33-3-412 - Emergency residential care and treatment for minors in youth development centers.
33-3-412. Emergency residential care and treatment for minors in youth development centers.
(a) The chief officer of a youth development center shall immediately have a person transferred to a facility of the department designated by the commissioner, if the chief officer of the youth development center of the department of childrens services determines, on the basis of a written report of a licensed physician or a licensed psychologist designated as a health service provider, that the person in the youth development center:
(1) Has serious emotional disturbance or mental illness; and
(2) Is in need of emergency residential care and treatment for the condition that cannot be provided at the youth development center and that can be provided by an appropriate residential program of the department.
(b) When a person in the custody of the department of children's services is transferred to a facility of the department of mental health and developmental disabilities under this section, the chief officer of the receiving facility shall convene a transfer committee not less than seven (7) nor more than fourteen (14) days thereafter, unless the person is returned to the youth development center or other appropriate program of the department of children's services before the scheduled hearing date.
[Acts 1996, ch. 1079, § 46; 2000, ch. 947, §§ 1, 6.]