Section 7277.

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The State Department of State Hospitals shall collect all the costs and charges mentioned in Section 7275, and shall determine, pursuant to Section 7275, and collect the charges for care and treatment rendered persons in any community mental hygiene clinics maintained by the department and may take action as is necessary to effect their collection within or without the state. The Director of State Hospitals may, however, at his or her discretion, refuse to accept payment of charges for the care and treatment in a state hospital of any mentally disordered person or inebriate who is eligible for deportation by the federal immigration authorities.

(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 24, Sec. 168. Effective June 27, 2012.)

                    
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