62A-15-622. Abduction of patient — Penalty. Any person who abducts a patient who is in the custody of a local mental health authority, or induces any patient to elope or escape from that custody, or attempts to do so, or aids or assists therein, is guilty of a class B misdemeanor, in addition to liability […]
62A-15-623. Criminal’s escape — Penalty. Any person committed to the state hospital under the provisions of Title 77, Chapter 15, Inquiry into Sanity of Defendant, or Chapter 16a, Commitment and Treatment of Persons with a Mental Illness, who escapes or leaves the state hospital without proper legal authority is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. […]
62A-15-624. Violations of this part — Penalty. Any person who willfully and knowingly violates any provision of this part, except where another penalty is provided by law, is guilty of a class C misdemeanor. Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 8, 2002 Special Session 5Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 8, 2002 Special Session 5
Effective 7/1/2021 62A-15-625. Voluntary admission of adults. (1) A local mental health authority, a designee of a local mental health authority, or another mental health facility may admit for observation, diagnosis, care, and treatment an adult who applies for voluntary admission and who has a mental illness or exhibits the symptoms of a mental illness. […]
Effective 9/1/2021 62A-15-626. Release from commitment. (1) (a) Subject to Subsection (1)(b), a local mental health authority or the mental health authority’s designee shall release from commitment any individual who, in the opinion of the local mental health authority or the mental health authority’s designee, has recovered or no longer meets the criteria specified in […]
Effective 5/4/2022 62A-15-627. Release of voluntary adult — Exceptions. (1) Except as provided in Subsection (2), a mental health facility shall immediately release an adult patient: (a) who is voluntarily admitted, as described in Section 62A-15-625, and who requests release, verbally or in writing; or (b) whose release is requested in writing by the patient’s […]
Effective 5/8/2018 62A-15-628. Involuntary commitment — Procedures. (1) An adult may not be involuntarily committed to the custody of a local mental health authority except under the following provisions: (a) emergency procedures for temporary commitment upon medical or designated examiner certification, as provided in Subsection 62A-15-629(1)(a); (b) emergency procedures for temporary commitment without endorsement of […]
Effective 5/4/2022 62A-15-629. Temporary commitment — Requirements and procedures — Rights. (1) An adult shall be temporarily, involuntarily committed to a local mental health authority upon: (a) a written application that: (i) is completed by a responsible individual who has reason to know, stating a belief that the adult, due to mental illness, is likely […]
62A-15-630. Mental health commissioners. The court may appoint a mental health commissioner to assist in conducting commitment proceedings in accordance with Section 78A-5-107. Amended by Chapter 3, 2008 General Session
Effective 5/14/2019 62A-15-630.4. Assisted outpatient treatment services. (1) The local mental health authority or its designee shall provide assisted outpatient treatment, which shall include: (a) case management; and (b) an individualized treatment plan, created with input from the proposed patient when possible. (2) A court order for assisted outpatient treatment does not create independent authority […]
Effective 5/5/2021 62A-15-630.5. Assisted outpatient treatment proceedings. (1) A responsible individual who has credible knowledge of an adult’s mental illness and the condition or circumstances that have led to the adult’s need for assisted outpatient treatment may file, in the district court in the county where the proposed patient resides or is found, a written […]
Effective 5/4/2022 62A-15-631. Involuntary commitment under court order — Examination — Hearing — Power of court — Findings required — Costs. (1) A responsible individual who has credible knowledge of an adult’s mental illness and the condition or circumstances that have led to the adult’s need to be involuntarily committed may initiate an involuntary commitment […]
Effective 5/5/2021 62A-15-632. Circumstances under which conditions justifying initial involuntary commitment shall be considered to continue to exist. (1) When an individual is involuntarily committed to the custody of a local mental health authority under Subsection 62A-15-631(16), the conditions justifying commitment under that Subsection shall be considered to continue to exist for purposes of continued […]
62A-15-633. Persons eligible for care or treatment by federal agency — Continuing jurisdiction of state courts. (1) If an individual committed pursuant to Section 62A-15-631 is eligible for care or treatment by any agency of the United States, the court, upon receipt of a certificate from a United States agency, showing that facilities are available […]
62A-15-634. Detention pending placement in custody. Pending commitment to a local mental health authority, a patient taken into custody or ordered to be committed pursuant to this part may be detained in the patient’s home, a licensed foster home, or any other suitable facility under reasonable conditions prescribed by the local mental health authority. Except […]
Effective 5/8/2018 62A-15-635. Notice of commitment. Whenever a patient has been temporarily, involuntarily committed to a local mental health authority under Section 62A-15-629 on the application of an individual other than the patient’s legal guardian, spouse, or next of kin, the local mental health authority or a designee of the local mental health authority shall […]
62A-15-636. Periodic review — Discharge. Each local mental health authority or its designee shall, as frequently as practicable, examine or cause to be examined every person who has been committed to it. Whenever the local mental health authority or its designee determines that the conditions justifying involuntary commitment no longer exist, it shall discharge the […]
Effective 5/14/2019 62A-15-637. Release of patient to receive other treatment — Placement in more restrictive environment — Procedures. (1) A local mental health authority or a designee of a local mental health authority may conditionally release an improved patient to less restrictive treatment when: (a) the authority specifies the less restrictive treatment; and (b) the […]
62A-15-638. Reexamination of court order for commitment — Procedures — Costs. (1) Any patient committed pursuant to Section 62A-15-631 is entitled to a reexamination of the order for commitment on the patient’s own petition, or on that of the legal guardian, parent, spouse, relative, or friend, to the district court of the county in which […]
62A-15-639. Standards for care and treatment. Every patient is entitled to humane care and treatment and to medical care and treatment in accordance with the prevailing standards accepted in medical practice, psychiatric nursing practice, social work practice, and the practice of clinical psychology. Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 8, 2002 Special Session 5Renumbered and Amended […]
