California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 3 - Officers and Employees

• Section 4300.
  As used in this article, “officers” of a state hospital means:(a) Clinical director.(b) Hospital administrator.(c) Hospital director.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 962.)
• Section 4301.
  (a) The Director of State Hospitals shall appoint and define the duties, subject to the laws governing civil service, of the clinical director and the hospital...
• Section 4302.
  The Director of State Hospitals shall have the final authority for determining all other employee needs after consideration of program requests from the various hospitals.(Amended...
• 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...
• Section 4304.
  The primary purpose of a state hospital is the medical and nursing care of patients with mental health disorders. The efforts and direction of the...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• Section 4308.
  (a) If a vacancy occurs in a hospital under the jurisdiction of the Director of State Hospitals, he or she shall appoint, as provided in Section...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• Section 4313.5.
  (a) Designated investigators of state hospitals shall request a sexual assault forensic medical examination for any resident of a state hospital who is a victim or...
• Section 4314.
  The Director of State Hospitals may set aside and designate any space on the grounds of any of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 4319.
  To ensure a continuous level of competency for all state hospital treatment personnel under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals, the department...
• Section 4320.
  To ensure an adequate supply of licensed psychiatric technicians for state hospitals, the State Department of State Hospitals, to the extent necessary, shall establish in...

Last modified: October 22, 2018