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      Sec. 17a-474. (Formerly Sec. 17-229a). Release and transfer of inmates of humane institutions. Whenever any person has been committed by any court to any state hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities or other humane institution, the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services or the Commissioner of Children and Families, as the case may be, or any person interested may, at any time thereafter, make application to the court making the order of commitment for a revocation or modification of such order or of the terms and conditions thereof. Such court shall thereupon order such notice of the time and place of hearing thereon as it deems advisable, shall hear and determine such application and may thereupon revoke, modify or affirm such order, and the action of the court thereon shall be subject to appeal as in other cases. Any inmate of a state institution for persons with psychiatric disabilities or for epileptic or mentally retarded may be transferred to any other state institution for persons with psychiatric disabilities or for epileptic or mentally retarded by order of the court making the original commitment of such inmate, upon application in writing by the superintendent of the institution from which such transfer is to be made. Such court shall transmit copies of such order forthwith to the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services or the Commissioner of Children and Families, as the case may be, and the institution from which transfer is made shall pay all costs of such order and transfer. Said commissioner may at any time cause an inmate of one state hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities to be removed to another state hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities, as the circumstances or necessities of the case may require.

      (1949 Rev., S. 2666; 1955, S. 1503d; 1959, P.A. 324; 1967, P.A. 656, S. 14; P.A. 75-603, S. 10, 15; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 48, 53, 58.)

      History: 1959 act substituted mental health commissioner for welfare commissioner; Sec. 17-15 transferred to Sec. 17-229a in 1966; 1967 act added "or commissioner of health"; P.A. 75-603 included commissioner of children and youth services in provisions; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of health with commissioner of health services, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 17-229a transferred to Sec. 17a-474 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. 93-381 substituted commissioner and department of public health and addiction services for commissioner and department of health services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced variants of term "mental illness" with "psychiatric disabilities" and replaced Mental Health Commissioner with Mental Health and Addiction Services Commissioner, effective July 1, 1995 (Revisor's note: References to "Mental Health and Addiction Services Commissioner" were replaced editorially by the Revisors with "Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services" for consistency with customary statutory usage).

      See Sec. 17a-451 re duties of Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

      See Sec. 17a-510 re procedure for release or transfer of patient in a hospital for the mentally ill.

      Annotation to former section 17-229a:

      Cited. 173 C. 473.