2000 Minnesota Statutes

     245.0312 Designating special units and regional centers. 

    Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, 
 during the biennium, the commissioner of human services, upon 
 the approval of the governor after consulting with the 
 legislative advisory commission, may designate portions of 
 hospitals for the mentally ill under the commissioner's control 
 as special care units for mentally retarded or inebriate 
 persons, or as nursing homes for persons over the age of 65, and 
 may designate portions of the hospitals designated in Minnesota 
 Statutes 1969, section 252.025, subdivision 1, as special care 
 units for mentally ill or inebriate persons, and may plan to 
 develop all hospitals for mentally ill, mentally retarded, or 
 inebriate persons under the commissioner's control as 
 multipurpose regional centers for programs related to all of the 
 said problems.  

    If approved by the governor, the commissioner may rename 
 the state hospital as a state regional center and appoint the 
 hospital administrator as administrator of the center, in 
 accordance with section 246.0251.  

    The directors of the separate program units of regional 
 centers shall be responsible directly to the commissioner at the 
 discretion of the commissioner.  

    HIST: 1971 c 961 s 19; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 
 1986 c 444