Section 23517 Of Article 3. Youthful Drunk Driver Visitation Program From California Vehicle Code >> Division 11.5. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 3.
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. (a) To the extent that personnel and facilities are made
available to the court, the court may include a requirement for
supervised visitation by the defendant or ward to all, or any, of the
following:
(1) A trauma facility, as defined in Section 1798.160 of the
Health and Safety Code, a base hospital designated pursuant to
Section 1798.100 or 1798.101 of the Health and Safety Code, or a
general acute care hospital having a basic emergency medical services
special permit issued pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 1277 of
the Health and Safety Code that regularly receives victims of
vehicle accidents, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a
Friday or Saturday night to observe appropriate victims of vehicle
accidents involving drinking drivers, under the supervision of any of
the following:
(A) A registered nurse trained in providing emergency trauma care
or prehospital advanced life support.
(B) An emergency room physician.
(C) An emergency medical technician-paramedic or an emergency
medical technician II.
(2) A facility that cares for advanced alcoholics, such as a
chemical dependency recovery hospital, as defined in Section 1250.3
of the Health and Safety Code, to observe persons in the terminal
stages of alcoholism or drug abuse, under the supervision of
appropriately licensed medical personnel.
(3) If approved by the county coroner, the county coroner's office
or the county morgue to observe appropriate victims of vehicle
accidents involving drinking drivers, under the supervision of the
coroner or a deputy coroner.
(b) As used in this section, "appropriate victims" means victims
whose condition is determined by the visitation supervisor to
demonstrate the results of accidents involving drinking drivers
without being excessively gruesome or traumatic to the probationer.
(c) If persons trained in counseling or substance abuse are made
available to the court, the court may coordinate the visitation
program or the visitations at any facility designated in subdivision
(a) through those persons.
(d) Any visitation shall include, before any observation of
victims or disabled persons by the probationer, a comprehensive
counseling session with the visitation supervisor at which the
supervisor shall explain and discuss the experiences which may be
encountered during the visitation in order to ascertain whether the
visitation is appropriate for the probationer.
(e) If at any time, whether before or during a visitation, the
supervisor of the probationer determines that the visitation may be
or is traumatic or otherwise inappropriate for the probationer, or is
uncertain whether the visitation may be traumatic or inappropriate,
the visitation shall be terminated without prejudice to the
probationer.