The department has jurisdiction over the following institutions:

Fairview State Hospital.

Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital.

Porterville State Hospital.

Sonoma State Hospital.

The department may contract with the State Department of State Hospitals to provide services to persons with developmental disabilities in state hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals.

A state hospital under the jurisdiction of the department may also be known as a developmental center.

Except as otherwise specifically provided elsewhere in this code, all of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services shall be governed by uniform rule and regulation of the State Department of Developmental Services and all of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to the conduct and management of such institutions.

The State Department of Developmental Services shall develop policies and procedures, by no later than 30 days following the effective date of the Budget Act of 1999, at each developmental center, to notify appropriate law enforcement agencies in the event of a forensic client walkaway or escape. Local law enforcement agencies, including local police and county sheriff’s departments, shall review the policies and procedures prior to final implementation by the department.

Each state hospital is a corporation.

Each such corporation may acquire and hold in its corporate name by gift, grant, devise, or bequest property to be applied to the maintenance of the patients of the hospital and for the general use of the corporation.

All lands necessary for the use of state hospitals except those acquired by gift, devise, or purchase, shall be acquired by condemnation as lands for other public uses are acquired.

The terms of every purchase shall be approved by the State Department of Developmental Services. No public street or road for railway or other purposes, except for hospital use, shall be opened through the lands of any state hospital, unless the Legislature by special enactment consents thereto.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4444, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services, may grant rights-of-way for road purposes over and across state property comprising the site of the Sonoma State Hospital, upon such terms and conditions as the Director of General Services may deem to be for the best interests of the state.

Notwithstanding Section 4444, the Director of General Services with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services, may grant a right-of-way for road purposes to the City of Stockton over and along a portion of the Stockton State Hospital property adjacent to Harding Way upon such terms and conditions and with such reservations and exceptions as in the opinion of the Director of General Services may be for the best interests of the state.

The Director of General Services under the same conditions may grant a right-of-way for road purposes to the County of Orange over a portion of the Fairview State Hospital property adjacent to Harbor Boulevard.

The department shall participate with the City of Porterville in the construction of an interceptor sewer between the Porterville State Hospital facilities and the sewer facilities of the City of Porterville.

For the purpose of this section the state may expend from any available funds 20 percent of the bid for the construction of the project authorized pursuant to this section or sixty thousand dollars ($60,000), whichever is less.

The State Department of Developmental Services has general control and direction of the property and concerns of each state hospital specified in Section 4440. The department shall:

The medical superintendent shall make triplicate estimates, in minute detail, as approved by the State Department of Developmental Services of such supplies, expenses, buildings, and improvements as are required for the best interests of the hospital, and for the improvement thereof and of the grounds and buildings connected therewith. These estimates shall be submitted to the State Department of Developmental Services which may revise them. The department shall certify that it has carefully examined the estimates, and that the supplies, expenses, buildings, and improvements contained in such estimates, as approved by it, are required for the best interests of the hospital. The department shall thereupon proceed to purchase such supplies, make such expenditures, or conduct such improvements or buildings in accordance with law.

The state hospitals may manufacture supplies, materials, and assisting devices which are for the benefit of individuals with disabilities who otherwise would not have access to those articles, or which are necessary or required to be used in any of the state hospitals, and which can be economically manufactured therein. The necessary cost and expense of providing for and conducting the manufacture of such supplies and materials shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses of the hospitals. No hospital shall enter into or engage in manufacturing any supplies or materials unless permission for the same is obtained from the State Department of Developmental Services. If, at any time, it appears to the department that the manufacture of any article is not being or cannot be economically carried on at a state hospital, the department may suspend or stop the manufacture of such article, and on receipt of a certified copy of the order directing the suspension or stopping of such manufacture, by the medical superintendent, the hospital shall cease from manufacturing such article.

All money belonging to the state and received by state hospitals from any source, except appropriations, shall, at the end of each month, be deposited in the State Treasury, to the credit of the General Fund. This section shall not apply to the funds known as the industrial or amusement funds or the “sheltered workshop funds.”

The state hospitals and the officers thereof shall make such financial statements to the Controller as the Controller requires.

The authorities for the several hospitals shall furnish to the State Department of Developmental Services the facts mentioned in Section 4425 and such other obtainable facts as the department from time to time requires of them, with the opinion of the superintendent thereon, if requested. The superintendent or other person in charge of a hospital shall, within 10 days after the admission of any person thereto, cause an abstract of the medical certificate and order on which such person was received and a list of all property, books, and papers of value found in the possession of or belonging to such person to be forwarded to the office of the department, and when a patient is discharged, transferred, or dies, the superintendent or person in charge shall within three days thereafter, send the information to the office of the department, in accordance with the form prescribed by it.

The department may permit, subject to such conditions and regulations as it may impose, any religious or missionary corporation or society to erect a building on the grounds of any state hospital for the holding of religious services. Each such building when erected shall become the property of the state and shall be used exclusively for the benefit of the patients and employees of the state hospital.

The department may establish and supervise under its rules and regulations training schools or courses for employees of the department or of state institutions under its jurisdiction.