Sec. 17a-33. (Formerly Sec. 17-435c). Undercliff Mental Health Center buildings and facilities under the control of the Department of Developmental Services.
Sec. 17a-33. (Formerly Sec. 17-435c). Undercliff Mental Health Center buildings and facilities under the control of the Department of Developmental Services.
(a) Those buildings, facilities and other real property at Undercliff Mental Health Center
not under the supervision and control of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction
Services, and not transferred to the Department of Children and Families under section
17a-31, shall continue to be under the supervision and control of the Department of
Developmental Services, including, but not limited to Kimball House, Cold Spring
Home, and any replacement of such buildings; and approximately six acres of land
situated southwest of the intersection of Route 71 and Undercliff Road in Meriden, the
precise boundaries of which shall be mutually agreed upon by the Commissioners of
Children and Families and Developmental Services, shall be transferred to said Department of Developmental Services.
(b) If at any time, because of reconstruction or rehabilitation of the facilities under
the supervision and control of the Department of Developmental Services, it becomes
necessary to transfer the patients therein to another facility, such patients shall be placed
in group homes in the immediate region or in suitable, segregated areas of the facilities
of the Department of Children and Families at said center which shall be mutually agreed
upon by the commissioners of said departments.
(P.A. 77-220, S. 4, 5; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; P.A. 95-257, S. 11, 58; P.A. 07-73, S. 2(a), (b).)
History: Sec. 17-435c transferred to Sec. 17a-33 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. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Mental Health with Commissioner and Department of Mental Health and
Addiction Services, effective July 1, 1995; pursuant to P.A. 07-73 "Commissioner of Mental Retardation" and "Department
of Mental Retardation" were changed editorially by the Revisors to "Commissioner of Developmental Services" and
"Department of Developmental Services", effective October 1, 2007.