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Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 5696.2

Regional Facilities for Wards with Serious Emotional Disturbance

Known as the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act

The act spans §§ 5600–5772 (134 sections).

Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 89, Sec. 170

No ward shall be admitted to any regional facility described in this chapter who meets any of the following criteria:

(a) The ward has a primary substance abuse problem.

(b) The ward has a primary developmental disability.

(c) The ward requires an acute psychiatric hospital setting.

(d) The ward can benefit from or requires a level of treatment or confinement not provided at the facility.

(e) The ward suffers from a medical condition which requires ongoing nursing and medical care, beyond the level that the program can provide.

(f) The ward is under conservatorship established pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 5350) of this part.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.