California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

• Section 5000.
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1667.)
• Section 5001.
  The provisions of this part and Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 5585) shall be construed to promote the legislative intent as follows:(a) To end the inappropriate,...
• Section 5002.
  (a) Persons with mental health disorders and persons impaired by chronic alcoholism may no longer be judicially committed.(b) Persons with mental health disorders shall receive services pursuant...
• 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...
• Section 5004.
  Persons with mental health disorders and persons with developmental disabilities shall receive protection from criminal acts equal to that provided any other resident in this...
• Section 5004.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a legal guardian, conservator, or other person who reasonably believes a person with a mental health disorder or developmental disability is...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 medical, psychological,...
• 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),...
• 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 (commencing...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 5013.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that referrals between facilities, providers, and other organizations shall be facilitated by the sharing of information and records...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 Developmental Disabilities...
• Section 5116.
  (a) 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 5121.
  The county behavioral health director may develop procedures for the county’s designation and training of professionals who will be designated to perform functions under Section...

Last modified: October 22, 2018