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2022 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC
DIVISION 5 - COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
PART 1 - THE LANTERMAN-PETRIS-SHORT ACT
CHAPTER 2 - Involuntary Treatment
ARTICLE 8 - Community Controlled Substances Treatment Services
Section 5342.

Universal Citation:
CA Welf & Inst Code § 5342 (2022)
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5342. Where other applicable sections of this part contain the phrase “a danger to himself or herself or others, or gravely disabled,” such sections shall be deemed to refer to the condition of danger to self or others or grave disability as a result of the use of controlled substances, rather than by mental disorder, as such.

(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1635, Sec. 102.)

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