California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 13 - Adult Protective Services

  • Section 15750.
    The definitions contained in Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 15600) shall govern the construction of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 54, Sec. 19. Effective...
  • Section 15751.
    Each county welfare department shall establish and support a system of protective services to elderly and dependent adults who may be subjected to neglect, abuse,...
  • Section 15752.
    Each county shall establish and maintain a specialized entity within the county welfare department which shall have lead responsibility for the operation of the adult...
  • Section 15753.
    The department shall, to the extent funding for this purpose remains with the department, establish one full-time position that reports to the director to assist...
  • Section 15754.
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law governing the disclosure of information and records, persons who are trained and qualified to serve on multidisciplinary personnel teams may...
  • Section 15755.
    A law enforcement agency may seek a search warrant from a magistrate pursuant to the procedures set forth in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1523)...
  • Section 15760.
    Adult protective services shall include investigations, needs assessments, remedial and preventive social work activities; the necessary tangible resources such as food, transportation, emergency shelter, and...
  • Section 15762.
    When an allegation of abuse of an elder or dependent adult is reported to a county designated adult protective service agency and an agency social...
  • Section 15763.
    (a) Each county shall establish an emergency response adult protective services program that shall provide in-person response, 24 hours per day, seven days per week, to...
  • Section 15764.
    Notwithstanding Section 10101.1, a county shall have no share of any nonfederal expenditures above the required expenditures for this program in the 1996–97 fiscal year,...
  • Section 15765.
    This chapter shall become operative on May 1, 1999. Commencing with the 1999–2000 fiscal year, Sections 15760 to 15764, inclusive, shall be implemented only to...
  • Section 15766.
    The investigation of allegations of elder and dependent adult abuse pursuant to this chapter, and the case management of elder and dependent adult abuse cases...

Last modified: October 22, 2018