California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 3 - State Hospitals for the Developmentally Disabled

• Section 7500.
  There are established in the state the following state hospitals for the care and treatment of persons with developmental disabilities:(a) Sonoma State Hospital, in Sonoma County.(b) Lanterman...
• Section 7501.
  (a) The Department of General Services, in cooperation with the State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of State Hospitals, may sell or lease...
• Section 7501.5.
  (a) The Department of General Services, in cooperation with the State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of State Hospitals, may lease property within...
• Section 7502.
  The state institution, the site for which was provided for by an appropriation made by Chapter 28 of the 55th (Fourth Extraordinary Session) Session of...
• Section 7502.5.
  (a) An individual may be admitted to the secure treatment facility at Porterville Developmental Center, as provided in paragraphs (1) and (3) of subdivision (a) of...
• Section 7503.
  The object of each hospital is such care, treatment, habilitation, training, and education of the persons committed thereto as will render them more comfortable and...
• Section 7504.
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter the provisions on state institutions in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 5...
• Section 7505.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the State Department of Developmental Services shall not admit anyone to a developmental center unless the person has been determined eligible...
• Section 7506.
  The primary purpose of each hospital for the developmentally disabled shall be the care, treatment and habilitation of those patients found suitable and duly admitted.(Amended...
• Section 7507.
  Subject to the provisions of Sections 6509 and 7505, each developmental center shall admit persons duly committed or transferred thereto in accordance with law.(Amended by...
• Section 7509.
  The State Department of State Hospitals and the State Department of Developmental Services shall prescribe and publish instructions and forms, in relation to the commitment...
• Section 7513.
  Each developmentally disabled person and his or her estate shall pay the State Department of Developmental Services for the cost of such person’s care and...
• Section 7513.1.
  The charge for the care and treatment of all developmentally disabled persons at state hospitals for the developmentally disabled for whom there is liability to...
• Section 7513.2.
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall collect all the costs and charges mentioned in Section 7513 and may take such action as is necessary...
• Section 7514.
  The State Department of Developmental Services may transfer any patient of a state hospital for the developmentally disabled to another state hospital for the developmentally...
• Section 7515.
  The medical director may, with the approval of the department having jurisdiction, cause the peremptory discharge of any person who has been a patient for...
• Section 7516.
  Nothing in this division contained interferes with or affects the status of such patients as are now in the Sonoma State Hospital under terms of...
• Section 7518.
  In accordance with this section, the medical director of a state hospital with programs for developmentally disabled patients, as defined in Section 4512, may give...

Last modified: October 22, 2018