California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees

• Section 4480.
  As used in this article, “officers” of a state hospital means:(a) Clinical director.(b) Hospital administrator.(c) Hospital director.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)
• Section 4481.
  (a) The Director of Developmental Services shall appoint and define the duties, subject to the laws governing civil service, of the clinical director and the hospital...
• Section 4482.
  The Director of the State Department of Developmental Services shall have the final authority for determining all other employee needs after consideration of program requests...
• Section 4483.
  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...
• Section 4484.
  The primary purpose of a state hospital is the medical and nursing care of patients who are developmentally disabled. The efforts and direction of the...
• Section 4485.
  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...
• Section 4486.
  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,...
• Section 4487.
  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...
• Section 4488.
  As often as a vacancy occurs in a hospital under the jurisdiction of the Director of Developmental Services, he shall appoint, as provided in Section...
• Section 4489.
  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...
• Section 4491.
  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...
• Section 4492.
  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,...
• Section 4493.
  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...
• Section 4494.
  The Director of Developmental Services may set aside and designate any space on the grounds of any of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the...
• Section 4495.
  Wherever the term “superintendent” appears, the term shall be deemed to mean clinical director, except in Sections 4450, 4466, 4467, 4469, 7281, and 7289, where...
• Section 4496.
  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...
• Section 4497.
  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...
• Section 4498.
  To assure a continuous level of competency for all state hospital treatment personnel under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services, the department...
• Section 4499.
  To assure an adequate supply of licensed psychiatric technicians for state hospitals for the developmentally disabled, the State Department of Developmental Services, to the extent...

Last modified: October 22, 2018