Arkansas Code
Subchapter 2 - Commitment and Treatment
§ 20-47-219. Return of persons absent from treatment — Noncompliance with treatment plan — Effect on order

(a) If any person involuntarily admitted to a receiving facility or program or hospital for care pursuant to this subchapter absents himself or herself from a receiving facility or program or hospital without leave or fails to comply with the court-approved treatment plan, the person will be returned, upon the request of the person's treatment staff, to the receiving facility or program or hospital by the sheriff of the county or law enforcement officer of the city of the first class in which the individual is physically present or the hospital or receiving facility or program security personnel without further proceedings.
(b) Notification shall be provided to the court by the person's treatment staff if a person absents himself or herself without leave or fails to comply with the court-approved treatment plan.
(c) A person's noncompliance with the court-approved treatment plan or absenting himself or herself from a receiving facility or program or hospital without leave shall not vacate an order; the order shall remain in effect until abated or changed by the issuing court or until the expiration of one (1) year.

Structure Arkansas Code

Arkansas Code

Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare

Subtitle 3 - Mental Health

Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness

Subchapter 2 - Commitment and Treatment

§ 20-47-201. Purpose — Policy

§ 20-47-202. Definitions

§ 20-47-203. Habeas corpus

§ 20-47-204. Voluntary admissions

§ 20-47-205. Jurisdiction of circuit court

§ 20-47-207. Involuntary admission — Original petition

§ 20-47-208. Role of prosecuting attorney

§ 20-47-209. Initial hearing — Failure to appear — Exceptions from appearance requirement

§ 20-47-210. Immediate confinement — Initial evaluation and treatment

§ 20-47-211. Notification of rights

§ 20-47-212. Appointment of counsel

§ 20-47-213. Evaluation — When performed and by whom — Transportation to place of evaluation

§ 20-47-214. Forty-five-day involuntary admission — Hearing

§ 20-47-215. Additional periods of involuntary admission — Petitions — Hearing

§ 20-47-216. Continuances

§ 20-47-217. Appeals

§ 20-47-218. Treatment

§ 20-47-219. Return of persons absent from treatment — Noncompliance with treatment plan — Effect on order

§ 20-47-220. Fundamental rights

§ 20-47-221. Patient or client advocate

§ 20-47-222. Transfer and admission of residents who become ill in another state

§ 20-47-223. Admission not adjudication of incapacity

§ 20-47-224. Conversion from involuntary to voluntary status

§ 20-47-225. Liability for charges

§ 20-47-226. Forms

§ 20-47-227. Exclusion from liability

§ 20-47-228. Assurance of compliance

§ 20-47-229. Restraint of Arkansas State Hospital patient

§ 20-47-230. Return of detained or involuntarily admitted person to state of residence — Reciprocal agreements