(a) The purpose of this chapter is to implement Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 577, which requires psychiatric hospitals and mental health facilities that provide court-ordered mental health services to be licensed by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.(b) This chapter provides definitions, and establishes licensing procedures, operational requirements, standards for voluntary agreements, enforcement procedures, fire prevention and safety requirements, and physical plant and construction requirements for private psychiatric hospitals and crisis stabilization units.(c) Compliance with this chapter does not constitute release from the requirements of other applicable federal, state, or local laws, codes, rules, regulations and ordinances. This chapter must be followed where it exceeds other codes and ordinances.26 Tex. Admin. Code § 510.1
The provisions of this §510.1 adopted to be effective January 1, 2004, 28 TexReg 5154; Chapter Transferred from Title 25, Part 1, Chapter 134 by Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 20, May 17, 2019, TexReg 2469, eff. 6/1/2019; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 46, November 15, 2024, TexReg 9285, eff. 11/21/2024