California Code of Regulations
Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services
Division 1 - Department of Mental Health
Chapter 16 - State Hospital Operations
Article 7 - Admissions
Section 4710 - Date of Admission of Individuals Found Incompetent to Stand Trial
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 52, December 27, 2024
(a) In scheduling the admission of individuals judicially committed to the Department of State Hospitals as Incompetent to Stand Trial, the Department shall admit each individual to a state hospital according to the date the court committed the individual to the Department. Actual date of admission may change upon consideration of any of the following factors:
(b) If an individual found Incompetent to Stand Trial is judicially committed to the Department of State Hospitals and placed in a jail-based competency program and that program determines that it cannot appropriately treat the individual, the individual shall be admitted to a state hospital according to the date the court committed the individual to the Department.
(c) In cases wherein an individual has been treated by the Department of State Hospitals, found competent, and returned to the committing county, and wherein the individual's competency is challenged by any party and the court subsequently commits the individual to the Department of State Hospitals as Incompetent to Stand Trial, the Department shall admit the individual according to the most recent date the court committed the individual to the Department.
1. New section filed 11-22-2017; operative 11-22-2017 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2017, No. 47). For prior history, see Register 2017, No. 42.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 4005.1 and 4027, Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Sections 1370, 1370.01 and 1372, Penal Code; Sections 7228 and 7230, Welfare and Institutions Code; People v. Rells (2000) 22 Cal.4th 860; and People v. Mixon (1990) 225 Cal.App.3d 1471.