The department has jurisdiction over the following institutions:
Fairview State Hospital.
Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital.
Porterville State Hospital.
Sonoma State Hospital.
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 4440
Jurisdiction and General Government
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 83 Cal. App. 4th 739 - Black v. Department of Mental Health (2000)
Most recently applied in In re Williams (August 2014)
Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 82
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.