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394.60  Transfer of patients.--If the director of a center upon advice of his or her clinical staff determines that any child at the center is not responding to or benefiting from the treatment and education programs at the center and that such child is in need of further care, rehabilitation, special training, education, and treatment and would be more suitably cared for, rehabilitated, trained, educated, and treated at another of the state facilities under the ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, the center shall request the child's transfer to the proper facility. Transfers of such child to a mental health facility or retardation facility shall follow the procedures as set forth in part I of chapter 394 and chapter 393, respectively.

History.--s. 11, ch. 59-383; ss. 19, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 131, ch. 77-104; s. 216, ch. 77-147; s. 24, ch. 78-414; s. 7, ch. 78-434; s. 720, ch. 95-148.

¹Note.--The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was redesignated as the Department of Children and Family Services by s. 5, ch. 96-403, and the Department of Health was created by s. 8, ch. 96-403.