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CALIFORNIA WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODEDivision 7 - MENTAL INSTITUTIONSChapter 2 - STATE HOSPITALS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED
Article 7 - LEAVE OF ABSENCE, DISCHARGE, AND RESTORATION TO CAPACITY OF PERSONS OTHER THAN THE MENTALLY DISORDERED CRIMINALS
Section 7359 - Discharge of judicially committed patient determined not recovered but not detriment to public welfare or injurious to patient

Cal. Welf. and Inst. Code § 7359

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Section 7359 - Discharge of judicially committed patient determined not recovered but not detriment to public welfare or injurious to patient

The superintendent of a state hospital, on filing his or her written certificate with the Director of State Hospitals, may discharge as improved, or may discharge as unimproved, as the case may be, any judicially committed patient who is not recovered, but whose discharge, in the judgment of the superintendent, will not be detrimental to the public welfare, or injurious to the patient.

Ca. Welf. and Inst. Code § 7359

Amended by Stats 2012 ch 24 (AB 1470),s 197, eff. 6/27/2012.