Chapter 6 - STERILIZATION

Section 1950 - Legislative declaration
Section 1951 - Persons not to be sterilized; definitions; facilitator or interpreter appointed
Section 1952 - Petition for appointment of limited conservator authorized to consent to sterilization
Section 1953 - Service of notice of hearing and copy of petition
Section 1954 - Appointment of public defender or private counsel to represent individual for whom sterilization proposed
Section 1954.5 - Appointment of facilitator
Section 1955 - Investigation and report by appropriate regional center; medical examination of person proposed to be sterilized
Section 1956 - Presence of person to whom petition applies at hearing
Section 1957 - Views of individual for whom sterilization proposed
Section 1958 - Conservator authorized to consent to sterilization
Section 1959 - Person vulnerable to unlawful sexual conduct by others not considered
Section 1960 - Person already has conservator; conservator capable of adequately representing and safeguarding interests of conservatee
Section 1961 - Hysterectomy or castration
Section 1962 - Order accompanied by statement of decision; appeal taken by person proposed to be sterilized
Section 1963 - Order for payment of court costs and fees
Section 1964 - Expiration of order and termination of conservatorship
Section 1965 - Stay of order pending final determination on appeal
Section 1966 - Filing subsequent petition after determination that authorization not be given
Section 1967 - Immunity
Section 1968 - Medical treatment or surgery in which sterilization unavoidable
Section 1969 - Right of person with developmental disability to give consent not infringed