New Jersey Statutes 30:4-27.21. Transfer of patients
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 30:4-27.21
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Human Services. See New Jersey Statutes 30:1-1
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
b. A person involuntarily committed to a State psychiatric facility may be transferred to a facility for psychiatric or medical care pursuant to an agreement between the department and that facility which specifies the clinical and programmatic factors and the procedures related to the transfer.
c. A developmentally disabled person who resides in a State developmental center or other residential functional services placement for the developmentally disabled who is in need of involuntary commitment shall be involuntarily committed to a State or county psychiatric facility. As a result of the involuntary commitment, the physical transfer of the developmentally disabled person from the developmental center or other residential functional services placement to a State or county psychiatric facility and from the facility back to the developmental center or other residential functional services placement shall be on a two-way commissioner’s order of transfer, which order shall be in effect for as long as the person is involuntarily committed. The person is not required to file a new application for functional services from the Division of Developmental Disabilities upon transfer back to the developmental center or other residential functional services placement. The person’s legal settlement shall remain unchanged and the person shall not gain or lose legal settlement because of the transfers.
L.1987,c.116,s.21; amended 1995,c.155,s.8.