C.R.S. § 23-23-108: Limitation on admissions - report - disposition of children.

The director of the Colorado children's diagnostic center shall determine whether a child referred by an institution or by a district or juvenile court shall be accepted for study and evaluation at the diagnostic center. Such determination shall be based on the adequacy and availability of local facilities, including local community mental health clinics, for such study and evaluation, the emergency nature of the referral, and the number of children currently being studied and evaluated and waiting to be studied and evaluated at the diagnostic center. Said diagnostic center upon completion of its study and evaluation in each case shall make its report in writing to said director; whereupon, the child shall forthwith be returned to the institution from which he came or committed or sentenced to the appropriate institution and removed thereto without delay.