1998 Minnesota Code
Chapters 245 - 267 Public Welfare and Related Activities
Chapter 245 Department of Human Services
Section 245.0312 Designating special units and regional centers.
245.0312 Designating special units and regional centers.
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, during the biennium, the commissioner of human services, upon the approval of the governor after consulting with the legislative advisory commission, may designate portions of hospitals for the mentally ill under the commissioner's control as special care units for mentally retarded or inebriate persons, or as nursing homes for persons over the age of 65, and may designate portions of the hospitals designated in Minnesota Statutes 1969, section 252.025, subdivision 1, as special care units for mentally ill or inebriate persons, and may plan to develop all hospitals for mentally ill, mentally retarded, or inebriate persons under the commissioner's control as multipurpose regional centers for programs related to all of the said problems.
If approved by the governor, the commissioner may rename the state hospital as a state regional center and appoint the hospital administrator as administrator of the center, in accordance with section 246.0251.
The directors of the separate program units of regional centers shall be responsible directly to the commissioner at the discretion of the commissioner.
HIST: 1971 c 961 s 19; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986 c 444
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