Section 16-36-1.5-5 - Consent by mentally incompetent patient(a) This section applies to a patient who:(1) receives mental health services; and(2) is mentally incompetent.(b) A patient described in subsection (a) shall provide consent for mental health treatment through the informed consent of one (1) of the following:(1) The patient's legal guardian or other court appointed representative.(2) The patient's health care representative under IC 16-36-1.(3) An attorney in fact for health care appointed under IC 30-5-5-16.(4) The patient's health care representative acting in accordance with the patient's psychiatric advance directive as expressed in a psychiatric advance directive executed under IC 16-36-1.7.(5) The patient's health care representative conferred under IC 16-36-7.Amended by P.L. 50-2021,SEC. 38, eff. 7/1/2021.As added by P.L. 145-1996, SEC.3. Amended by P.L. 149-1997, SEC.4; P.L. 16-2004, SEC.2.