2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 17a - Social and Human Services and Resources
Chapter 319i - Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities
Section 17a-474 - (Formerly Sec. 17-229a). Commitment to state hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities or to child care facility. Procedures for revoking or modifying commitment.

Whenever any person has been committed by any court to any state hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities, or child care facility, the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Commissioner of Children and Families, as appropriate, or any person interested may, at any time thereafter, make application to the court making the order of commitment for a revocation or modification of such order or of the terms and conditions thereof. Such court shall thereupon order such notice of the time and place of hearing thereon as it deems advisable, shall hear and determine such application and may thereupon revoke, modify or affirm such order, and the action of the court thereon shall be subject to appeal as in other cases. Any individual receiving care in a hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities may be transferred to any other state hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities by order of the court making the original commitment of such individual, upon application in writing by the superintendent of the hospital from which such transfer is to be made. Such court shall transmit copies of such order forthwith to the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services or the Commissioner of Children and Families, as appropriate, and the hospital from which transfer is made shall pay all costs of such order and transfer. Said commissioners may at any time cause an individual receiving care in a state hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities to be removed to another state hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities, as the circumstances or necessities of the case may require.

(1949 Rev., S. 2666; 1955, S. 1503d; 1959, P.A. 324; 1967, P.A. 656, S. 14; P.A. 75-603, S. 10, 15; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 48, 53, 58; P.A. 09-145, S. 3.)

History: 1959 act substituted mental health commissioner for welfare commissioner; Sec. 17-15 transferred to Sec. 17-229a in 1966; 1967 act added “or commissioner of health”; P.A. 75-603 included commissioner of children and youth services in provisions; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of health with commissioner of health services, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 17-229a transferred to Sec. 17a-474 in 1991; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-381 substituted commissioner and department of public health and addiction services for commissioner and department of health services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced variants of term “mental illness” with “psychiatric disabilities” and replaced Mental Health Commissioner with Mental Health and Addiction Services Commissioner, effective July 1, 1995 (Revisor’s note: References to “Mental Health and Addiction Services Commissioner” were replaced editorially by the Revisors with “Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services” for consistency with customary statutory usage); P.A. 09-145 replaced “other humane institution” with “child care facility”, replaced references to “inmate” and “institution” with “individual” and “hospital” and made technical changes.

See Sec. 17a-451 re duties of Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

See Sec. 17a-510 re procedure for release or transfer of patient in a hospital for the mentally ill.

Cited. 173 C. 473.