Chapter 123 - MENTAL HEALTH
- Section 123:1 - Definitions
- Section 123:2 - Mental health; regulations
- Section 123:2A - Factors to be considered when contracting for services in geographically-isolated communities
- Section 123:3 - Transfers; notice; emergencies
- Section 123:4 - Periodic review; notice
- Section 123:5 - Commitment or retention hearings; right to counsel; medical examination; notice
- Section 123:6 - Retention of persons; validity of orders; hearing
- Section 123:7 - Commitment and retention of dangerous persons; petition; notice; hearing
- Section 123:8 - Proceedings to commit dangerous persons; notice; hearing; orders; jurisdiction
- Section 123:8B - Treatment of committed persons with antipsychotic medication; petition; notice; hearing; guardian
- Section 123:9 - Review of matters of law; application for discharge; notice; hearing
- Section 123:10 - Voluntary admissions; consultation with attorney; discharge; outpatients; veterans
- Section 123:11 - Voluntary admissions; withdrawal; notice; examination; retention
- Section 123:12 - Emergency restraint of dangerous persons; application for hospitalization; examination
- Section 123:13 - Transfer of dangerous males to Bridgewater state hospital; retention period; further commitment; procedure
- Section 123:14 - Transfers from Bridgewater state hospital to other facilities
- Section 123:15 - Competence to stand trial or criminal responsibility; examination; period of observation; reports; hearing; commitment; delinquents
- Section 123:16 - Hospitalization of persons incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of mental illness; examination period; commitment; hearing; restrictions; dismissal of criminal charges
- Section 123:17 - Periodic review of incompetence to stand trial; petition; hearing; continued treatment; defense to charges; release
- Section 123:18 - Hospitalization of mentally ill prisoners; examination; reports; hearing; commitment; voluntary admission; reduction of sentence; discharge
- Section 123:18A - Contributions towards cost of appointed counsel
- Section 123:19 - Parties or witnesses; determination of mental condition
- Section 123:20 - Extradition of mental institution escapees
- Section 123:21 - Transportation of mentally ill persons; restraint
- Section 123:22 - Civil liability of physicians, qualified psychologists, qualified psychiatric nurse mental health clinical specialists, police officers and licensed independent clinical social workers
- Section 123:23 - Telephone access rights; mail rights; visitation rights; legal and civil rights; suspension of rights; notice of rights
- Section 123:23A - Competent interpreter services in hospitals which provide acute psychiatric services
- Section 123:24 - Legal capacity of persons admitted or committed
- Section 123:25 - Guardian or conservator; appointment
- Section 123:26 - Deposit of funds held in trust for inpatients or residents; unclaimed funds and personal property; fiduciaries
- Section 123:27 - Administration of estate of deceased inpatient or resident
- Section 123:28 - Violent or unnatural death of patients; notice to district attorney
- Section 123:29 - Instruction and education; work programs; sale of work products
- Section 123:30 - Unauthorized absence of patients; notification of police, et al.; return
- Section 123:31 - Medicine and drugs; indigent patients
- Section 123:32 - Charges for care of persons in facilities
- Section 123:33 - Expenses of apprehension, examination, hearing, commitment or delivery; certification; audit; payment; fees
- Section 123:34 - Commitment or transfer to veterans administration or other federal agency
- Section 123:35 - Commitment of alcoholics and substance abusers
- Section 123:36 - Records; inspection
- Section 123:36A - Court records of examination or commitment; privacy
- Section 123:36B - Duty of licensed mental health professional to warn potential victims
- Section 123:36C - Transmission of committed person's name and nonclinical identification information to department of criminal justice information services; committed person prohibited from being issued firearm identification card or license to carry