2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 17b-136. (Formerly Sec. 17-293). Interstate transportation. Admission to state mental hospital.
Sec. 17b-136. (Formerly Sec. 17-293). Interstate transportation. Admission to
state mental hospital. (a) The Commissioner of Social Services is authorized to enter
into reciprocal agreements with other states regarding the interstate transportation of
poor and indigent persons and to arrange with the selectmen and institutional authorities
for the acceptance and support of persons receiving public aid in other states in accordance with the terms of such reciprocal agreements.
(1949 Rev., S. 2604; 1949, S. 1436d; 1949, 1955, S. 1438d; 1949, June, 1955, S. 1439d; 1959, P.A. 215; 1967, P.A. 314, S. 7; P.A. 75-420, S. 4, 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 70, 608, 610; P.A. 81-93, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87.)
History: 1959 act provided that mental health commissioner rather than welfare commissioner institute commitment proceedings and deleted requirement they be recommended by person in charge of state hospital; 1967 act substituted commissioner of finance and control for welfare commissioner as the collecting agent in Subsec. (b); P.A. 75-420 generally replaced welfare commissioner with commissioner of social services; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of finance and control with commissioner of administrative services and, effective January 1, 1979, replaced commissioner of social services with commissioner of income maintenance; P.A. 81-93 amended Subsec. (b) to conform the process for the commitment of mentally ill persons transported from another state to the process provided in Sec. 17-183 for the commitment of persons under an emergency certificate, except that the required certificate may be signed by a physician in the sending state, and transferred responsibility for the initiation of commitment proceedings from the commissioner of mental health to the superintendent or director of the facility; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department of income maintenance, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17-293 transferred to Sec. 17b-136 in 1995.
Annotation to former section 17-293:
Cited. 149 C. 223, 226.
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