Chapter 11. Commitment and Maintenance of Persons with Moderate Intellectual Disabilities.
§ 21–1101. Forest Haven defined. [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1102. Persons received in Forest Haven; age limit [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1103. petition as to substantial retardation; contents; verification; notice;process [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1104. Summons; contents; answer not required; return day; service [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1105. Appointment and qualifications of physicians; examination; certificate [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1106. Warrant to take into custody; detention or temporary guardianship; place of detention [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1107. Hearing; continuances; character of proofs; jury trial [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1108. Dismissal and discharge, or placement in Forest Haven; controlling considerations [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1108A. Voluntary admission to Forest Haven [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1109. Private and public patients; bond for support and maintenance; sufficiency and justification of sureties. [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1110. Liability of estate of public patient for maintenance. [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1111. Proceedings to charge relatives legally responsible for maintenance of public patient; collection of maintenance payments; enforcement of order; liability of decedent’s estate. [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1112. Public patients may become private patients by filing bond and paying advance. [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1113. Restrictions on discharge; petition for discharge; causes for discharge; superintendent to be notified; notice of variation of order; denial on petition not a bar to another. [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1114. Proceeding when child brought before Family Division appears to have at least a moderate intellectual disability.
When a child is brought before the Family Division of the Superior Court upon allegations that he is delinquent, neglected, or in need of supervision, and it appears to the court, on the testimony of a physician or psychologist or other evidence, that the child has at least a moderate intellectual ability as defined in the Citizens with Intellectual Disabilities Constitutional Rights and Dignity Act of 1978 (D.C. Official Code, § 7-1301.01 et seq.), the court may adjourn the proceedings, other than proceedings on a motion to transfer pursuant to section 16-2307 , and direct the child’s parent or a guardian appointed by the court to file a petition under that act. The court may order that, pending the preparation, filing, and hearing of the petition, the child be detained in a place of safety, or be placed under the guardianship of a suitable person, if that person enters into a recognizance for his appearance.
§ 21–1115. Inquiry under this chapter if person convicted of offense.
(a) On the conviction by a court of record of competent jurisdiction of a person of an offense, or of a violation of an ordinance which is in whole or in part a violation of a statute of the District of Columbia, the court when satisfied on the testimony of a physician or a psychologist or other psychologist or other evidence that the person has at least a moderate intellectual disability as defined in the Citizens with Intellectual Disabilities Constitutional Rights and Dignity Act (D.C. Official Code § 7-1301.01 et seq.), may suspend sentence, or suspend the entering of an order sending the person to a jail, prison, or reformatory, or to a training or industrial school, and direct that a parent or guardian appointed by the court file a petition under that act.
(b) When the court directs a petition to be filed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, it may order that, pending the preparation, filing and hearing of the petition, the person be detained in a place of safety, or be placed under the guardianship of a suitable person, if that person enters into a recognizance for his appearance.
(c) Where, upon the hearing of a petition filed pursuant to this section or pursuant to a subsequent hearing under this chapter, the person is found not to have at least a moderate intellectual disability, the court shall impose sentence.
§ 21–1116. Transfer to Saint Elizabeths Hospital when person becomes insane [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1117. Separate docket of cases brought under section 21-1103; reports of commissions [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1118. Transfer of substantially retarded from National Training Schools for Boys or Girls [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 21–1119. Removal from school of nonresidents of the District of Columbia. [Repealed]
