GENERAL ADMINISTRATION, POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE DEPARTMENT
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Sanchez v. Johnson (2005)
Most recently applied in Inland Counties Regional Center, Inc. v. Superior Court of Riverside County (April 2017)
Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Unless otherwise indicated in this code, the State Department of Developmental Services has jurisdiction over the execution of the laws relating to the care, custody, and treatment of developmentally disabled persons, as provided in this code.
As used in this division, “establishment” and “institutions” include every hospital, sanitarium, boarding home, or other place receiving or caring for developmentally disabled persons.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.