2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 28 - Mental Health
RS 28:22.5 - Community mental health centers
§22.5. Community mental health centers
The community mental health centers located in Lafayette, Pineville, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Crowley, Shreveport, and Monroe for the care, treatment, and rehabilitation at the community level of persons with mental illness and persons who are mentally defective as defined in R.S. 28:2 are created and continued as units of the department under its supervision and administration. Guidance centers heretofore established may be converted to mental health centers by the department or two or more of them may be merged and consolidated into a mental health center by the department.
Added by Acts 1962, No. 160, §1. Amended by Acts 1964, No. 294, §1; Acts 1974, No. 294, §1; Acts 1978, No. 786, §3, eff. July 17, 1978; Acts 2014, No. 811, §14, eff. June 23, 2014.
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