(1) A person who by law is committed to the department of human services for placement in a state hospital may be committed to or placed in the center upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction, except those persons committed to the Colorado mental health institute at Pueblo pursuant to a judicial determination of not guilty by reason of insanity and those persons committed under section 16-8-106(1), C.R.S., relating to commitments for observation and examination.(2) A person placed at the center may be transferred to the Colorado mental health institute at Pueblo, the Wheat Ridge regional center, the Grand Junction regional center, the Pueblo regional center, the Mount View school, or the Lookout Mountain school in accordance with law.(3) A person placed at the center may be released under such terms and conditions as would entitle him or her to his or her release from the Colorado mental health institute at Pueblo.L. 2010: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 10-175), ch. 188, p. 776, §2, effective April 29.This section is similar to former § 27-15-105 as it existed prior to 2010.
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