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2025 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
Chapter 51. THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES
Subchapter IV. Persons With Criminally Mental Conditions
§ 5151. Establishment of department for persons with criminally mental conditions.
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§ 5151. Establishment of department for persons with criminally mental conditions.
The Department shall establish at the Delaware Psychiatric Center a department for persons with criminally mental conditions who are adults regardless of their mental capacity. The term “persons with criminally mental conditions” as used herein shall be defined as any incarcerated individual, charged with or convicted of any criminal offense under this Code who also meets the definition set forth at § 5001(7) of this title [repealed]. The department shall be established on the present grounds of the Psychiatric Center.
Code 1935, c. 76; 46 Del. Laws, c. 190, § 1; 16 Del. C. 1953, § 5151; 49 Del. Laws, c. 57, § 1; 54 Del. Laws, c. 279, § 3; 55 Del. Laws, c. 212; 70 Del. Laws, c. 550, § 1; 76 Del. Laws, c. 322, §§ 7, 8; 78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §§ 189-191; 79 Del. Laws, c. 442, § 1;
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