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Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare
Subtitle 3 - Mental Health
Chapter 47 - Treatment of the Mentally Ill
Subchapter 2 - Commitment and Treatment
- § 20-47-201. Purpose -- Policy
- § 20-47-202. Definitions
- § 20-47-203. Habeas corpus
- § 20-47-204. Voluntary admissions
- § 20-47-205. Jurisdiction of circuit court
- § 20-47-206. [Repealed.]
- § 20-47-207. Involuntary admission -- Original petition
- § 20-47-208. Role of prosecuting attorney
- § 20-47-209. Initial hearing -- Failure to appear -- Exceptions from appearance requirement
- § 20-47-210. Immediate confinement -- Initial evaluation and treatment
- § 20-47-211. Notification of rights
- § 20-47-212. Appointment of counsel
- § 20-47-213. Evaluation -- When performed and by whom -- Transportation to place of evaluation
- § 20-47-214. Forty-five-day involuntary admission -- Hearing
- § 20-47-215. Additional periods of involuntary admission -- Petitions -- Hearing
- § 20-47-216. Continuances
- § 20-47-217. Appeals
- § 20-47-218. Treatment
- § 20-47-219. Return of persons absent from treatment -- Noncompliance with treatment plan -- Effect on order
- § 20-47-220. Fundamental rights
- § 20-47-221. Patient or client advocate
- § 20-47-222. Transfer and admission of residents who become ill in another state
- § 20-47-223. Admission not adjudication of incapacity
- § 20-47-224. Conversion from involuntary to voluntary status
- § 20-47-225. Liability for charges
- § 20-47-226. Forms
- § 20-47-227. Exclusion from liability
- § 20-47-228. Assurance of compliance
- § 20-47-229. Restraint of Arkansas State Hospital patient
- § 20-47-230. Return of detained or involuntarily admitted person to state of residence -- Reciprocal agreements
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