(705 ILCS 405/6-4) (from Ch. 37, par. 806-4)
Sec. 6-4. Psychiatric Departments; counties under 1,000,000. (1) Any county having less than 1,000,000 inhabitants or any group of
counties constituting a probation district may maintain a Psychiatric
Department to render clinical services requested, authorized or ordered by
the court. The Psychiatric Department may be required by the circuit court
to render services to the court in other matters as well as in proceedings
under this Act. In any county or probation district the Psychiatric
Department may be established as a separate division of a more inclusive
psychiatric department or of a comprehensive department of court services,
with any appropriate divisional designation.
(2) The chief judge of the circuit court shall appoint a professionally
qualified person as Director of the Psychiatric Department established for
any county or probation district in the circuit, to serve at the chief judge's pleasure,
and may authorize the Director to appoint such other personnel of the
Department as the chief judge from time to time may determine are needed,
to serve at the pleasure of the Director. The Director shall have general
charge of the Department under the supervision of the chief judge or of
some other judge designated by the chief judge for that purpose.
(3) Appointments to any professional position in the Psychiatric
Department must be made in accordance with standards prescribed by the
chief judge in consultation with an advisory committee of the chief judge's selection,
composed of persons of recognized and outstanding ability in the practice
of psychiatry or psychology or in the teaching or practice of social
service and public welfare work.
(Source: P.A. 103-22, eff. 8-8-23.)
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