CONNECTICUT STATUTES AND CODES
Sec. 17a-562. (Formerly Sec. 17-240). Whiting Forensic Division under control and supervision of Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Sec. 17a-562. (Formerly Sec. 17-240). Whiting Forensic Division under control and supervision of Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. The
Whiting Forensic Division of the Connecticut Valley Hospital shall be within the general
administrative control and supervision of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. The director, with the approval of the commissioner and the board, shall
establish such subdivisions, which may be located geographically separate from the
division, as may be deemed proper for the administrative control and the efficient operation thereof, one of which subdivisions shall be the diagnostic unit.
(1957, P.A. 650, S. 3; 1959, P.A. 208; P.A. 73-245, S. 4; P.A. 95-257, S. 19, 58.)
History: 1959 act deleted stipulation that divisions and subdivisions be within the center and added that they may be
geographically separate; P.A. 73-245 replaced "center" with "institute" reflecting change of security treatment center to
Whiting Forensic Institute; Sec. 17-240 transferred to Sec. 17a-562 in 1991; P.A. 95-257 replaced Whiting Forensic Institute
with Whiting Forensic Division of the Connecticut Valley Hospital, replaced "divisions" with "subdivisions" and replaced
Department of Mental Health with Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, effective July 1, 1995.
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