Treatment of the Seriously Mentally Ill

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Section
53-21-101

Purpose

Section
53-21-102

Definitions

Section
53-21-103

Court records to be kept separate

Section
53-21-104

Powers and duties of mental disabilities board of visitors

Section
53-21-105

Certification of professional persons required

Section
53-21-106

Certification of professional persons

Section
53-21-107

Abuse and neglect of persons admitted to mental health facility prohibited -- reporting -- investigations

Section
53-21-108. through 53-21-110

reserved

Section
53-21-111

Voluntary admission -- content of admission form -- requirements for valid admission

Section
53-21-112

Voluntary admission of minors

Section
53-21-113

Costs of committing a patient already voluntarily admitted -- transportation costs for voluntary admission

Section
53-21-114

Notice of rights to be given

Section
53-21-115

Procedural rights

Section
53-21-116

Right to be present at hearing or trial -- assignment of counsel

Section
53-21-117

Right to representation by own attorney

Section
53-21-118

Right to examination by professional person of own choosing

Section
53-21-119

Waiver of rights

Section
53-21-120

Detention to be in least restrictive environment -- preference for mental health facility -- court relief -- prehearing detention of mentally ill person prohibited

Section
53-21-121

Petition for commitment -- contents of -- notice of

Section
53-21-122

Petition for commitment -- filing of -- initial hearing on

Section
53-21-123

Examination of respondent following initial hearing -- recommendation of professional person

Section
53-21-124

Detention of respondent pending hearing or trial -- jail prohibited

Section
53-21-125

Request for jury trial

Section
53-21-126

Trial or hearing on petition

Section
53-21-127

Posttrial disposition

Section
53-21-128

Petition for extension of commitment period

Section
53-21-129

Emergency situation -- petition -- detention

Section
53-21-130

Transfer or commitment to mental health facility from other institutions

Section
53-21-131

Appeal procedure

Section
53-21-132

Cost of examination and commitment

Section
53-21-133

Transfer to nonstate facilities

Section
53-21-134

Receipt of nonresident person suffering from a mental disorder pending return to home state

Section
53-21-135

Terminated

Section
53-21-136

Terminated

Section
53-21-137

Terminated

Section
53-21-138

Renumbered 53-21-1201

Section
53-21-139

Renumbered 53-21-1202

Section
53-21-140

Use of two-way electronic audio-video communication

Section
53-21-141

Civil and legal rights of person committed

Section
53-21-142

Rights of persons admitted to facility

Section
53-21-143

Right not to be fingerprinted

Section
53-21-144

Rights concerning photographs

Section
53-21-145

Right to be free from unnecessary or excessive medication

Section
53-21-146

Right to be free from physical restraint and isolation

Section
53-21-147

Right not to be subjected to experimental research

Section
53-21-148

Right not to be subjected to hazardous treatment

Section
53-21-149

Conditions of treatment in community facility, program, or course of treatment

Section
53-21-150

Treatment plan -- provider choice

Section
53-21-151

Notification of noncompliance as condition for treatment plan -- response

Section
53-21-152

Department funding responsibility

Section
53-21-153

Repealed

Section
53-21-154. through 53-21-160

reserved

Section
53-21-161

Qualifications of professional persons

Section
53-21-162

Establishment of patient treatment plan -- patient's rights

Section
53-21-163

Examination following commitment

Section
53-21-164

Repealed

Section
53-21-165

Records to be maintained

Section
53-21-166

Records to be confidential -- exceptions

Section
53-21-167

Patient labor

Section
53-21-168

Statement of rights to be furnished and posted

Section
53-21-169

Protection and advocacy system -- designation and authority

Section
53-21-170. through 53-21-179

reserved

Section
53-21-180

Discharge plan

Section
53-21-181

Discharge during or at end of initial commitment period -- patient's right to referral

Section
53-21-182

Court-ordered release to alternative placement or treatment

Section
53-21-183

Release conditioned on receipt of outpatient care

Section
53-21-184

Patients for whom release and discharge provisions inapplicable

Section
53-21-185

Care and treatment following release

Section
53-21-186

Support of patient conditionally released

Section
53-21-187

Clothing for patients discharged or conditionally released

Section
53-21-188

Repealed

Section
53-21-189

Fact of evaluation or treatment not to be used for discrimination

Section
53-21-190

Fact of evaluation or treatment not to be used in subsequent court proceeding -- exception

Sections
53-21-191. and 53-21-192

reserved

Section
53-21-193

Commitment to behavioral health inpatient facilities -- preference -- voluntary treatment

Section
53-21-194

Department licensure of behavioral health inpatient facilities -- rulemaking authority -- transfer criteria

Section
53-21-195

Rehospitalization of patient conditionally released from inpatient treatment facilities -- petition

Section
53-21-196

Detention of conditionally released patient pending hearing

Section
53-21-197

Hearing on rehospitalization petition -- revocation of conditional release

Section
53-21-198

Extension of conditions of release -- hearing

Section
53-21-199

Option for diversion from involuntary commitment to Montana state hospital