CONNECTICUT STATUTES AND CODES
Sec. 17a-280. (Formerly Sec. 19a-454). Recommitment and transfers of committed persons.
Sec. 17a-280. (Formerly Sec. 19a-454). Recommitment and transfers of committed persons. (a) Persons with mental retardation who are not serious discipline
problems may be recommitted by a probate court commitment from any institution in
the state to the Southbury Training School, a state developmental services region or any
state facility provided for the care and training of persons with mental retardation. The
court of probate situated in the town wherein the institution from which such person
with mental retardation is recommitted shall have jurisdiction.
(b) Any resident with mental retardation of any such institution may be transferred
from the institution to which the resident is committed or admitted to any of the other
institutions upon the agreement of the superintendents or directors.
(c) Mentally ill persons may be transferred from any such institution to any state
hospital for the mentally ill upon agreement of the superintendents of the respective
institutions from and to which it is desired to make such a transfer. The state hospitals
for the mentally ill may transfer any person with mental retardation, not psychotic, to
the Southbury Training School, a state developmental services region or any state facility
provided for the care and training of persons with mental retardation upon agreement
of the superintendents or directors of the respective institutions from and to which it is
desired to make such a transfer.
(d) The cost of any transfer or recommitment shall be paid by the institution from
which the transfer is made. When a patient or resident of any institution is transferred,
the order of commitment shall be retained in the original institution to which the patient
or resident was committed and a certified copy of such commitment, with the agreement
of transfer, shall accompany the patient or resident to the institution to which the patient
or resident is transferred.
(1949 Rev., S. 2847; 1955, S. 1589d, 1590d; March, 1958, P.A. 27, S. 42; 1961, P.A. 489, S. 8; 1967, P.A. 118, S. 4,
5; 249; P.A. 76-153, S. 7; P.A. 86-41, S. 6, 11; P.A. 91-278, S. 3; P.A. 08-7, S. 7.)
History: 1961 act substituted "mentally retarded" for "mentally deficient" persons, added references in Subsecs. (a),
(b) and (c) to any other state facility, etc. and substituted patient or resident for inmate in Subsec. (d); 1967 acts changed
name of Mansfield State Training School and Hospital and added other state facilities to Subsec. (c); P.A. 76-153 included
regional centers, removed epileptic persons from purview of section and made minor language changes, replacing "inmate",
etc.; Sec. 17-175 transferred to Sec. 19-569k in 1977; Sec. 19-569k transferred to Sec. 19a-454 in 1983; P.A. 86-41 added
references to institution directors and substituted references to mental retardation regions for references to regional centers;
Sec. 19a-454 transferred to Sec. 17a-280 in 1991; P.A. 91-278 made technical changes to remove references to Mansfield
Training School; P.A. 08-7 amended Subsec. (a) by renaming state mental retardation region as state developmental services
region and by making technical changes, amended Subsecs. (b) and (d) by making technical changes and amended Subsecs.
(a) to (c) by substituting persons "with mental retardation" for "mentally retarded" persons, effective April 29, 2008.
See Sec. 17a-474 re release and transfer of inmates of humane institutions.
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