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TITLE 53
CHAPTER 21
Part 1
Montana Code Annotated 2023
TITLE 53. SOCIAL SERVICES AND INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER 21. MENTALLY ILL
Part 1. Treatment of the Seriously Mentally Ill
53-21-101
Purpose
53-21-102
Definitions
53-21-103
Court records to be kept separate
53-21-104
Powers and duties of mental disabilities board of visitors
53-21-105
Certification of professional persons required
53-21-106
Certification of professional persons
53-21-107
Abuse and neglect of persons admitted to mental health facility prohibited -- reporting -- investigations
53-21-108
through 53-21-110 reserved
53-21-111
Voluntary admission -- content of admission form -- requirements for valid admission
53-21-112
Voluntary admission of minors
53-21-113
Costs of committing a patient already voluntarily admitted -- transportation costs for voluntary admission
53-21-114
Notice of rights to be given
53-21-115
Procedural rights
53-21-116
Right to be present at hearing or trial -- assignment of counsel
53-21-117
Right to representation by own attorney
53-21-118
Right to examination by professional person of own choosing
53-21-119
Waiver of rights
53-21-120
Detention to be in least restrictive environment -- preference for mental health facility -- court relief -- prehearing detention of mentally ill person prohibited
53-21-121
Petition for commitment -- contents of -- notice of
53-21-122
Petition for commitment -- filing of -- initial hearing on
53-21-123
Examination of respondent following initial hearing -- recommendation of professional person
53-21-124
Detention of respondent pending hearing or trial -- jail prohibited
53-21-125
Request for jury trial
53-21-126
Trial or hearing on petition
53-21-127
Posttrial disposition
53-21-128
Petition for extension of commitment period
53-21-129
Emergency situation -- petition -- detention
53-21-130
Transfer or commitment to mental health facility from other institutions
53-21-131
Appeal procedure
53-21-132
Cost of examination and commitment
53-21-133
Transfer to nonstate facilities
53-21-134
Receipt of nonresident person suffering from a mental disorder pending return to home state
53-21-135
Terminated
53-21-136
Terminated
53-21-137
Terminated
53-21-138
Renumbered 53-21-1201
53-21-139
Renumbered 53-21-1202
53-21-140
Use of two-way electronic audio-video communication
53-21-141
Civil and legal rights of person committed
53-21-142
Rights of persons admitted to facility
53-21-143
Right not to be fingerprinted
53-21-144
Rights concerning photographs
53-21-145
Right to be free from unnecessary or excessive medication
53-21-146
Right to be free from physical restraint and isolation
53-21-147
Right not to be subjected to experimental research
53-21-148
Right not to be subjected to hazardous treatment
53-21-149
Conditions of treatment in community facility, program, or course of treatment
53-21-150
Treatment plan -- provider choice
53-21-151
Notification of noncompliance as condition for treatment plan -- response
53-21-152
Department funding responsibility
53-21-153
Repealed
53-21-154
through 53-21-160 reserved
53-21-161
Qualifications of professional persons
53-21-162
Establishment of patient treatment plan -- patient's rights
53-21-163
Examination following commitment
53-21-164
Repealed
53-21-165
Records to be maintained
53-21-166
Records to be confidential -- exceptions
53-21-167
Patient labor
53-21-168
Statement of rights to be furnished and posted
53-21-169
Protection and advocacy system -- designation and authority
53-21-170
through 53-21-179 reserved
53-21-180
Discharge plan
53-21-181
Discharge during or at end of initial commitment period -- patient's right to referral
53-21-182
Court-ordered release to alternative placement or treatment
53-21-183
Release conditioned on receipt of outpatient care
53-21-184
Patients for whom release and discharge provisions inapplicable
53-21-185
Care and treatment following release
53-21-186
Support of patient conditionally released
53-21-187
Clothing for patients discharged or conditionally released
53-21-188
Repealed
53-21-189
Fact of evaluation or treatment not to be used for discrimination
53-21-190
Fact of evaluation or treatment not to be used in subsequent court proceeding -- exception
53-21-191
and 53-21-192 reserved
53-21-193
Commitment to behavioral health inpatient facilities -- preference -- voluntary treatment
53-21-194
Department licensure of behavioral health inpatient facilities -- rulemaking authority -- transfer criteria
53-21-195
Rehospitalization of patient conditionally released from inpatient treatment facilities -- petition
53-21-196
Detention of conditionally released patient pending hearing
53-21-197
Hearing on rehospitalization petition -- revocation of conditional release
53-21-198
Extension of conditions of release -- hearing
53-21-199
Option for diversion from involuntary commitment to Montana state hospital