2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 17a - Social and Human Services and Resources
Chapter 319i - Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities
Section 17a-509 - (Formerly Sec. 17-191). Placement of persons with psychiatric disabilities in residential care homes or chronic and convalescent hospitals.

The superintendent or director of any state-operated facility, as defined in subsection (c) of section 17a-458, may place any person with psychiatric disabilities committed to such state-operated facility, if such person is no longer in need of active psychiatric treatment in such state-operated facility, in a residential care home licensed by the Department of Public Health in accordance with sections 19a-490 to 19a-503, inclusive, or a chronic and convalescent hospital, provided such person shall, despite such transfer, remain subject to the medical supervision of the superintendent or director of such state-operated facility, and such superintendent or director may, if medically indicated, order and provide for the return of any such patient to such state-operated facility, subject to any limitations of the term of commitment contained in the order of commitment under which such patient was committed to such state-operated facility. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person who is under a term of imprisonment or who has not met the requirements of the condition of release set to provide the reasonable assurance of such person’s appearance in court.

(1955, S. 1512d; 1957, P.A. 79; 1959, P.A. 189; P.A. 75-528, S. 2, 15; P.A. 76-190, S. 6, 12; P.A. 79-610, S. 28; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 48, 58; P.A. 00-196, S. 52; P.A. 09-145, S. 8.)

History: 1959 act deleted former Subsec. (b) which required notifying welfare commissioner of transfer or return; P.A. 75-528 included directors, replaced state hospitals for the mentally ill with state-operated facilities and deleted Subsec. (b) re licensing of private boarding homes and authorization of chronic and convalescent hospitals; P.A. 76-190 excluded from provisions person imprisoned or not meeting release conditions which provide reasonable assurance of their appearance in court; P.A. 79-610 made department of health services rather than department of mental health licensing authority for private boarding homes for mental patients and replaced reference to Sec. 17-227 with references to Secs. 19-576 to 19-586; Sec. 17-191 transferred to Sec. 17a-509 in 1991; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health and substituted “person with psychiatric disabilities” for “mentally ill person”, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 00-196 made a technical change; P.A. 09-145 replaced “private boarding home for mental patients” with “residential care home”.