Section 253B.14 Transfer of Committed Persons
253B.14 TRANSFER OF COMMITTED PERSONS.
The commissioner may transfer any committed person, other than a person committed as mentally ill and dangerous to the public, or as a sexually dangerous person or as a sexual psychopathic personality, from one regional treatment center to any other treatment facility under the commissioner's jurisdiction which is capable of providing proper care and treatment. When a committed person is transferred from one treatment facility to another, written notice shall be given to the committing court, the county attorney, the patient's counsel, and to the person's parent, health care agent, or spouse or, if none is known, to an interested person, and the designated agency.
History:
1982 c 581 s 14; 1986 c 444; 1997 c 217 art 1 s 72; 2009 c 108 s 8; 2010 c 300 s 22