Oklahoma Statutes
Title 43A. Mental Health
§43A-1-103. Definitions.

When used in this title, unless otherwise expressly stated, or unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:

1. "Department" means the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services;
2. "Chair" means the chair of the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services;
3. "Mental illness" means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, psychological orientation or memory that significantly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life;
4. "Board" means the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services as established by the Mental Health Law;
5. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services;
6. "Indigent person" means a person who has not sufficient assets or resources to support the person and to support members of the family of the person lawfully dependent on the person for support;
7. "Facility" means any hospital, school, building, house or retreat, authorized by law to have the care, treatment or custody of an individual with mental illness, or drug or alcohol dependency, gambling addiction, eating disorders, an opioid substitution treatment program including, but not limited to, public or private hospitals, community mental health centers, clinics, satellites or facilities; provided, that facility shall not mean a child guidance center operated by the State Department of Health;
8. "Consumer" means a person under care or treatment in a facility pursuant to the Mental Health Law, or in an outpatient status;
9. "Care and treatment" means medical care and behavioral health services, as well as food, clothing and maintenance, furnished to a person;
10. Whenever in this law or in any other law, or in any rule or order made or promulgated pursuant to this law or to any other law, or in the printed forms prepared for the admission of consumers or for statistical reports, the words "insane", "insanity", "lunacy", "mentally sick", "mental disease" or "mental disorder" are used, such terms shall have equal significance to the words "mental illness";
11. "Licensed mental health professional" means:
12. "Mentally incompetent person" means any person who has been adjudicated mentally or legally incompetent by an appropriate district court;
13.a."Person requiring treatment" means a person who because of his or her mental illness or drug or alcohol dependency:
14. "Petitioner" means a person who files a petition alleging that an individual is a person requiring treatment or an assisted outpatient;
15. "Executive director" means the person in charge of a facility as defined in this section;
16. "Private hospital or facility" means any general hospital maintaining a neuro-psychiatric unit or ward, or any private hospital or facility for care and treatment of a person having a mental illness, which is not supported by the state or federal government. The term "private hospital" or "facility" shall not include nursing homes or other facilities maintained primarily for the care of elderly and disabled persons;
17. "Individualized treatment plan" means a proposal developed during the stay of an individual in a facility, under the provisions of this title, which is specifically tailored to the treatment needs of the individual. Each plan shall clearly include the following:
18. "Telemedicine" means technology-enabled health and care management and delivery systems that extend capacity and access, which includes:
19. "Recovery and recovery support" means nonclinical services that assist individuals and families to recover from alcohol or drug problems. They include social support, linkage to and coordination among allied service providers including but not limited to transportation to and from treatment or employment, employment services and job training, case management and individual services coordination, life skills education, relapse prevention, housing assistance, child care, and substance abuse education;
20. "Assisted outpatient" means a person who:
21. "Assisted outpatient treatment" means outpatient services which have been ordered by the court pursuant to a treatment plan approved by the court to treat an assisted outpatient's mental illness and to assist the person in living and functioning in the community, or to attempt to prevent a relapse or deterioration that may reasonably be predicted to result in suicide or the need for hospitalization; and
22. "Urgent recovery clinic" means a clinic that offers voluntary services aimed at the assessment and immediate stabilization of acute symptoms of mental illness, alcohol and other drug abuse, and emotional distress. Unless the person receiving treatment consents to a longer duration or unless the person is placed into emergency detention under Sections 5-206 through 5-209 of this title, no more than twenty-three (23) hours and fifty-nine (59) minutes of services may be provided to a consumer during one episode of care at an urgent recovery clinic.
Added by Laws 1953, p. 152, § 3, emerg. eff. June 3, 1953. Amended by Laws 1959, p. 185, § 1, emerg. eff. June 27, 1959; Laws 1963, c. 310, § 1, emerg. eff. June 19, 1963; Laws 1965, c. 32, § 1, emerg. eff. March 3, 1965; Laws 1965, c. 381, § 1, emerg. eff. June 29, 1965; Laws 1977, c. 145, § 2, emerg. eff. June 3, 1977; Laws 1978, c. 247, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1978; Laws 1980, c. 324, § 1, emerg. eff. June 17, 1980; Laws 1986, c. 103, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Renumbered from § 3 of this title by Laws 1986, c. 103, § 103, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Amended by Laws 1987, c. 118, § 2, operative July 1, 1987; Laws 1990, c. 51, § 23, emerg. eff. April 9, 1990; Laws 1992, c. 389, § 1, emerg. eff. June 10, 1992; Laws 2001, c. 186, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2001; Laws 2002, c. 488, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2003, c. 394, § 2; Laws 2005, c. 195, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2005; Laws 2006, c. 16, § 18, emerg. eff. March 29, 2006; Laws 2006, c. 97, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2006; Laws 2008, c. 401, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2008; Laws 2010, c. 287, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2010; Laws 2011, c. 294, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2011; Laws 2013, c. 37, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2013, c. 213, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2015, c. 161, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2015; Laws 2016, c. 177, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2016; Laws 2017, c. 246, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017; Laws 2019, c. 387, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019; Laws 2019, c. 475, § 29, eff. Nov. 1, 2019; Laws 2021, c. 293, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2021; Laws 2022, c. 297, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.
NOTE: Laws 2005, c. 150, § 1 repealed by Laws 2006, c. 16, § 19, emerg. eff. March 29, 2006.

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