When any person has been transferred from the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Somers, the York Correctional Institution, or its maximum security division, the John R. Manson Youth Institution, Cheshire, or a community correctional center to a state hospital, such person's hospital expense prior to the termination of his sentence shall be charged to the state. If any person, transferred from a correctional institution or community correction center is committed to or otherwise remains in a state hospital after the expiration of his sentence, such person's hospital expense shall be paid to the state in the manner provided for payment in sections 17b-122, 17b-124 to 17b-132, inclusive, 17b-136 to 17b-138, inclusive, 17b-194 to 17b-197, inclusive, 17b-222 to 17b-250, inclusive, 17b-256, 17b-263, 17b-340 to 17b-350, inclusive, 17b-689b and 17b-743 to 17b-747, inclusive.
(1949 Rev., S. 2670; 1953, S. 1504d; 1959, P.A. 165; 1969, P.A. 297; P.A. 75-416, S. 1, 3; P.A. 86-186, S. 7; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-3, S. 97; P.A. 04-76, S. 52; P.A. 15-14, S. 28.)
History: 1959 act deleted requirement for payment to state of other necessary costs of commitment when person is committed to state hospital after expiration of his sentence; 1969 act substituted “community correctional center” for “jail”; P.A. 75-416 provided that state bear cost when person transferred to state hospital from community correctional centers, previously person's estate bore cost if there was an estate; P.A. 86-186 changed the name of the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Cheshire to the John R. Manson Youth Institution, Cheshire; Sec. 17-318 transferred to Sec. 17b-250 in 1995; (Revisor's note: In 1999 the references to “17b-115 to 17b-138” and “17b-689 to 17b-693, inclusive,” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “17b-116 to 17b-138” and “17b-689, 17b-689b”, respectively, to reflect the repeal of certain sections by section 164 of June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2); June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-3, in repealing Secs. 17b-19, 17b-62 to 17b-65, inclusive, 17b-116, 17b-116a, 17b-116b, 17b-117, 17b-120, 17b-121, 17b-123, 17b-134, 17b-135, 17b-220, 17b-259 and 17b-287, authorized deletion of internal references to said sections in this section, effective March 1, 2004; P.A. 04-76 deleted references to Secs. 17b-118b and 17b-221 that were repealed by the same act; P.A. 15-14 made a technical change.
Annotations to former section 17-318:
Cited. 192 C. 520; 230 C. 400.
Cited. 30 CS 118.
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