California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 4 - Certification for Intensive Treatment

• 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...
• 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...
• Section 5251.
  (a) For a person to be certified under this article, a notice of certification shall be signed by two people. (1) The first person shall be the...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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 on his or her own...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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 released...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018