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Title 41 - Public Health
Chapter 21 - Individuals With Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability
Persons in Need of Mental Treatment
- § 41-21-61. Definitions.
- § 41-21-63. Commitment proceedings; jurisdiction of chancery court and circuit court.
- § 41-21-65. Affidavit for commitment; simplified affidavit form; penalty for filing intentionally false affidavit or filing affidavit in bad faith.
- § 41-21-67. Person to be taken into custody; community mental health center as first point of entry for screening and treatment; referral to crisis intervention team; appointment of examining physicians, or physician and psychologist, nurse practitioner or physician assistant; appointment of attorney; emergency patient status; notification to Department of Human Services of possible danger to minor child under certain circumstances.
- § 41-21-68. Establishment of regional holding facilities for the treatment and holding of individuals for the purpose of civil commitment.
- § 41-21-69. Examination by physicians or physician and psychologist, nurse practitioner or physician assistant; presence of attorney.
- § 41-21-71. Procedure after examination; release or confinement pending hearing.
- § 41-21-73. Procedures for hearing; evidence; witnesses; commitment; disposition and findings.
- § 41-21-74. Requirements for outpatient commitments.
- § 41-21-75. [Reserved]
- § 41-21-76. Waiver of rights by respondent.
- § 41-21-77. Commitment to state hospital or Veterans Administration facility.
- § 41-21-79. Payment of costs.
- § 41-21-81. Twenty days’ observation, diagnosis and treatment; notice of need for further treatment; right to hearing on need for further treatment.
- § 41-21-82. Report prior to termination of initial commitment or discharge.
- § 41-21-83. Hearing on need for further treatment.
- § 41-21-85. Payment of costs of hearing on need for further treatment.
- § 41-21-87. Discharge at behest of director of treatment facility.
- § 41-21-88. Release of individual acquitted on the ground of insanity and ordered confined to psychiatric hospital or institution; notice of release to be given to certain individuals.
- § 41-21-89. Discharge at behest of patient, attorney, relative or guardian.
- § 41-21-91. Deportation of nonresidents.
- § 41-21-93. Warrant for patient absent without authorization.
- § 41-21-95. Payment of costs incurred in transporting discharged patients home or returning patients on unauthorized leave.
- § 41-21-97. Confidentiality of hospital records and information; exceptions.
- § 41-21-99. Continued care of patients.
- § 41-21-101. Admissions and commitments not adjudication of incompetency.
- § 41-21-102. Patients’ rights.
- § 41-21-103. Voluntary admissions for treatment.
- § 41-21-105. Civil and criminal immunity.
- § 41-21-107. Criminal offenses.
- § 41-21-109. Rehabilitation facilities for adolescents with mental illness or with an intellectual disability; establishment.
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