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Title 37 - MENTAL HEALTH
Chapter 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF MENTAL HEALTH, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, ADDICTIVE DISEASES, AND OTHER DISABILITY SERVICES
Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 37-2-1 - Declaration of purpose
- § 37-2-2 - Definitions
- § 37-2-2.1 - Creation of Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases
- § 37-2-3 - Designation of boundaries for mental health, development disabilities, and addictive diseases regions; community service board areas
- § 37-2-4 - Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; membership; meetings; obligations
- § 37-2-4.1 - Regional mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases offices
- § 37-2-5 - Regional planning boards -- Establishing policy and direction for disability services; membership; bylaws; meetings; expenses
- § 37-2-5.1 - Regional planning boards -- Regional coordinator; staff and personnel; allocation of funds
- § 37-2-5.2 - Regional planning boards -- Duties and functions; power to contract; delegation of powers and duties; books of account
- § 37-2-6 - Community mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases service boards -- Community service board creation; membership; participation of counties; transfer of powers and duties; alternate method of establishment; bylaws; reprisals prohibited
- § 37-2-6.1 - Community service boards -- Executive director, staff, budget, facilities; powers and duties; exemption from state and local taxation
- § 37-2-6.2 - Employees whose jobs include duties or functions which became duties or functions of a community service board on July 1, 1994; rights, duties, and benefits of employees
- § 37-2-6.3 - Public body; lawsuits; debts, obligations, and liabilities
- § 37-2-6.4 - Reconstituting or converting of organizational structure; formation of new community service board
- § 37-2-6.5 - Cessation of operations by community service board; notification; continuation of operations by successor board, county board of health, or outside manager
- § 37-2-7 - Formulation and publication of state plan for disability services
- § 37-2-8 - Unification of state and area service programs
- § 37-2-9 - Coordination of disability services with related activities of other agencies and organizations
- § 37-2-9.1 - Compliance by regional planning boards and community service boards with laws as to open meetings and inspection of records; advisory boards
- § 37-2-10 - Commissioner's emergency powers upon failure of community service board to establish and administer programs
- § 37-2-11 - Allocation of available funds for services; recipients to meet minimum standards; accounting for fees generated by providers; discrimination in providing services prohibited
- § 37-2-11.1 - Venue in actions against community service board; representation by Attorney General; immunity; use of legal counsel; authority for indemnification, defense, and insurance
- § 37-2-11.2 - Access by the department, Department of Human Services, Department of Public Health, Department of Community Health, or regional office to records of any program receiving public funds; confidentiality
- § 37-2-12 - Construction of chapter to avoid conflict with federal laws
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