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PUBLIC LAW 91-490-OCT. 22, 1970

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Public Law 91-490 AN ACT

To authorize voluntary admission of patients to the District of Columbia institution providing care, education, and treatment of substantially retarded persons.

October 22, 1970

[H. R. 4182]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Am£7ica in Congress assewMed, institution for SECTION 1. The first four sections of the Act entitled "An Act to pro- retarded, voiunvide for commitments to, maintenance in, and discharges from the ^^^^ admission. District Training School, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1925, is amended as follows: Stat. 1135. (1) The first section of such Act (D.C. Code, sec, 32^601) is 43. C. Code 3 2 D amended— 602. (A) by striking out "feeble-minded" and inserting "substantially retarded", (B) by striking out "Board" and inserting "Department", and (C) by striking out "The District Training School" and Forest Haven. inserting "Forest Haven". "Subs nti (2) Section 2 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 32-603) is amended to retardedt aper-a l l y read as follows: "SEC. 2. For the purposes of this Act, the term 'substantially retarded persons' means persons afflicted with mental defectiveness from birth or from an early age, so pronounced that they are incapable of managing themselves and their affairs, and who require supervision, control, and care for their own welfare, for the welfare of others, or for the welfare of the community, and who are not insane nor of unsound mind to such an extent as to require their commitment to a hospital for the mentally ill." 44 Stat. 2 0 8. (3) Section 3 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 32-604) is amended— (A) by striking out "Board" and inserting "Department", (B) by striking out "inmates" and inserting "patients", and (C) by striking out "board" each place it appears and inserting "Department". (4) Section 4 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 32-605) is amended— (A) by striking out "Board" and inserting "Department", (B) by striking out "feeble-minded" and inserting "substantially retarded", and (C) by striking out "board" and inserting "Department". SEC. 2. (a) Chapter 11 of title 21 of the District of Columbia Code 79 Stat. 7 6 6. D.. (relating to commitment and maintenance of feeble-minded persons) 1101CtoCode 2 1 21-1123 is amended as follows: (1) Such chapter is amended by striking out "feeble-minded" each place it appears in sections 21-1102 through 21-1108,21-1110,21-1111, 21-1113 through 21-1115, 21-1118, and 21-1123 and inserting in each Ante, p. 5 6 8. such place in those sections "substantially retarded". (2) Such chapter is amended by striking out "the District Training School" each place it appears in sections 21-1102, 21-1108 through 21-1113, 21-1116, and 21-1118 through 21-1122 and inserting in each such place in those sections "Forest Haven". (3)(A) Such chapter is amended by inserting after section 2 1 1108 the following new section: "§ 21-1108A. Voluntary admission to Forest Haven " (a) The Director of Public Welfare (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'Director') may admit a person to Forest Haven as a patient under this section only if— "(1) such person is certified by the Director of Public Health to be substantially retarded and in need of care at Forest Haven; ^'(2) such person either by himself, his parents, his spouse, or

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