The state, through the agency of the state-operated facility, as defined in section 17a-458, authorizing the transfer of a resident to a private boarding home for mental patients, group home, chronic and convalescent hospital or other residential facility as provided by section 17a-509, shall pay the cost of the board and care of such mentally ill person, provided such cost shall not be in excess of the rates established under section 17b-340 for such facilities.
(1949 Rev., S. 2685; 1953, 1955, S. 1513d; 1957, P.A. 19; 1959, P.A. 543; P.A. 80-3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-39, S. 3, 18; P.A. 10-32, S. 65.)
History: 1959 act deleted provision that state pay costs in addition to those paid in accordance with Sec. 17-295, added that payment is not to exceed rates under Sec. 17-314 and substituted term “mentally retarded” for “mentally deficient”; P.A. 80-3 deleted state hospital reference, included state-operated facilities, regional centers or other facilities for care and training of the mentally retarded and group homes or other residential facilities and updated section reference to reflect transfer of Sec. 17-174 to Sec. 19-569h; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-39 deleted reference to state training schools, regional centers or other facilities for the care and training of the mentally retarded and reference to Sec. 19a-451; Sec. 17-306 transferred to Sec. 17b-232 in 1995; P.A. 10-32 made a technical change, effective May 10, 2010.
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