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2016 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC
DIVISION 7 - MENTAL INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER 2 - State Hospitals for the Mentally Disordered
ARTICLE 7 - Leave of Absence, Discharge, and Restoration to Capacity of Persons Other Than the Mentally Disordered Criminals
Section 7357.

CA Welf & Inst Code § 7357 (2016) What's This?

7357. The superintendent of a state hospital, on filing his or her written certificate with the Director of State Hospitals, may discharge a patient who, in his or her judgment, has recovered or did not, at time of admission, have a mental health disorder.

(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 130. Effective January 1, 2015.)

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