Section 7501 - Sale or lease of property within Camarillo State Hospital to Ventura County for construction and operation of children's crisis care center(a) The Department of General Services, in cooperation with the State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of State Hospitals, may sell or lease property within the boundaries of Camarillo State Hospital described in subdivision (b) to Ventura County which shall sublet the property to a nonprofit organization for the purpose of constructing and operating a children's crisis care center to provide an alternative to emergency shelter home placement. The facility shall provide for an interagency program for the delivery of medical, educational, and mental health screening, crisis intervention, short-term mental health treatment, and case management services for children who are removed from their families due to abuse, neglect, abandonment, sexual molestation, or who are in acute mental health crisis requiring short-term nonhospital care and supervision described in subdivision (c).(b)(1) The property is a 22.8 acre portion of Rancho Guadalasca, in the County of Ventura, State of California, as described in the Letters of Patent dated September 1, 1873, recorded in Book 1, Page 153 of Patents, in the office of the County Recorder of the county and described as follows:Beginning at the northwesterly terminus of the Fourth Course of that parcel described in the deed recorded on June 9, 1932, in Book 358, Page 371 of Official Records, in said Recorder's Office; thence, along said Fourth Course,
1st - | South 47°23'33" East 1150.00 feet to the northeasterly terminus of the 38th Course of Parcel 1 described in the deed recorded on April 17, 1973, in Book 4101, Page 237 of said Official Records; thence, along said 38th Course, |
2nd - | South 42°37'00" West 1026.00 feet; thence, parallel with the First Course herein, |
3rd - | North 47°23'33" West 800.00 feet; thence, parallel with the Second Course herein, |
4th - | North 42°37'00" East 666.00 feet; thence, parallel with the First Course herein, |
5th - | North 47°23'33" West 350.00 feet to the intersection with the Third Course of said parcel described in the deed recorded in Book 358, Page 371 of said Official Records; thence, along said Third Course, |
6th - | North 42°37'00" East 360.00 feet to the point of beginning. |
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, if the parcel described in this subdivision is purchased or leased from the state, 50 percent of the proceeds shall accrue to the State Department of State Hospitals and 50 percent to the Department of Developmental Services.(3) The Department of General Services may enter into a sale or lease at less than fair market value. The department is authorized to lease the parcel for not less than 40, but not more than 99 years.(c) Any of the following children are eligible for placement in the children's crisis care center:(1) Any child who has been placed in protective custody and legally detained under Section 300 as a victim of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. The child shall be one day through 17 years of age. An infant born suffering from the result of perinatal substance abuse, or an infant who requires shelter care because of physical abuse resulting in a cast on the arm or leg shall also be eligible.(2) Any dependent minor of the juvenile court whose placement has been disrupted, and who is in need of temporary placement, as well as crisis intervention and assessment services.(3) Any voluntarily placed emotionally disturbed child in crisis as determined appropriate by the mental health case manager. The purpose of this placement is to deescalate the crisis, provide assessment and diagnostic services for a recommendation of appropriate treatment and ongoing placement, and to reduce the utilization of private or state psychiatric hospitalization.(4) Any eligible child who is a resident of any county in California, subject to the availability of space.Ca. Welf. and Inst. Code § 7501
Amended by Stats 2012 ch 440 (AB 1488),s 72, eff. 9/22/2012.