2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 17a - Social and Human Services and Resources
Chapter 319i - Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities
Section 17a-616 - (Formerly Sec. 17-259). Compact administrators.

Pursuant to said compact, the Governor is authorized to designate a compact administrator for mentally ill adults, a compact administrator for mentally ill children and youths under the age of eighteen and a compact administrator for the mentally deficient who, acting jointly with like officers of other party states, shall have power to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms of the compact. The compact administrators shall serve subject to the pleasure of the Governor. The compact administrators are directed to cooperate with all departments, agencies and officers of the government of this state and its subdivisions in facilitating the proper administration of the compact or of any supplementary agreement or agreements entered into by this state thereunder, and the compact administrators are hereby directed to consult with the immediate family of any proposed transferee and, in the case of a person proposed to be transferred without such person’s consent or the consent of such person’s guardian from an institution in this state to an institution in another party state, to take no final action without approval of the Superior Court in the state of Connecticut. On the admission of any such transferee to an institution in this state, the procedure outlined in section 17b-136 shall be followed.

(November, 1955, S. N187; 1957, P.A. 320; P.A. 76-31, S. 1, 2; 76-436, S. 368, 681; P.A. 84-25, S. 1, 2; P.A. 06-196, S. 129.)

History: P.A. 76-31 established separate compact administrators for adults and for children and youths under eighteen, previously there was one administrator for all mentally ill persons; P.A. 76-436 replaced court of common pleas with superior court, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 84-25 limited requirement of approval of superior court to person proposed to be transferred without his consent or consent of his guardian; Sec. 17-259 transferred to Sec. 17a-616 in 1991; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes, effective June 7, 2006.