Sec. 17a-31. (Formerly Sec. 17-435). Transfer of administration and control of certain institutions, facilities and personal property to Commissioner of Children and Families. Transfer of certain fund
Sec. 17a-31. (Formerly Sec. 17-435). Transfer of administration and control
of certain institutions, facilities and personal property to Commissioner of Children and Families. Transfer of certain funds. (a) The Commissioner of Mental Health
and Addiction Services shall contract with the Commissioner of Children and Families
for the transfer of administration and control over the following institutions and facilities
and personal property from the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services
to the Commissioner of Children and Families (1) the children's unit at Connecticut
Valley Hospital including the Silvermine building and the school activities complex at
Connecticut Valley Hospital and the three cottages surrounding the Silvermine building
presently known as Cottages A, B, and C, together with certain real property the precise
boundaries of which shall be agreed upon by both commissioners; and (2) those buildings
and other real property located at Fairfield Hills Hospital which both commissioners
agree should constitute an adolescent unit at said hospital.
(b) The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall determine the pro
rata annual cost to the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services for the
continued maintenance and services of those facilities shared by the Department of
Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Department of Children and Families
pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. That sum, representing the pro rata annual
cost of such maintenance and services shall be transferred annually from the budget of
the Department of Children and Families to the budget of the Department of Mental
Health and Addiction Services for the cost of such maintenance and services.
(P.A. 75-524, S. 24, 30; P.A. 77-220, S. 3, 5; 77-614, S. 19, 610; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; 93-216, S. 3; P.A. 95-257, S. 11, 58.)
History: P.A. 77-220 amended Subsec. (a) to remove July 1, 1975, deadline for transfers and to make transfer in Subdiv.
(5) of entire Undercliff Mental Health Center rather than of Adolescent Drug Rehabilitation Unit and other buildings; P.A.
77-614 replaced commissioner of finance and control with secretary of the office of policy and management in Subsec.
(b); Sec. 17-435 transferred to Sec. 17a-31 in 1991; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and
families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-216 amended
Subsec. (a) by removing certain institutions from the control of the commissioner of children and families; 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.
See title 2c re termination under "Sunset Law".