Each resident client receiving mental health services shall have the right to prompt treatment pursuant to an individualized treatment plan and consistent with the least drastic means principle.
History: 1953 Comp., § 34-2A-6, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 279, § 6.
Law reviews. — For article, "Treating Children Under the New Mexico Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code," see 10 N.M.L. Rev. 279 (1980).
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 43 - Commitment Procedures
Article 1 - Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Section 43-1-1 - Mental condition of criminal defendants; evaluation; treatment.
Section 43-1-4 - Legal representation of clients.
Section 43-1-6 - Personal rights of residential clients.
Section 43-1-7 - Right to treatment.
Section 43-1-8 - Right to habilitation.
Section 43-1-9 - Individualized treatment or habilitation plans.
Section 43-1-10 - Emergency mental health evaluation and care.
Section 43-1-11 - Commitment of adults for thirty-day period.
Section 43-1-12 - Extended commitment of adults.
Section 43-1-13 - Involuntary commitment of developmentally disabled adults to residential care.
Section 43-1-14 - Voluntary admission to residential treatment or habilitation.
Section 43-1-15 - Consent to treatment; adult clients.
Section 43-1-16 to 43-1-18 - Repealed.
Section 43-1-19 - Disclosure of information.
Section 43-1-20 - Special commissioner.
Section 43-1-21 - Convalescent status; rehospitalization.
Section 43-1-22 - Transportation.
Section 43-1-23 - Violation of clients' rights.