There shall be admitted to the institutions defined in Section 111 the following:
(1) An indigent sick person or a dependent poor person of the City and County of San Francisco who possesses the required residence qualifications, upon application and after investigation and approval by the Director of Public Health.
(2) A narcotic addict or habitual inebriate temporarily in custody.
(3) A physically defective and physically handicapped person under the age of 21 years when the parents or guardian of such person are not financially able to secure proper care or treatment and when such person's admission and treatment has been duly authorized in the manner provided by law.
(4) A prisoner confined to the City and County Jail who requires medical or surgical treatment necessitating hospitalization where such treatment cannot be furnished or supplied at such jail when any court of the City and County shall have ordered the removal of such prisoner to the San Francisco General Hospital.
(5) A person in need of immediate hospitalization on account of accident or sudden sickness or injury or mental disorder or by reason of sickness or injury caused by or arising in a public emergency or calamity or disaster.
(6) A person who has or who is suspected of having any communicable disease, or a person who is or who is suspected of being a carrier or other potential source of infectious disease.
(7) A person to be isolated in the San Francisco General Hospital by order of the Health Officer because he has or is suspected of having a communicable or infectious disease or because he is or is suspected of being a carrier of such a disease.
(8) An expectant mother who is unable to pay for her necessary care.
(9) An indigent sick person or dependent poor person from another county whose care is reimbursable by the county of residence, as provided in Section 1475 of the Health and Safety Code of the State.
(10) A City and County employee who is judged by the Retirement Board to have suffered an injury arising out of and in the course of his employment by the City and County, when hospitalization is reasonably required to cure and relieve the effects of such injury.
(11) Members of the San Francisco Disaster Corps who are determined under the provisions of the State Labor Code to have suffered an injury arising out of and in the course of performance of duties as members of the San Francisco Disaster Corps, when hospitalization is reasonably required to cure and relieve the effects of such injury.
(12) Any authorized volunteer or trainee assigned by the Director of Public Health, or Administrator of an institution and (a) assisting in the care and treatment of patients in any of the said institutions, or (b) assisting under supervision in any Bureau, Division, or Service of the Department of Public Health, who is judged by the Retirement Board to have suffered injury while actually serving as such volunteer in any of such services, when hospitalization is reasonably required to cure or relieve the effects of such injury.
(13) Any juvenile committed to Log Cabin Ranch School or in custody in the Youth Guidance Center who requires medical or surgical treatment which cannot be furnished in such facility and who is adjudged by the Retirement Board to have suffered injury while actually performing duties assigned by the Chief Probation Officer of the Juvenile Court when hospitalization is reasonably required to cure or relieve the effects of such injury.
(14) Any authorized volunteer including student interns assigned by the Chief Probation Officer of the Juvenile Court and rendering volunteer service at the Youth Guidance Center or Log Cabin Ranch School who is adjudged by the Retirement Board to have suffered injury while actually performing volunteer service, when hospitalization is reasonably required to cure or relieve the effect of such injury.
(15) Any juvenile committed to Log Cabin Ranch School or in custody of Youth Guidance Center who requires medical or surgical treatment which cannot be furnished in such facility when the Juvenile Court shall have ordered removal of such juvenile person.
(16) A person sent by an Agency of the United States Government under conditions as may be contracted for between the Director of Public Health and the United States Government.
(17) A person recommended for admission to special investigative units operated solely with funds of State and/or Federal Government, pursuant to agreement therewith, and such persons shall not be subjected to a financial investigation and shall not be required to have residential qualifications.
(18) A person in need of services not readily available elsewhere in the City and County of San Francisco.
(19) Any patient who becomes mentally ill while in the San Francisco General Hospital may be transferred to the Psychiatric In-patient Service, with the approval of the Chief of that Service or his duly authorized representative.
(20) Any person suspected of being mentally ill who is in the City Prison or County Jail. Such person may be examined in those places or in any appropriate facility of the Department upon an order of any judge of the Superior and Municipal Courts for observation, examination or treatment and for return to the Prison or Jail as medically indicated.
(21) Any resident of the City and County of San Francisco suffering from mental illness may be admitted as a voluntary patient to the Psychiatric Service. Financial investigation shall be made under the rules and regulations of the Department of Public Health. Such a patient must be, at the time of making application for admission, in such a state of mind as to render him competent to make such application. Any person so received and detained shall be deemed a voluntary patient. Such patient shall not be detained in said Psychiatric Service for more than seven days after having given notice in writing of his desire to leave to the person in charge, and in no case shall a patient remain for a period longer than 90 days.
(22) Any mentally disturbed person brought into the Psychiatric Service by the police, City ambulance, relatives or friends, transferred from any of the institutions of the City and County may be accepted for temporary hospitalization on the certification by the Chief of Psychiatric Service, or his duly authorized representative, that emergency detention is necessary. The person may be cared for and treated for a period not to exceed 72 hours, excluding Sundays and nonjudicial days at which time such person shall be discharged unless a petition of mental illness is presented to a judge of the Superior Court and the Court issues an order for detention of such person, or unless he requests treatment pursuant to Subsection (21) above.
Provided, nothing in Subsections (1) to (22) inclusive hereof shall be construed as restraining the Director of Public Health from obeying or carrying out or giving effect to any law that may exist or be hereafter passed, relating to the hospitalization of patients in County institutions.
(Added by Ord. 75-66, App. 4/11/66)