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§ 20-47-201. Purpose — Policy - (a) The purpose of this subchapter is to enable the...
§ 20-47-202. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Administrator” means the chief...
§ 20-47-203. Habeas corpus - Nothing in this subchapter shall in any way restrict the...
§ 20-47-204. Voluntary admissions - The following shall apply to voluntary admissions of persons with...
§ 20-47-205. Jurisdiction of circuit court - (a) The circuit courts of this state shall have exclusive...
§ 20-47-207. Involuntary admission — Original petition - (a) Written Petition — Venue. Any person having reason to...
§ 20-47-208. Role of prosecuting attorney - (a) (1) It shall be the duty of the prosecuting...
§ 20-47-209. Initial hearing — Failure to appear — Exceptions from appearance requirement - (a) If the person named in the original petition is...
§ 20-47-210. Immediate confinement — Initial evaluation and treatment - (a) Whenever it appears that a person is of danger...
§ 20-47-211. Notification of rights - Along with the copy of the petition and the copy...
§ 20-47-212. Appointment of counsel - (a) If it appears to the court that the person...
§ 20-47-213. Evaluation — When performed and by whom — Transportation to place of evaluation - (a) If the person is transported to a hospital or...
§ 20-47-214. Forty-five-day involuntary admission — Hearing - (a) (1) Within the period specified in § 20-47-205, a...
§ 20-47-215. Additional periods of involuntary admission — Petitions — Hearing - (a) Generally. (1) Additional one-hundred-eighty-day involuntary admission orders may be...
§ 20-47-216. Continuances - Continuances requested by either party for any hearing provided for...
§ 20-47-217. Appeals - All involuntary admission orders authorized in this subchapter shall be...
§ 20-47-218. Treatment - (a) At all steps of the involuntary admission proceeding, the...
§ 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...
§ 20-47-220. Fundamental rights - (a) No person receiving treatment for mental illness shall be...
§ 20-47-221. Patient or client advocate - (a) (1) The Director of the Division of Aging, Adult,...
§ 20-47-222. Transfer and admission of residents who become ill in another state - The Director of the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral...
§ 20-47-223. Admission not adjudication of incapacity - No person admitted voluntarily or involuntarily to a receiving facility...
§ 20-47-224. Conversion from involuntary to voluntary status - (a) At any time during the involuntary admission period, a...
§ 20-47-225. Liability for charges - (a) Notwithstanding any statute enacted before January 1, 2011, receiving...
§ 20-47-226. Forms - (a) The Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts...
§ 20-47-227. Exclusion from liability - No officer, physician, or other person shall be held civilly...
§ 20-47-228. Assurance of compliance - (a) To assure compliance under this subchapter, the Division of...
§ 20-47-229. Restraint of Arkansas State Hospital patient - (a) If necessary for security, an Arkansas State Hospital patient...
§ 20-47-230. Return of detained or involuntarily admitted person to state of residence — Reciprocal agreements - (a) The Department of Human Services may enter into a...