At any judicial proceeding under the provisions of this division, allegations that the person is a danger to others, or to himself, or gravely disabled as a result of mental disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism, shall be presented by the district attorney for the county, unless the board of supervisors, by ordinance or resolution, delegates such duty to the county counsel.
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 5114
General Provisions
Known as the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act
The act spans §§ 5000–5550 (263 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 15 Cal. 3d 230 - Safer v. Superior Court (1975)
Most recently applied in 227 Cal. Rptr. 3d 626 - People v. Lee C. (In re Estate of Lee C.) (December 2017)
Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1627.
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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.