Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17a-459 (2026)

The Connecticut Mental Health Center shall be a facility of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and shall include the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven and such satellite locations as the department may approve. The department shall operate the center in collaboration with Yale University under mutual agreement of the parties. The department may provide treatment at the center to adults, children or youths with psychiatric disabilities, substance use disorders or both such disabilities. Admissions shall be within the control of the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services and no court may commit or transfer any person to or place or confine any person in the center without the approval of the commissioner or the commissioner's designee.

(1963, P.A. 579, S. 1; P.A. 83-79, S. 1, 2; P.A. 95-257, S. 11, 58; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-2, S. 16, 72; P.A. 06-196, S. 126; P.A. 07-148, S. 13.)

History: P.A. 83-79 precluded commitment or transfer of patients to the center without the approval of the commissioner or his designee; Sec. 17-209a transferred to Sec. 17a-459 in 1991; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Mental Health with Commissioner and Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, effective July 1, 1995; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-2 added reference to the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven and satellite locations the department approves of, added provision allowing department to provide treatment at the center to adults, children or youth with psychiatric disabilities, substance abuse or both and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 06-196 made a technical change, effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 07-148 replaced “substance abuse disabilities” with “substance use disorders”.

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