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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
§ 5152. Commitment by courts.

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16 DE Code § 5152 (2025)
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§ 5152. Commitment by courts.

(a) All persons with criminally mental conditions who are adults shall be admitted to the department for persons with criminally mental conditions at the Delaware Psychiatric Center for evaluation and/or treatment when committed by any court of this State having jurisdiction over the persons committed.

(b) All criminally inclined juveniles amenable to the processes of Family Court shall be committed to treatment programs for criminally inclined juveniles established by the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families when committed by any court of this State having jurisdiction over the persons committed.

(c) Jurisdiction to order and review commitments under this subchapter is conferred upon any court:

(1) Which presides over any active matter in which the person with a criminally mental condition is a defendant or respondent; or

(2) Which entered the most recent sentencing order regarding the person with a criminally mental condition.

Code 1935, c. 76;  46 Del. Laws, c. 190, § 2;  16 Del. C. 1953, § 5152;  49 Del. Laws, c. 57, § 1;  66 Del. Laws, c. 424, § 10;  70 Del. Laws, c. 550, § 1;  76 Del. Laws, c. 322, §§ 9-12;  78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §§ 192-196; 
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