(a) A person or entity that provides treatment or other mental health services under this subchapter may impose a charge for the cost of the treatment or other mental health services rendered.
(b) A charge for the cost of treatment or other mental health services under this section may not exceed the actual cost of the treatment or other mental health services provided.
(c)
(1) The Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services shall promulgate rules establishing reasonable charges for the cost of treatment or other mental health services under this section.
(2) Rules establishing reasonable charges for the cost of treatment or other mental health services under this section shall provide for waiving or postponing the collection of the charges based on:
(A) Clinical considerations;
(B) The defendant's inability to pay; or
(C) A court determination that the defendant is wholly or partly indigent and qualifies for the appointment of an attorney under § 16-87-213.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 1 - General Provisions
Chapter 2 - Principles of Criminal Liability
Subchapter 3 - Mental Disease or Defect
§ 5-2-302. Lack of fitness to proceed generally
§ 5-2-303. Admissibility of evidence to show mental state
§ 5-2-306. Access to defendant by examiners of his or her choice
§ 5-2-307. Admissibility of statements made during examination or treatment
§ 5-2-308. Expert witnesses — Mental health examiner
§ 5-2-309. Determination of fitness to proceed
§ 5-2-310. Lack of fitness to proceed — Procedures subsequent to finding
§ 5-2-311. Lack of fitness to proceed — Motions without defendant's personal participation
§ 5-2-312. Lack of criminal responsibility — Affirmative defense
§ 5-2-313. Acquittal based on lack of criminal responsibility report
§ 5-2-314. Acquittal — Examination of defendant — Hearing
§ 5-2-315. Discharge or conditional release
§ 5-2-316. Conditional release — Subsequent discharge, modification, or revocation
§ 5-2-317. Jurisdiction and venue
§ 5-2-326. Restraint of an Arkansas State Hospital patient
§ 5-2-327. Examination of defendant — Fitness to proceed
§ 5-2-328. Examination of defendant — Affirmative defense of lack of criminal responsibility
§ 5-2-330. Examination by Division of Correction prohibited
§ 5-2-331. Cost of mental health services, examination, and treatment of defendant