Wash. Rev. Code § 72.23.200

Current through Chapter 376 of the 2024 Regular Session

Section 72.23.200 - Persons under eighteen-Confinement in adult wards

No mentally ill person under the age of sixteen years shall be regularly confined in any ward in any state hospital which ward is designed and operated for the care of the mentally ill eighteen years of age or over. No person of the ages of sixteen and seventeen shall be placed in any such ward, when in the opinion of the superintendent such placement would be detrimental to the mental condition of such a person or would impede his or her recovery or treatment.

RCW 72.23.200

Amended by 2012 c 117,§ 468, eff. 6/7/2012.

1971 ex.s. c 292 § 52; 1959 c 28 § 72.23.200. Prior: 1951 c 139 § 46; 1949 c 198 § 17; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 6953-17. Formerly RCW 71.02.550.

Severability-1971 ex.s. c 292: See note following RCW 26.28.010.