Sec. 17b-236. (Formerly Sec. 17-309). Admission of physically disabled children to The Children's Center.
Sec. 17b-236. (Formerly Sec. 17-309). Admission of physically disabled children to The Children's Center. When there is found in any town in this state any
child of sound mind who is physically disabled or who is afflicted with poliomyelitis
or rheumatic fever, or any uncontagious disabling disease, and who is unable to pay and
whose relatives who are legally liable for his support are unable to pay the full cost of
treating such disease, if such child and one of such relatives reside in this state, the
selectmen of such town, or the guardian or any relative of such child, or any public
health agency or physician in this state, may make application to The Children's Center,
located at Hamden, for the admission of such child to said center. Said center shall admit
such child if such child is pronounced by the physicians on the staff of said center, after
examination, to be fit for admission, and said center shall keep and support such child
for such length of time as it deems proper. Said center shall not be required to admit
any such child unless it can conveniently receive and care for him at the time such
application is made, and said center may return to the town in which such child resides
any child so taken who is pronounced by the physicians on the staff of said center, after
examination, to be unfit for retention, or who, by reason of improvement in his condition
or completion of his treatment or training, ought not to be further retained. The center
may refuse to admit any child who is pronounced by the physicians on the staff of said
center, after examination, to be unfit for admission, and may refuse to admit any such
child when the facilities at the center will not, in the judgment of said physicians, permit
the center to care for such child adequately and properly.
(1955, S. 1442d; 1969, P.A. 571, S. 7, 9.)
History: 1969 act changed name of New Haven Orphan Asylum to the Children's Center; Sec. 17-309 transferred to
Sec. 17b-236 in 1995.