Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 5154 – Liability for cost of maintenance and care
The expenses of the removal of an adult with a criminally mental condition or a criminally inclined juvenile and of the adult’s or juvenile’s admission to a hospital under this subchapter, and the charges and expense for the maintenance and care at such hospital shall be paid by the institution which had charge of such case. Where such persons are committed by the proper courts otherwise than from an institution of the State, the State Treasurer shall pay such hospital for such removal, admission, maintenance and care. If any such adult with a criminally mental condition or criminally inclined juvenile has any real or personal estate, the Department of Health and Social Services or the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families shall have, for the expenses and charges incurred, the same remedy as is provided in § 5019 of this title.
Code 1935, c. 76; 46 Del. Laws, c. 190, § ?4; 16 Del. C. 1953, § ?5154; 49 Del. Laws, c. 57, § ?1; 55 Del. Laws, c. 85, § ?35B; 57 Del. Laws, c. 228, § ?7; 66 Del. Laws, c. 424, § ?10; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §§ ?199, 200; 79 Del. Laws, c. 442, § ?2; 81 Del. Laws, c. 79, § ?26;
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 5154
- Department: means the Department of Health and Social Services except that Department means the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families in the context of a treatment facility serving minors. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 5181
- Mental condition: means a mental disorder as defined in the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 5181
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302