Pennsylvania Statutes Title 50 P.S. Mental Health § 4512. Deadline for establishment of county mental health and intellectual disability program; failure to comply with minimum standards; penalties

(a) Each county acting alone or in participation with other counties as provided in section 301  1 shall, by January 1, 1969, submit to the department for approval a plan for a county mental health and intellectual disability program. The information and material upon which such plan shall be formulated for submission to the department shall be published and distributed to the counties by the Advisory Committee for Mental Health and Intellectual Disability on or before August 1, 1968.

(b) If, by July 1, 1969, any county has not submitted any plan or if although it shall have submitted a plan, it has not made such alterations or additions to such plan as to secure approval by the department, the department shall provide mental health and intellectual disability services for such county.

(c) If at any time after the approval of a plan, the department determines, after hearing, that such county or combination of participating counties is not complying with regulations promulgated under section 202(2)  2 and that, as a result, the needs of the mentally disabled persons are not being adequately met, the department shall provide mental health and intellectual disability services for such county or counties.

(d) When in pursuance of this section, the department shall provide the mental health and intellectual disability services of a county or counties, such county or counties shall be charged and shall pay the county share computed in accordance with section 509,  3 and, to compensate the State for its expenses incident to the administration of the county program, an additional fifteen percent of the net cost to the Commonwealth for the county program. The amount due the Commonwealth shall be paid by the county or counties within twelve months after receipt of the department's notice of the amount due. All sums collected from the county under this section, in whatever manner such collections are made, shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited to the current appropriations to the department to carry out State obligations under this section.

(e) The department shall relinquish the administration of the mental health and intellectual disability program of the county upon establishment or reinstatement as the case may be, of an approved county mental health and intellectual disability program in compliance with this act and thereafter grants and payments authorized herein may be made by the department.