Chapter 1 - Definitions, Construction and Standard Forms

California Welfare and Institutions Code — §§ 6250-6254

Sections (5)

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 109. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.

(a)As used in this part, “a person subject to judicial commitment” means a person who may be judicially committed under this part as a mentally disordered sex offender pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6331), a sexually violent predator pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 6600), or a person with intellectual disabilities pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 2.

(b)Nothing in this part shall be held to change or interfere with the provisions of the Penal Code and other laws relating to persons with mental health disorders who are charged with a crime or to persons who are found to be not guilty by reason of insanity.

(c)This part shall be liberally

construed so that, as far as possible and consistent with the rights of persons subject to commitment, those persons shall be treated, not as criminals, but as sick persons.

§ 6251

Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 784, Sec. 619. Effective January 1, 2003.

Wherever, on the basis of a petition, provision is made in this code for issuing and delivering an order for examination and detention directing that a person be apprehended and taken before a judge of a superior court for a hearing and examination on an allegation of being a person subject to judicial commitment, the petition shall be in substantially the following form:

§ 6252

Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 1374.

Wherever provision is made in this code for a judge of a superior court to issue and deliver an order for examination or detention directing that a person be apprehended and taken before a judge of a superior court for a hearing and examination on an allegation of being a person subject to judicial commitment, the order for examination or detention shall be in substantially the following form:

§ 6253

Repealed and added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1667.

Wherever provision is made in this code for court-appointed medical examiners to make and sign a certificate showing the facts of an examination in the case of a person alleged to be subject to judicial commitment, the certificate shall be in substantially the following form:In the Superior Court of the State of Californiafor the County of ________

§ 6254

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 110. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.

Wherever provision is made in this code for an order of commitment by a superior court, the order of commitment shall be in substantially the following form: