2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 27 - Behavioral Health
Article 65. Care and Treatment of Persons with Mental Health Disorders
Editor's note: This article was added with relocations in 2010 containing provisions of article 10 of this title. Former C.R.S. section numbers are shown in editor's notes following those sections that were relocated. For a detailed comparison of this article, see the comparative tables located in the back of the index.
Cross references: For provisions concerning home- and community-based services for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, see part 4 of article 6 of title 25.5; for liability of mental health care providers, see ยง 13-21-117.
Law reviews: For article, "Expanded Medical Screening for Public Sector Psychiatric Patients", see 13 Colo. Law. 1651 (1984); for article "Medina: Incompetence and the Right to Refuse Medication", see 14 Colo. Law. 1998 (1985); for article, "A Critique of the Model State Law on Civil Commitment of the Mentally Ill", see 14 Colo. Law. 1206 (1985); for article, "Colorado Guardianship and Conservatorship Law: A Status Report", see 16 Colo. Law. 421 (1987); for article, "The Continuing Crisis in Mental Health Care", see 18 Colo. Law. 1533 (1989); for article, "When Worlds Collide: Mentally Ill Criminal Defendants--Part II", see 29 Colo. Law. 101 (July 2000); for article, "Guidance for Attorneys When Children's Mental Health Concerns are Implicated", see 31 Colo. Law. 33 (Oct. 2002).
- Section 27-65-101. Legislative declaration.
- Section 27-65-102. Definitions.
- Section 27-65-103. Voluntary applications for mental health services - treatment of minors.
- Section 27-65-104. Rights of respondents.
- Section 27-65-105. Emergency procedure.
- Section 27-65-106. Court-ordered evaluation for persons with mental health disorders.
- Section 27-65-107. Certification for short-term treatment - procedure.
- Section 27-65-108. Extension of short-term treatment.
- Section 27-65-109. Long-term care and treatment of persons with mental health disorders procedure.
- Section 27-65-110. Termination of short-term and long-term treatment - escape.
- Section 27-65-111. Hearing procedures - jurisdiction.
- Section 27-65-112. Appeals.
- Section 27-65-113. Habeas corpus.
- Section 27-65-114. Restoration of rights.
- Section 27-65-115. Discrimination.
- Section 27-65-116. Right to treatment.
- Section 27-65-117. Rights of persons receiving evaluation, care, or treatment.
- Section 27-65-118. Administration or monitoring of medications to persons receiving care.
- Section 27-65-119. Employment of persons in a facility - rules.
- Section 27-65-120. Voting in public elections.
- Section 27-65-121. Records.
- Section 27-65-122. Request for release of information - procedures - review of a decision concerning release of information.
- Section 27-65-123. Treatment in federal facilities.
- Section 27-65-124. Transfer of persons into and out of Colorado - reciprocal agreements.
- Section 27-65-125. Criminal proceedings. (Repealed)
- Section 27-65-126. Application of this article.
- Section 27-65-127. Imposition of legal disability - deprivation of legal right - restoration.
- Section 27-65-128. Administration - rules.
- Section 27-65-129. Payment for counsel.
- Section 27-65-130. Mental health service standards for health care facilities.
- Section 27-65-131. Advisory board - service standards and rules.
