2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 17a - Social and Human Services and Resources
Chapter 319i - Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities
Section 17a-573 - (Formerly Sec. 17-254). When director may institute commitment proceedings.
Within two months prior to the expiration of the maximum term of confinement authorized for any patient under section 17a-567, the director of the division may, upon the recommendation of the board, initiate proceedings under section 17a-497 or 17a-520 for the commitment or further commitment, as the case may be, of the patient.
(1957, P.A. 650, S. 17; 1961, P.A. 249; P.A. 73-245, S. 13; P.A. 82-472, S. 153, 183; P.A. 95-257, S. 20, 58.)
History: 1961 act changed time limit from within six months prior to expiration of term to within two months prior and substituted director of center for welfare commissioner; P.A. 73-245 replaced “center”, i.e. security treatment center, with “institute”, i.e. Whiting Forensic Institute; P.A. 82-472 removed the reference to patients’ confinement under the terms of Sec. 17-246; Sec. 17-254 transferred to Sec. 17a-573 in 1991; P.A. 95-257 substituted “division” for “institute”, effective July 1, 1995.
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