activity or supported employment program or both shall release accreditation and state licensing reports and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4865.1
  (a) A regional center shall continue to pay the rate in effect as of June 30, 2004, for a supported employment placement group composed of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4866
  The department may promulgate emergency regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter. If the Department of Developmental Services promulgates emergency regulations, the adoption...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4867
  Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted to mean that work activity programs or supported employment programs cannot serve consumers who are funded by agencies...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4900
  (a) The definitions contained in this section shall govern the construction of this division, unless the context requires otherwise. These definitions shall not be construed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4901
  (a) The protection and advocacy agency, for purposes of this division, shall be a private nonprofit corporation and shall meet all of the requirements of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4902
  (a) The protection and advocacy agency, in protecting and advocating for the rights of people with disabilities, pursuant to the federal mandate, may do all...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4903
  (a) The protection and advocacy agency shall have access to the records of any of the following people with disabilities: (1) Any person who is...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4904
  (a) The protection and advocacy agency, its employees, and designated agents, shall not be liable for an injury resulting from an employee's or agent's act...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4905
  (a) No employee or agent of a facility, program, or service shall subject a person with a disability to reprisal or harassment or directly or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 4906
  (a) The protection and advocacy agency may not obtain access through the use of physical force to facilities, programs, service recipients, residents, or records required...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5000
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5001
  The provisions of this part shall be construed to promote the legislative intent as follows: (a) To end the inappropriate, indefinite, and involuntary commitment of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5002
  Mentally disordered persons and persons impaired by chronic alcoholism may no longer be judicially committed. Mentally disordered persons shall receive services pursuant to this part....
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5003
  Nothing in this part shall be construed in any way as limiting the right of any person to make voluntary application at any time to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5004
  Mentally disordered persons and developmentally disabled persons shall receive protection from criminal acts equal to that provided any other resident in this state.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5004.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a legal guardian, conservator, or any other person who reasonably believes a mentally disordered or developmentally disabled person is...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5005
  Unless specifically stated, a person complained against in any petition or proceeding initiated by virtue of the provisions of this part shall not forfeit any...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5006
  The provisions of this part shall not be construed to deny treatment by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the tenets and practices of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5007
  Unless otherwise indicated, the provisions of this part shall not be construed to apply retroactively to terminate court commitments of mentally ill persons or inebriates...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5008
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern the construction of this part: (a) "Evaluation" consists of multidisciplinary professional analyses of a person's...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5008.1
  As used in this division and in Division 4 (commencing with Section 4000), Division 4.1 (commencing with Section 4400), Division 6 (commencing with Section 6000),...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5008.2
  (a) When applying the definition of mental disorder for the purposes of Articles 2 (commencing with Section 5200), 4 (commencing with Section 5250), and 5...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5009
  Persons receiving evaluation or treatment under this part shall be given a choice of physician or other professional person providing such services, in accordance with...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5010
  The agency established in this state to fulfill the requirements and assurances of Section 142 of the federal Developmental Disabilities Act of 1984 for a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5012
  The fact that a person has been taken into custody under this part may not be used in the determination of that person's eligibility for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5020.1
  A mentally ill minor, between the ages of 3 and 18, upon being considered for release from a state hospital shall have an aftercare plan...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5110
  Whenever a proceeding is held in a superior court under Article 5 (commencing with Section 5275) or Article 6 (commencing with Section 5300) of this...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5111
  Any county without a public defender is authorized to compensate the attorneys appointed for persons entitled to be represented by counsel in proceedings under this
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5113
  Except as provided in Sections 5154, 5173, 5259.3, 5267, and 5306, the facility providing treatment pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 5150), Article 1.5...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5114
  At any judicial proceeding under the provisions of this division, allegations that the person is a danger to others, or to himself, or gravely disabled...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5115
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares: (a) It is the policy of this state, as declared and established in this section and in the Lanterman...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5116
  Pursuant to the policy stated in Section 5115, a state-authorized, certified, or licensed family care home, foster home, or group home serving six or fewer...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5117
  In order to further facilitate achieving the purposes of this act and the Lanterman Mental Retardation Act of 1969, it is desirable that there be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5118
  For the purpose of conducting hearings under this part, the court in and for the county where the petition is filed may be convened at...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5119
  On and after July 1, 1972, when a person who is an employee of the State Department of Mental Health at the time of employment...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5120
  It is the policy of this state as declared and established in this act and in the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act that the care and treatment of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5150
  When any person, as a result of mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, a peace officer,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5150.05
  (a) When determining if probable cause exists to take a person into custody, or cause a person to be taken into custody, pursuant to Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5150.1
  No peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person to a designated facility for assessment under Section 5150, shall be instructed by mental...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5150.2
  In each county whenever a peace officer has transported a person to a designated facility for assessment under Section 5150, that officer shall be detained...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5150.3
  Whenever any person presented for evaluation at a facility designated under Section 5150 is found to be in need of mental health services, but is...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5150.4
  "Assessment" for the purposes of this article, means the determination of whether a person shall be evaluated and treated pursuant to Section 5150.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5151
  If the facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation admits the person, it may detain him or her for evaluation and treatment for a period not...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5152
  (a) Each person admitted to a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation under the provisions of this article shall receive an evaluation as soon as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5152.1
  The professional person in charge of the facility providing 72-hour evaluation and treatment, or his or her designee, shall notify the county mental health director...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5152.2
  Each law enforcement agency within a county shall arrange with the county mental health director a method for giving prompt notification to peace officers pursuant...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5153
  Whenever possible, officers charged with apprehension of persons pursuant to this article shall dress in plain clothes and travel in unmarked vehicles.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5154
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5152 have been met, the professional person in charge of the facility providing 72-hour treatment and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5155
  Nothing in this part shall be construed as granting authority to local entities to issue licenses supplementary to existing state and local licensing laws.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5156
  At the time a person is taken into custody for evaluation, or within a reasonable time thereafter, unless a responsible relative or the guardian or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5157
  (a) Each person, at the time he or she is first taken into custody under provisions of Section 5150, shall be provided, by the person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5170
  When any person is a danger to others, or to himself, or gravely disabled as a result of inebriation, a peace officer, member of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5170.1
  A 72-hour treatment and evaluation facility shall include one or more of the following: (1) A screening, evaluation, and referral facility which may be accomplished...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5170.3
  Such evaluation facility shall require an application in writing stating the circumstances under which the person's condition was called to the attention of the officer,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5170.5
  Any person placed in an evaluation facility has, immediately after he is taken to an evaluation facility and except where physically impossible, no later than...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5170.7
  A person who requests to be released from the facility before 72 hours have elapsed shall be released only if the psychiatrist directly responsible for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5171
  If the facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation of inebriates admits the person, it may detain him for evaluation and detoxification treatment, and such other...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5172
  Each person admitted to a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation under the provisions of this article shall receive an evaluation as soon after he...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5172.1
  Any person who is a danger to others, or to himself, or gravely disabled as a result of inebriation, may voluntarily apply for admission to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5173
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5170.7 or 5172 have been met, the professional person in charge of the facility providing 72-hour...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5174
  It is the intent of the Legislature (a) that facilities for 72-hour treatment and evaluation of inebriates be subject to state funding under Part 2...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5175
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent a facility designated as a facility for 72-hour evaluation and treatment of inebriates from also being...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5176
  This article shall apply only to those counties wherein the board of supervisors has adopted a resolution stating that suitable facilities exist within the county...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5200
  Any person alleged, as a result of mental disorder, to be a danger to others, or to himself, or to be gravely disabled, may be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5201
  Any individual may apply to the person or agency designated by the county for a petition alleging that there is in the county a person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5202
  The person or agency designated by the county shall prepare the petition and all other forms required in the proceeding, and shall be responsible for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5203
  Any individual who seeks a petition for court-ordered evaluation knowing that the person for whom the petition is sought is not, as a result of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5204
  The petition for a court-ordered evaluation shall contain the following: (a) The name and address of the petitioner and his interest in the case. (b)...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5205
  The petition shall be in substantially the following form: In the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of ____________ __________________________________________ The...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5206
  Whenever it appears, by petition pursuant to this article, to the satisfaction of a judge of a superior court that a person is, as a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5207
  The order for evaluation shall be in substantially the following form: In the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of ________...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5208
  As promptly as possible, a copy of the petition and the order for evaluation shall be personally served on the person to be evaluated and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5210
  At the time a person is taken into custody for evaluation, or within a reasonable time thereafter, unless a responsible relative or the guardian or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5211
  The report of a patient's property required by Section 5210 to be made by the person taking him into custody for evaluation shall be in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5212
  Whenever possible, persons charged with service of orders and apprehension of persons pursuant to this article shall dress in plain clothes and travel in unmarked
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5213
  (a) If, upon evaluation, the person is found to be in need of treatment because he or she is, as a result of mental disorder,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5225
  Whenever a criminal defendant who appears, as a result of chronic alcoholism or the use of narcotics or restricted dangerous drugs, to be a danger...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5226
  Such a criminal defendant must be advised of his right to immediately continue with the criminal proceeding, and it is the duty of the judge...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5226.1
  If a judge issues an order for evaluation under conditions set forth in this article, proceedings on the criminal charge then pending in the court...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5227
  The order for evaluation shall be in substantially the following form: In the ________ Court of the State of California for the County of _________...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5228
  As promptly as possible, a copy of the order for evaluation shall be personally served on the person to be evaluated and the professional person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5229
  At the time a person is ordered to undergo evaluation, or within a reasonable time thereafter, unless a responsible relative or the guardian or conservator...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5230
  If, upon evaluation, the person is found to be in need of treatment because he is, as a result of impairment by chronic alcoholism or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5250
  If a person is detained for 72 hours under the provisions of Article 1 (commencing with Section 5150), or under court order for evaluation pursuant...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5250.1
  The professional person in charge of a facility providing intensive treatment, pursuant to Section 5250 or 5270.15, or that person's designee, shall notify the county...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5251
  For a person to be certified under this article, a notice of certification shall be signed by two people. The first person shall be the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5252
  A notice of certification is required for all persons certified for intensive treatment pursuant to Section 5250 or 5270.15, and shall be in substantially the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5253
  A copy of the certification notice shall be personally delivered to the person certified, the person's attorney, or the attorney or advocate designated in Section...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5254
  The person delivering the copy of the notice of certification to the person certified shall, at the time of delivery, inform the person certified that...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5254.1
  The person delivering the copy of the notice of certification to the person certified shall, at the time of delivery, inform the person certified of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5255
  As soon after the certification as practicable, an attorney or patient advocate shall meet with the person certified to discuss the commitment process and to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5256
  When a person is certified for intensive treatment pursuant to Sections 5250 and 5270.15, a certification review hearing shall be held unless judicial review has...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5256.1
  The certification review hearing shall be conducted by either a court-appointed commissioner or a referee, or a certification review hearing officer. The certification review hearing...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5256.2
  At the certification review hearing, the evidence in support of the certification decision shall be presented by a person designated by the director of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5256.3
  The person certified shall be present at the certification review hearing unless he or she, with the assistance of his or her attorney or advocate,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5256.4
  (a) At the certification review hearing, the person certified shall have the following rights: (1) Assistance by an attorney or advocate. (2) To present evidence...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5256.5
  If at the conclusion of the certification review hearing the person conducting the hearing finds that there is not probable cause to believe that the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5256.6
  If at the conclusion of the certification review hearing the person conducting the hearing finds that there is probable cause that the person certified is,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5256.7
  The person certified shall be given oral notification of the decision at the conclusion of the certification review hearing. As soon thereafter as is practicable,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5256.8
  The requirement that there is a certification review hearing in accordance with this article shall apply only to persons certified for intensive treatment on or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5257
  (a) During the period of intensive treatment pursuant to Section 5250 or 5270.15, the person's involuntary detention shall be terminated and the person shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5258
  After the involuntary detention has begun, the total period of detention, including intervening periods of voluntary treatment, shall not exceed the total maximum period during...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5259
  Nothing in this article shall prohibit the professional person in charge of a treatment facility, or his or her designee, from permitting a person certified...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5259.1
  Any individual who is knowingly and willfully responsible for detaining a person in violation of the provisions of this article is liable to that person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5259.2
  Whenever a county designates two or more facilities to provide treatment, and the person to be treated, his or her family, conservator, or guardian expresses...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5259.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5257 have been met, the professional person in charge of the facility providing intensive treatment, his...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5260
  At the expiration of the 14-day period of intensive treatment any person who, as a result of mental disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism, during...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5261
  For a person to be certified under this article, a second notice of certification must be signed by the professional person in charge of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5262
  A second notice of certification for imminently suicidal persons is required for all involuntary 14-day intensive treatment, pursuant to this article, and shall be in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5263
  Copies of the second notice of certification for imminently suicidal persons, as set forth in Section 5262, shall be filed with the court and personally...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5264
  (a) A certification for imminently suicidal persons shall be for no more than 14 days of intensive treatment, and shall terminate only as soon as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5265
  Any individual who is knowingly and willfully responsible for detaining a person for more than 14 days in violation of the provisions of Section 5264...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5266
  Whenever a county designates two or more facilities to provide intensive treatment and the person to be treated, his family, conservator or guardian expresses a...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5267
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5264 have been met, the professional person in charge of the facility providing intensive treatment, his...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5268
  Nothing in this article shall prohibit the professional person in charge of an intensive treatment facility, or his designee, from permitting a person certified for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.10
  It is the intent of the Legislature to reduce the number of gravely disabled persons for whom conservatorship petitions are filed and who are placed...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.12
  This article shall be operative only in those counties in which the county board of supervisors, by resolution, authorizes its application and, by resolution, makes...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.15
  Upon the completion of a 14-day period of intensive treatment pursuant to Section 5250, the person may be certified for an additional period of not...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.20
  For a person to be certified under this article, a second notice of certification shall be signed by the professional person in charge of the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.25
  A second notice of certification is required for all involuntary intensive treatment, pursuant to this article, and shall be in substantially the form indicated in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.30
  Copies of the second notice of certification as set forth in Section 5270.25, shall be filed with the court and personally delivered to the person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.35
  (a) A certification pursuant to this article shall be for no more than 30 days of intensive treatment, and shall terminate only as soon as...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.40
  Any individual who is knowingly and willfully responsible for detaining a person for more than 30 days in violation of the provisions of Section 5270.35...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.45
  Whenever a county designates two or more facilities to provide intensive treatment and the person to be treated, his or her family, conservator, or guardian...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.50
  Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5270.35 have been met, the professional person in charge of the facility providing intensive treatment, his or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.55
  (a) Whenever it is contemplated that a gravely disabled person may need to be detained beyond the end of the 14-day period of intensive treatment...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5270.65
  Nothing in this article shall prohibit the professional person in charge of an intensive treatment facility, or a designee, from permitting a person certified for...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5275
  Every person detained by certification for intensive treatment shall have a right to a hearing by writ of habeas corpus for his or her release...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5276
  Judicial review shall be in the superior court for the county in which the facility providing intensive treatment is located or in the county in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5276.1
  The person requesting release may, upon advice of counsel, waive the presence at the evidentiary hearing of the physician, licensed psychologist who meets the requirements...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5276.2
  In the event that the person, or anyone acting on his or her behalf, withdraws the request for judicial review, a certification review hearing shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5277
  A finding under Section 5276 shall not be admissible in evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding without the consent of the person who was...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5278
  Individuals authorized under this part to detain a person for 72-hour treatment and evaluation pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 5150) or Article 2...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5300
  At the expiration of the 14-day period of intensive treatment, a person may be confined for further treatment pursuant to the provisions of this article...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5300.5
  For purposes of this article: (a) "Custody" shall be construed to mean involuntary detainment under the provisions of this part uninterrupted by any period of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5301
  At any time during the 14-day intensive treatment period the professional person in charge of the licensed health facility, or his or her designee, may...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5302
  At the time of filing of a petition for postcertification treatment the court shall advise the person named in the petition of his right to...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5303
  The court shall conduct the proceedings on the petition for postcertification treatment within four judicial days of the filing of the petition and in accordance...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5303.1
  For the purposes of any hearing or jury trial held pursuant to this article, the judge of the court in which such hearing or trial...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5304
  (a) The court shall remand a person named in the petition for postcertification treatment to the custody of the State Department of Mental Health or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5305
  (a) Any person committed pursuant to Section 5300 may be placed on outpatient status if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) In the...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5306
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5309 have been met, the superintendent, the professional person in charge of the hospital providing 90-day...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5306.5
  If at any time during the outpatient period, the outpatient treatment supervisor is of the opinion that the person receiving treatment requires extended inpatient treatment...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5307
  If at any time during the outpatient period the public officer, pursuant to Section 5114, is of the opinion that the person is a danger...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5308
  Upon the filing of a request for revocation of outpatient status under Section 5306.5 or 5307 and pending the court's decision on revocation, the person...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5309
  (a) Nothing in this article shall prohibit the superintendent or professional person in charge of the hospital in which the person is being involuntarily treated...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5325
  Each person involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment under provisions of this part, each person admitted as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5325.1
  Persons with mental illness have the same legal rights and responsibilities guaranteed all other persons by the Federal Constitution and laws and the Constitution and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5325.2
  Any person who is subject to detention pursuant to Section 5150, 5250, 5260, or 5270.15 shall have the right to refuse treatment with antipsychotic medication...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326
  The professional person in charge of the facility or his or her designee may, for good cause, deny a person any of the rights under...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.1
  Quarterly, each local mental health director shall furnish to the Director of Mental Health, the facility reports of the number of persons whose rights were...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.15
  (a) Quarterly, any doctor or facility which administers convulsive treatments or psychosurgery, shall report to the local mental health director, who shall transmit a copy...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.2
  To constitute voluntary informed consent, the following information shall be given to the patient in a clear and explicit manner: (a) The reason for treatment,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.3
  The State Department of Mental Health shall promulgate a standard written consent form, setting forth clearly and in detail the matters listed in Section 5326.2,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.4
  The treating physician shall then present to the patient the supplemented form specified under Section 5326.3 and orally, clearly, and in detail explain all of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.5
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "written informed consent" means that a person knowingly and intelligently, without duress or coercion, clearly and explicitly manifests consent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.55
  Persons who serve on review committees shall not otherwise be personally involved in the treatment of the patient whose case they are reviewing.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.6
  Psychosurgery, wherever administered, may be performed only if: (a) The patient gives written informed consent to the psychosurgery. (b) A responsible relative of the person's...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.7
  Subject to the provisions of subdivision (f) of Section 5325, convulsive treatment may be administered to an involuntary patient, including anyone under guardianship or conservatorship,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.75
  Convulsive treatment for all other patients including but not limited to those voluntarily admitted to a facility, or receiving the treatment in a physician's office,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.8
  Under no circumstances shall convulsive treatment be performed on a minor under 12 years of age. Persons 16 and 17 years of age shall personally...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.85
  No convulsive treatment shall be performed if the patient, whether admitted to the facility as a voluntary or involuntary patient, is deemed to be able...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.9
  (a) Any alleged or suspected violation of the rights described in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5150) shall be investigated by the local director of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.91
  In any facility in which convulsive treatment is performed on a person whether admitted to the facility as an involuntary or voluntary patient, the facility...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.95
  The Director of Mental Health shall adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including standards defining excessive use of convulsive treatment which...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5327
  Every person involuntarily detained under provisions of this part or under certification for intensive treatment or postcertification treatment in any public or private mental institution...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328
  All information and records obtained in the course of providing services under Division 4 (commencing with Section 4000), Division 4.1 (commencing with Section 4400), Division...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.01
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, all information and records made confidential under the first paragraph of Section 5328 shall also be disclosed to governmental law enforcement agencies...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.02
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, all information and records made confidential under the first paragraph of Section 5328 shall also be disclosed to the Youth Authority and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.04
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records made confidential under that section may be disclosed to a county social worker, a probation officer, or any...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.05
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records may be disclosed when an older adult client, in the opinion of a designee of a human service...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.06
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records shall be disclosed to the protection and advocacy agency established in this state to fulfill the requirements and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.1
  (a) Upon request of a member of the family of a patient, or other person designated by the patient, a public or private treatment facility...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.15
  All information and records obtained in the course of providing services under Division 5 (commencing with Section 5000), Division 6 (commencing with Section 6000), or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.2
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, movement and identification information and records regarding a patient who is committed to the department, state hospital, or any other public or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.3
  (a) When a voluntary patient would otherwise be subject to the provisions of Section 5150 of this part and disclosure is necessary for the protection...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.35
  The State Department of Mental Health shall develop policies and procedures no later than 30 days after the effective date of the Budget Act of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.4
  The physician in charge of the patient, or the professional person in charge of the facility or his or her designee, when he or she...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.5
  Information and records described in Section 5328 may be disclosed in communications relating to the prevention, investigation, or treatment of elder abuse or dependent adult...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.6
  When any disclosure of information or records is made as authorized by the provisions of Section 11878 or 11879 of the Health and Safety Code,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.7
  Signed consent forms by a patient for release of any information to which such patient is required to consent under the provisions of Sections 11878...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.8
  The State Department of Mental Health, the physician in charge of the patient, or the professional person in charge of the facility or his or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.9
  If at such time as a patient's hospital records are required by an employer to whom the patient has applied for employment, such records shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5329
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the compilation and publication of statistical data for use by government or researchers under standards set...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5330
  (a) Any person may bring an action against an individual who has willfully and knowingly released confidential information or records concerning him or her in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5331
  No person may be presumed to be incompetent because he or she has been evaluated or treated for mental disorder or chronic alcoholism, regardless of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5332
  (a) Antipsychotic medication, as defined in subdivision (l) of Section 5008, may be administered to any person subject to detention pursuant to Section 5150, 5250,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5333
  (a) Persons subject to capacity hearings pursuant to Section 5332 shall have a right to representation by an advocate or legal counsel. "Advocate," as used...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5334
  (a) Capacity hearings required by Section 5332 shall be heard within 24 hours of the filing of the petition whenever possible. However, if any party...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5336
  Any determination of a person's incapacity to refuse treatment with antipsychotic medication made pursuant to Section 5334 shall remain in effect only for the duration...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5337
  Notwithstanding Section 5257, nothing shall prohibit the filing of a petition for post certification pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 5300) for persons who...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5340
  It is the intention of the Legislature by enacting this article to provide legal procedures for the custody, evaluation, and treatment of users of controlled...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5341
  As used in this article, "controlled substances" means those substances referred to in Division 10 (commencing with Section 11000) of the Health and Safety Code.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5342
  Where other applicable sections of this part contain the phrase "a danger to himself or herself or others, or gravely disabled," such sections shall be...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5343
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any person is a danger to others or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, as a result...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5344
  Any expenditure for the custody, evaluation, treatment, or other procedures for services rendered a person pursuant to this article shall be considered an expenditure made...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.15
  (a) Quarterly, any doctor or facility which administers convulsive treatments or psychosurgery, shall report to the local mental health director, who shall transmit a copy...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.2
  To constitute voluntary informed consent, the following information shall be given to the patient in a clear and explicit manner: (a) The reason for treatment,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.3
  The State Department of Mental Health shall promulgate a standard written consent form, setting forth clearly and in detail the matters listed in Section 5326.2,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.4
  The treating physician shall then present to the patient the supplemented form specified under Section 5326.3 and orally, clearly, and in detail explain all of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.5
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "written informed consent" means that a person knowingly and intelligently, without duress or coercion, clearly and explicitly manifests consent...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.55
  Persons who serve on review committees shall not otherwise be personally involved in the treatment of the patient whose case they are reviewing.
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.6
  Psychosurgery, wherever administered, may be performed only if: (a) The patient gives written informed consent to the psychosurgery. (b) A responsible relative of the person's...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.7
  Subject to the provisions of subdivision (f) of Section 5325, convulsive treatment may be administered to an involuntary patient, including anyone under guardianship or conservatorship,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.75
  Convulsive treatment for all other patients including but not limited to those voluntarily admitted to a facility, or receiving the treatment in a physician's office,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.8
  Under no circumstances shall convulsive treatment be performed on a minor under 12 years of age. Persons 16 and 17 years of age shall personally...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.85
  No convulsive treatment shall be performed if the patient, whether admitted to the facility as a voluntary or involuntary patient, is deemed to be able...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.9
  (a) Any alleged or suspected violation of the rights described in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5150) shall be investigated by the local director of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.91
  In any facility in which convulsive treatment is performed on a person whether admitted to the facility as an involuntary or voluntary patient, the facility...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5326.95
  The Director of Mental Health shall adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including standards defining excessive use of convulsive treatment which...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5327
  Every person involuntarily detained under provisions of this part or under certification for intensive treatment or postcertification treatment in any public or private mental institution...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328
  All information and records obtained in the course of providing services under Division 4 (commencing with Section 4000), Division 4.1 (commencing with Section 4400), Division...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.01
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, all information and records made confidential under the first paragraph of Section 5328 shall also be disclosed to governmental law enforcement agencies...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.02
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, all information and records made confidential under the first paragraph of Section 5328 shall also be disclosed to the Youth Authority and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.04
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records made confidential under that section may be disclosed to a county social worker, a probation officer, or any...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.05
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records may be disclosed when an older adult client, in the opinion of a designee of a human service...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.06
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records shall be disclosed to the protection and advocacy agency established in this state to fulfill the requirements and...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.1
  (a) Upon request of a member of the family of a patient, or other person designated by the patient, a public or private treatment facility...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.15
  All information and records obtained in the course of providing services under Division 5 (commencing with Section 5000), Division 6 (commencing with Section 6000), or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.2
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, movement and identification information and records regarding a patient who is committed to the department, state hospital, or any other public or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.3
  (a) When a voluntary patient would otherwise be subject to the provisions of Section 5150 of this part and disclosure is necessary for the protection...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.35
  The State Department of Mental Health shall develop policies and procedures no later than 30 days after the effective date of the Budget Act of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.4
  The physician in charge of the patient, or the professional person in charge of the facility or his or her designee, when he or she...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.5
  Information and records described in Section 5328 may be disclosed in communications relating to the prevention, investigation, or treatment of elder abuse or dependent adult...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.6
  When any disclosure of information or records is made as authorized by the provisions of Section 11878 or 11879 of the Health and Safety Code,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.7
  Signed consent forms by a patient for release of any information to which such patient is required to consent under the provisions of Sections 11878...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.8
  The State Department of Mental Health, the physician in charge of the patient, or the professional person in charge of the facility or his or...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5328.9
  If at such time as a patient's hospital records are required by an employer to whom the patient has applied for employment, such records shall...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5329
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the compilation and publication of statistical data for use by government or researchers under standards set...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5330
  (a) Any person may bring an action against an individual who has willfully and knowingly released confidential information or records concerning him or her in...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5331
  No person may be presumed to be incompetent because he or she has been evaluated or treated for mental disorder or chronic alcoholism, regardless of...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5332
  (a) Antipsychotic medication, as defined in subdivision (l) of Section 5008, may be administered to any person subject to detention pursuant to Section 5150, 5250,...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5333
  (a) Persons subject to capacity hearings pursuant to Section 5332 shall have a right to representation by an advocate or legal counsel. "Advocate," as used...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5334
  (a) Capacity hearings required by Section 5332 shall be heard within 24 hours of the filing of the petition whenever possible. However, if any party...
• California Welfare And Institutions Code Section 5336
  Any determination of a person's incapacity to refuse treatment with antipsychotic medication made pursuant to Section 5334 shall remain in e