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§ 41-21-35. Legal settlement of persons with mental illness and persons with an intellectual disability - The rule as to the legal settlement of paupers shall...
Persons in Need of Mental Treatment
§ 41-21-61. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-21-61 through 41-21-107, unless the context...
§ 41-21-67. Person to be taken into custody; community mental health center as first point of entry for pre-evaluation screening and treatment; referral to crisis intervention team; appointment of examining physicians, or physician and psychologist,... - In any county in which a Crisis Intervention Team has...
§ 41-21-70. Development of standards for training of psychiatrists and psychologists to perform mental examinations ordered under Section 99-13-11 and MRCrP 12; publication of list of psychiatrists and psychologists so trained - The Department of Mental Health shall develop standards for the...
§ 41-21-71. Procedure after examination; release or confinement pending hearing - If, as a result of the examination, the appointed examiners...
§ 41-21-73. Procedures for hearing; evidence; witnesses; commitment; disposition and findings - Alternatives to commitment to inpatient care may include, but shall...
§ 41-21-76. Waiver of rights by respondent - The respondent in any involuntary commitment proceeding held pursuant to...
§ 41-21-77. Commitment to state hospital or Veterans Administration facility - If admission is ordered at a treatment facility, the sheriff,...
§ 41-21-79. Payment of costs - The costs incidental to the court proceedings including, but not...
§ 41-21-81. Twenty days' observation, diagnosis and treatment; notice of need for further treatment; right to hearing on need for further treatment - If at any time within twenty (20) days after admission...
§ 41-21-82. Report prior to termination of initial commitment or discharge - Prior to the termination of the initial commitment order, the...
§ 41-21-83. Hearing on need for further treatment - If a hearing is requested as provided in Section 41-21-74,...
§ 41-21-85. Payment of costs of hearing on need for further treatment - All costs of the hearing or appeal under Section 41-21-83,...
§ 41-21-88. Release of individual acquitted on the ground of insanity and ordered confined to psychiatric hospital or institution; notice of release to be given to certain individuals - A person committed pursuant to Section 99-13-7 shall not be...
§ 41-21-89. Discharge at behest of patient, attorney, relative or guardian - Nothing in Sections 41-21-61 through 41-21-107 shall preclude any patient,...
§ 41-21-91. Deportation of nonresidents - The director of the treatment facility may transport any person...
§ 41-21-93. Warrant for patient absent without authorization - If any such patient admitted or committed by a court...
§ 41-21-95. Payment of costs incurred in transporting discharged patients home or returning patients on unauthorized leave - Costs of returning a patient who has left without authorization...
§ 41-21-97. Confidentiality of hospital records and information; exceptions - The hospital records of and information pertaining to patients at...
§ 41-21-99. Continued care of patients - The director shall obtain all the available facts relative to...
§ 41-21-101. Admissions and commitments not adjudication of incompetency - No admission or commitment to a treatment facility under Sections...
§ 41-21-104. Continuing jurisdiction of court over person committed to inpatient or outpatient treatment for one year after treatment completed; recommitment - The court shall have continuing jurisdiction over a person committed...
§ 41-21-107. Criminal offenses - Any person who conspires unlawfully to cause, or unlawfully causes,...
§ 41-21-109. Rehabilitation facilities for adolescents with mental illness or with an intellectual disability; establishment - Those facilities shall be on property owned by the Department...
Crisis Intervention Teams
§ 41-21-131. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-21-131 through 41-21-143, the following terms...
Crisis Intervention Mental Health Fund
§ 41-21-151. Crisis Intervention Mental Health Fund created; purpose; distribution of monies from fund; fund to be a continuing fund; components of fund - There is created in the State Treasury a special interest-bearing...
Screening, Testing, and Investigation by State Board of Health -