§ 33-8-103. Children as Priority Population
Children with serious emotional disturbances are a priority population for the department’s mental health services and supports. Children with developmental disabilities are a priority population for the department’s developmental disabilities services and supports. The department shall set the array of services and supports for these priority populations annually in its plan. The state will fund […]
§ 33-8-104. Emancipated Children — Rights and Responsibilities Under This Title
Children who are emancipated by marriage, court order, or in any other way recognized by law in the state have all the rights and responsibilities of adults under this title, except to the extent those rights are restricted by court order. The parent of an emancipated child shall be treated as the parent of an […]
§ 33-8-105. Interagency Plans for Transition to Adult Services
Mental health and developmental disabilities service providers shall prepare interagency plans to assure that persons seventeen (17) years of age in state custody who will continue to need services and supports in adulthood can make a smooth transition to adult services. The plan should take into account the requirements of other state and federal laws […]
§ 33-7-102. Credit Toward Sentence — Release
Whenever a person is hospitalized or receives evaluation or treatment services under this chapter in connection with a criminal charge or conviction, wherever incarcerated, the person shall receive credit toward the satisfaction of the sentence for the time spent in the custody of the commissioner. When a person has been transferred from the department of […]
§ 33-7-103. Judicial Hospitalization Order as Transfer of Custody
Without regard to its wording, any court order of hospitalization in a hospital or unit of a hospital shall be considered in law as a transfer of the person to the custody of the commissioner.
§ 33-7-104. Admissions to a State-Owned or Operated Facility
Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, all admissions or transfers to a state-owned or operated hospital or treatment resource under this chapter shall be subject to available suitable accommodations as defined in § 33-1-101, and no admission to a state-owned or operated hospital or treatment resource under this chapter shall occur until the commissioner […]
§ 33-7-201. Creation of Forensic Services Units
The commissioner shall operate in the state hospitals secure facilities, known as forensic services units, necessary for persons with mental illness who are eligible for admission to the units under this title.
§ 33-7-202. Initiation of Commitment Proceedings — Findings Required
If the commissioner authorizes the transfer of a voluntary service recipient with mental illness to a forensic services unit, the chief officer of the receiving facility shall initiate commitment proceedings under chapter 6, part 5 of this title. In the proceedings the court shall determine, in addition to the findings required by chapter 6, part […]
§ 33-7-203. Discharge From Forensic Services Unit
When a person in a forensic services unit no longer meets the standards under which the person was admitted to the unit, the chief officer shall cause the person to be discharged or to be returned to the hospital, division or facility from which the person was transferred or to be transferred to another appropriate […]
§ 33-7-301. Evaluation of Accused Believed Incompetent to Stand Trial — Judicial Hospitalization Proceedings — Recovery Report
When a defendant charged with a criminal offense is believed to be incompetent to stand trial, or there is a question about the defendant’s mental capacity at the time of the commission of the crime, the criminal, circuit, or general sessions court judge may, upon the judge’s own motion or upon petition by the district […]