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Section 426.005 - Definitions for ORS 426.005 to 426.390. - (a) "Community mental health program director" means the director of...
Section 426.020 - Superintendent; chief medical officer. - (2) If the superintendent is not a physician, the Director...
Section 426.060 - Commitment to Oregon Health Authority; powers of authority; placement; transfer. - (2) The following is a nonexclusive list of powers the...
Section 426.070 - Initiation; notification required; recommendation to court; citation. - (a) Two persons; (b) The local health officer; or (c)...
Section 426.072 - Care while in custody; responsibilities of licensed independent practitioner; rules. - (a) By a warrant of detention under ORS 426.070; (b)...
Section 426.074 - Investigation; procedure; content; report. - (1) If the person alleged to have a mental illness...
Section 426.075 - Notice and records of treatment prior to hearing; procedures. - (1) The court shall be fully advised of all drugs...
Section 426.095 - Commitment hearing; postponement; right to cross-examine; admissibility of investigation report. - (1) The hearing may be held in a hospital, the...
Section 426.100 - Advice of court; appointment of legal counsel; costs; representation of state’s interest. - (a) The reason for being brought before the court; (b)...
Section 426.110 - Appointment of examiners; qualifications; costs. - (1) The judge shall appoint one qualified examiner. If requested,...
Section 426.120 - Examination report; rules. - (a) Examine the person as to mental condition. (b) Initiate...
Section 426.123 - Observation of person in custody; warning; evidence. - (2) The warning described under subsection (1) of this section...
Section 426.125 - Qualifications and requirements for conditional release. - (1) A court may only order conditional release if all...
Section 426.127 - Outpatient commitment. - (1) The Oregon Health Authority may only place a person...
Section 426.129 - Community liaison. - Note: 426.129 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly...
Section 426.130 - Court determination of mental illness; discharge; release for voluntary treatment; conditional release; commitment; assisted outpatient treatment; prohibition relating to firearms; period of commitment. - (a) Is a person with mental illness based upon clear...
Section 426.133 - Assisted outpatient treatment. - (2) A court may issue an order requiring a person...
Section 426.140 - Place of confinement; attendant. - (2) A person alleged to have a mental illness who...
Section 426.150 - Transportation to treatment facility. - (2) The committing judge, upon approval of the examining physicians...
Section 426.155 - Release of information about person held in custody pending commitment proceeding or while committed or recommitted. - (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS 179.495, 179.505 or 192.355...
Section 426.160 - Disclosure of record of commitment proceeding. - (a) The court shall, pursuant to rules adopted by the...
Section 426.180 - Emergency commitment of individuals in Indian country. - (2) As used in this section and ORS 426.200 and...
Section 426.220 - Voluntary admission; leave of absence; notice to parent or guardian. - (2) Any person voluntarily admitted to a state hospital pursuant...
Section 426.225 - Voluntary admission to state hospital of committed person; examination by licensed independent practitioner. - (2) If any person who has been committed to the...
Section 426.228 - Custody; authority of peace officers and other individuals; transporting to facility; reports; examination of person. - (a) The reason for custody; (b) The date, time and...
Section 426.231 - Hold by licensed independent practitioner; when authorized; statement required. - (a) The licensed independent practitioner believes the person is dangerous...
Section 426.232 - Emergency admission; notice; limit of hold. - (a) Detain the person and cause the person to be...
Section 426.233 - Authority of community mental health program director and of other individuals; costs of transportation. - (A) Is dangerous to self or to any other person...
Section 426.234 - Duties of professionals at facility where person admitted; notification; duties of court. - (a) Inform the person of the person’s right to representation...
Section 426.235 - Transfer between hospital and nonhospital facilities. - (2) A person in custody at a hospital may be...
Section 426.236 - Rules. - Note: See note under 426.228.
Section 426.237 - Prehearing detention; duties of community mental health program director; certification for treatment; court proceedings. - (a) Recommend, in an investigation report as provided in ORS...
Section 426.238 - Classifying facilities. - Note: See note under 426.228.
Section 426.241 - Payment of care, custody and treatment costs; denial of payment; rules. - (2) If any person is admitted to or detained in...
Section 426.250 - Payment of costs related to commitment proceedings. - (1) Any physician or qualified professional recommended by the Oregon...
Section 426.273 - Trial visits. - (2) When in the opinion of the authority, the committed...
Section 426.275 - Effect of failure to adhere to condition of placement. - (1) If the individual responsible under this subsection determines that...
Section 426.278 - Distribution of copies of conditions for outpatient commitment or trial visit. - (1) The committed person; (2) The community mental health program...
Section 426.295 - Judicial determination of competency; restoration of competency. - (2) Upon petition of a person committed to a state...
Section 426.297 - Payment of expenses for proceeding under ORS 426.295. - (2) The expenses of the proceeding under ORS 426.295 (3)...
Section 426.300 - Discharge of committed persons; application for assistance on behalf of committed person. - (2) The authority may sign applications for public assistance, as...
Section 426.301 - Release of committed person; certification of continued mental illness; service of certificate; content; period of further commitment; effect of failure to protest further commitment. - (2) The certification shall be served upon the person by...
Section 426.307 - Court hearing; continuance; attorney; examination; determination of mental illness; order of further commitment; period of commitment. - (1) The hearing shall be conducted as promptly as possible...
Section 426.310 - Reimbursement of county expenses for commitment proceedings involving nonresidents. - (2) If a person alleged to have a mental illness...
Section 426.330 - Presentation and payment of claims. - (2) Against the funds appropriated to cover the cost of...
Section 426.335 - Limitations on liability. - (1) The following individuals may not in any way be...
Section 426.370 - Withholding information obtained in certain commitment or admission investigations. - (1) That information was not included in its investigation report...
Section 426.385 - Rights of committed persons. - (a) Communicate freely in person and by reasonable access to...
Section 426.415 - Licensing of persons who may order and oversee use of restraint and seclusion in facilities providing mental health treatment to individuals under 21 years of age; rules. - (2) A license may not be issued or renewed under...
Section 426.490 - Policy. - Note: 426.490 to 426.500 were enacted into law by the...
Section 426.495 - Definitions for ORS 426.490 to 426.500; rules. - (a) "Case manager" means a person who works on a...
Section 426.500 - Powers and duties of Oregon Health Authority; rules. - (1) Adopt rules for the administration of ORS 426.490 to...
Section 426.502 - Definitions for ORS 426.502 to 426.508. - (1) "Authority" means the Oregon Health Authority. (2) "Community housing"...
Section 426.504 - Power of Oregon Health Authority to develop community housing for persons with chronic mental illness; sale of community housing; conditions. - (2) The authority may dispose of community housing acquired under...
Section 426.506 - Community Mental Health Housing Fund; Community Housing Trust Account; report. - (2) The Community Mental Health Housing Fund shall be administered...
Section 426.508 - Sale of F. H. Dammasch State Hospital; fair market value; redevelopment of property; property reserved for community housing. - (2)(a) Notwithstanding ORS 270.100 to 270.190, and except as provided...
Section 426.650 - Voluntary admission to state institution; rules. - (2) Any person voluntarily admitted to a state facility pursuant...
Section 426.675 - Determination of sexually dangerous persons; custody pending sentencing; hearing; sentencing; rules. - (2) If the facility reports to the court that the...
Section 426.680 - Trial visits for probationer. - (a) The trial visit is not inconsistent with the terms...
Section 426.701 - Commitment of "extremely dangerous" person with qualifying mental disorder; requirements for conditional release; rules. - (a) A person is "extremely dangerous" if the person: (A)...
Section 426.702 - Discharge from commitment of extremely dangerous person with qualifying mental disorder; requirements for further commitment; protest and hearing. - (b) The board may additionally certify that the person cannot...