CALIFORNIA STATUTES AND CODES
SECTIONS 7200-7207
WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE
SECTION 7200-7207
7200. There are in the state the following state hospitals for the
care, treatment, and education of the mentally disordered:
(a) Metropolitan State Hospital near the City of Norwalk, Los
Angeles County.
(b) Atascadero State Hospital near the City of Atascadero, San
Luis Obispo County.
(c) Napa State Hospital near the City of Napa, Napa County.
(d) Patton State Hospital near the City of San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County.
(e) Coalinga State Hospital near the City of Coalinga, Fresno
County.
7200.05. It is the intent of the Legislature that not more than 227
patients whose placement has been required pursuant to provisions of
the Penal Code shall be placed in Metropolitan State Hospital in the
1996-97 fiscal year.
7200.06. (a) Of the 1,362 licensed beds at Napa State Hospital, at
least 20 percent of these beds shall be available in any given fiscal
year for use by counties for contracted services. Of the remaining
beds, in no case shall the population of patients whose placement has
been required pursuant to the Penal Code exceed 980.
(b) After construction of the perimeter security fence is
completed at Napa State Hospital, no patient whose placement has been
required pursuant to the Penal Code shall be placed outside the
perimeter security fences, with the exception of placements in the
general acute care and skilled nursing units. The State Department of
Mental Health shall ensure that appropriate security measures are in
place for the general acute care and skilled nursing units.
(c) Any alteration to the security perimeter structure or policies
shall be made in conjunction with representatives of the City of
Napa, the County of Napa, and local law enforcement agencies.
7200.07. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not more than
824 patients whose placement has been required pursuant to the Penal
Code shall be placed at Napa State Hospital in the 1998-99 fiscal
year.
7200.5. The children's treatment center at Camarillo State Hospital
shall be known as the Norbert I. Rieger Children's Treatment Center.
7201. All of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the State
Department of Mental Health shall be governed by the uniform rules
and regulations of the State Department of Mental Health and all of
the provisions of Part 2 (commencing with Section 4100) of Division 4
of this code on the administration of state institutions for the
mentally disordered shall apply to the conduct and management of the
state hospitals for the mentally disordered. All of the institutions
under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental
Services shall be governed by the uniform rules and regulations of
the State Department of Developmental Services and, except as
provided in Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 7500) of this
division, all of the provisions of Part 2 (commencing with Section
4440) of Division 4.1 of this code on the administration of state
institutions for the developmentally disabled shall apply to the
conduct and management of the state hospitals for the developmentally
disabled.
7202. The State Department of Mental Health shall regularly consult
with the Napa State Hospital Task Force, which consists of local
community representatives, on proposed policy or structural
modifications to Napa State Hospital that may affect the Napa
community, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(a) Changes in the patient population mix.
(b) Construction of, or significant alterations to, facility
structures.
(c) Changes in the hospital security plan.
7203. The Director of General Services may grant to the San
Bernardino Unified School District or to the County of San Bernardino
under such terms, conditions, and restrictions as he deems to be for
the best interests of the state, the necessary easements and
rights-of-way over and across the Patton State Hospital property for
all purposes of a public or private road. The right-of-way shall be
across, along, and upon the following described property:
The westerly 33 feet of Lot 2 of Block 60 of Rancho San Bernardino
as recorded in Book 7 of Maps, page 2, Records of San Bernardino
County, State of California, saving and excepting the southerly 40
rods thereof.
7204. (a) Grounds privileges or passes may be earned by patients,
whose placement has been required pursuant to the Penal Code, at all
state hospitals. Grounds privileges shall be restricted to areas of
the state hospital that are designated as secured campus areas.
(b) Off-ground privileges or passes shall not be granted to
patients, whose placement has been required pursuant to the Penal
Code, at state hospitals. When a patient whose placement has been
required pursuant to the Penal Code leaves a state hospital for any
purpose other than discharge, the patient shall be accompanied by
staff at all times.
7205. The Director of General Services with the consent of the
State Department of Developmental Services is hereby authorized to
transfer to the City of Costa Mesa and to convey to said city all of
the state's rights, title and interest, and upon such terms and
conditions and with such reservations and exceptions as in the
opinion of the Director of General Services may be in the best
interest of the state, and subject to such use or uses as may be
agreed upon by the city and the State Department of Developmental
Services with the approval of the Director of General Services, in
all or any part of the real property consisting of approximately five
acres lying at the southwest corner of the Fairview State Hospital
property in Orange County, being a parcel of land lying within Lot A
of the Banning Tract, in the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, City of
Orange, State of California, as shown on a map of said tract filed in
action No. 6385 in the Superior Court of the State of California in
and for the City of Los Angeles, being an action for partition
entitled Hancock Banning et al. vs. Mary H. Banning, more
particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the most southeasterly corner of Parcel G as shown on
a record of survey filed in Book 53, pages 34 through 36, of records
of Surveys in the office of the County Recorder of Orange County,
California; thence along the boundary of said Parcel G northwesterly
along a curve concave southwesterly having a radius of 540.00 feet
through a central angle of 23 degrees, 01 minutes, 33 seconds, an arc
distance of 217.01 feet, thence north 34 degrees, 32 minutes, 30
seconds west, 97.50 feet to a point on a line parallel with and
280.00 feet measured at right angles northerly of the north line of
Fairview Farms as shown on said record of Survey; thence departing
from the boundary of said Parcel G north 89 degrees, 27 minutes, 30
seconds east along said parallel line 936.97 feet; thence south 0
degrees, 32 minutes, 30 seconds east, 280.00 feet to said north line
of Fairview Farms; thence south 89 degrees, 27 minutes, 30 seconds,
west, 800.00 feet to the point of beginning.
The conveyance of such property shall be subject to the following
conditions:
(a) There shall be excepted and reserved in the state all deposits
of minerals, including oil and gas, in the property and to the
state, or persons authorized by the state, the right to prospect for,
mine, and remove such deposits from the property.
(b) If the city shall cease to use the property for public
purposes, all right, title, and interest of the county in and to the
property shall cease and the property shall revert and rest in the
state.
7206. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4444, the Director
of General Services, with the consent of the Director of
Developmental Services, may grant a right-of-way for road purposes to
the County of San Bernardino over and along a portion of the Patton
State Hospital property adjacent to Arden Way and Pacific Street upon
such terms and conditions and with such reservations and exceptions
as in the opinion of the Director of General Services will be for the
best interests of the state.
7207. The Director of General Services, with the consent of the
State Department of Mental Health, may grant to the Regents of the
University of California, upon such terms, conditions, and with such
reservations and exceptions as in the opinion of the Director of
General Services may be for the best interest of the state, the
necessary easements and rights-of-way for a utilities relocation and
campus access road on the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute
property. The right-of-way shall be across, along and upon the
following described property:
A strip of land approximately 40