This division shall be known and may be cited as the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act.
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 4500
Title and Intent
Known as the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act
The act spans §§ 4500–4885 (423 sections).
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case 50 Cal. 4th 1206 - North Bay Regional Center v. Maldonado (2010)
Most recently applied in Cuevas v. Contra Costa County (April 2017)
Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.
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.
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