51.08

51.08 Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex. Any county having a population of 500,000 or more may, pursuant to § 46.17, establish and maintain a county mental health complex. The county mental health complex shall be a hospital devoted to the detention and care of drug addicts, alcoholics, chronic patients and mentally ill persons whose mental illness is acute. Such hospital shall be governed pursuant to § 46.21. Treatment of alcoholics at the county mental health complex is subject to approval by the department under § 51.45 (8). The county mental health complex established pursuant to this section is subject to rules promulgated by the department concerning hospital standards.