California Probate Code CHAPTER 6 - Sterilization

• Section 1950.
  The Legislature recognizes that the right to exercise choice over matters of procreation is fundamental and may not be denied to an individual on the...
• Section 1951.
  (a) No person who has the ability to consent to his or her sterilization shall be sterilized pursuant to this chapter.(b) For the purposes of this chapter,...
• Section 1952.
  The conservator of an adult, or any person authorized to file a petition for the appointment of a conservator under paragraphs (2) to (5), inclusive,...
• Section 1953.
  At least 90 days before the hearing on the petition under this chapter, notice of the time and place of the hearing and a copy...
• Section 1954.
  In any proceeding under this chapter, if the person named in the petition for court authorization to consent to sterilization has not retained legal counsel...
• Section 1954.5.
  (a) The court shall appoint a facilitator for the person named in the petition, who shall assist the person named in the petition to do all...
• Section 1955.
  (a) The court shall request the director of the appropriate regional center for the developmentally disabled to coordinate an investigation and prepare and file a written...
• Section 1956.
  The person to whom the petition applies shall be present at the hearing except for reason of medical inability. Emotional or psychological instability is not...
• Section 1957.
  To the greatest extent possible, the court shall elicit and take into account the views of the individual for whom sterilization is proposed in determining...
• Section 1958.
  The court may authorize the conservator of a person proposed to be sterilized to consent to the sterilization of that person only if the court...
• Section 1959.
  The fact that, due to the nature or severity of his or her disability, a person for whom an authorization to consent to sterilization is...
• Section 1960.
  If the person named in the petition already has a conservator, the court may authorize that person to consent to sterilization or may appoint another...
• Section 1961.
  A sterilization procedure authorized under this chapter shall not include hysterectomy or castration. However, if the report prepared under Section 1955 indicates that hysterectomy or...
• Section 1962.
  (a) Any court order granting a petition under this chapter shall be accompanied by a written statement of decision pursuant to Section 632 of the Code...
• Section 1963.
  (a) At the conclusion of the hearing, the court, after inquiring into financial ability, may make an order based upon their ability that any one or...
• Section 1964.
  An order of the court authorizing a conservator to consent to sterilization which is upheld on appeal automatically expires in one year from the final...
• Section 1965.
  Any court order made pursuant to this chapter granting authority to consent to sterilization shall be stayed pending a final determination on appeal.(Enacted by Stats....
• Section 1966.
  After the filing of a first petition for sterilization pursuant to this chapter and a determination by the court that any one or more of...
• Section 1967.
  (a) The sterilization of a person in accordance with this chapter does not render the petitioner or any person participating in the conservatorship proceedings or sterilization...
• Section 1968.
  This chapter does not prohibit medical treatment or surgery required for other medical reasons and in which sterilization is an unavoidable or medically probable consequence,...
• Section 1969.
  Nothing in this chapter shall infringe on the right of persons with developmental disabilities who are capable of giving consent to sterilization to give that...

Last modified: October 22, 2018