Part 1 - TREATMENT OF THE SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL

Section 53-21-101 - Purpose
Section 53-21-102 - Definitions
Section 53-21-103 - Court records to be kept separate
Section 53-21-104 - Powers and duties of mental disabilities board of visitors
Section 53-21-105 - Certification of professional persons required
Section 53-21-106 - Certification of professional persons
Section 53-21-107 - Abuse and neglect of persons admitted to mental health facility prohibited - reporting - investigations
Section 53-21-108 through 53-21-110 - Reserved
Section 53-21-111 - Voluntary admission - content of admission form - requirements for valid admission
Section 53-21-112 - Voluntary admission of minors
Section 53-21-113 - Costs of committing a patient already voluntarily admitted - transportation costs for voluntary admission
Section 53-21-114 - Notice of rights to be given
Section 53-21-115 - Procedural rights
Section 53-21-116 - Right to be present at hearing or trial - assignment of counsel
Section 53-21-117 - Right to representation by own attorney
Section 53-21-118 - Right to examination by professional person of own choosing
Section 53-21-119 - Waiver of rights
Section 53-21-120 - Detention to be in least restrictive environment - preference for mental health facility - court relief - prehearing detention of mentally ill person prohibited
Section 53-21-121 - Petition for commitment - contents of - notice of
Section 53-21-122 - Petition for commitment - filing of - initial hearing on
Section 53-21-123 - Examination of respondent following initial hearing - recommendation of professional person
Section 53-21-124 - Detention of respondent pending hearing or trial - jail prohibited
Section 53-21-125 - Request for jury trial
Section 53-21-126 - [Effective Until 7/1/2025] Trial or hearing on petition
Section 53-21-126 - [Effective 7/1/2025] Trial or hearing on petition
Section 53-21-127 - [Effective Until 7/1/2025] Posttrial disposition
Section 53-21-127 - [Effective 7/1/2025] Posttrial disposition
Section 53-21-128 - Petition for extension of commitment period
Section 53-21-129 - Emergency situation - petition - detention
Section 53-21-130 - Transfer or commitment to mental health facility from other institutions
Section 53-21-131 - Appeal procedure
Section 53-21-132 - Cost of examination and commitment
Section 53-21-133 - Transfer to nonstate facilities
Section 53-21-134 - Receipt of nonresident person suffering from a mental disorder pending return to home state
Section 53-21-135 - Terminated
Section 53-21-136 - Terminated
Section 53-21-137 - Terminated
Section 53-21-138 - Renumbered 53-21-1201
Section 53-21-139 - Renumbered 53-21-1202
Section 53-21-140 - Use of two-way electronic audio-video communication
Section 53-21-141 - Civil and legal rights of person committed
Section 53-21-142 - Rights of persons admitted to facility
Section 53-21-143 - Right not to be fingerprinted
Section 53-21-144 - Rights concerning photographs
Section 53-21-145 - Right to be free from unnecessary or excessive medication
Section 53-21-146 - Right to be free from physical restraint and isolation
Section 53-21-147 - Right not to be subjected to experimental research
Section 53-21-148 - Right not to be subjected to hazardous treatment
Section 53-21-149 - Conditions of treatment in community facility, program, or course of treatment
Section 53-21-150 - Treatment plan - provider choice
Section 53-21-151 - Notification of noncompliance as condition for treatment plan - response
Section 53-21-152 - Department funding responsibility
Section 53-21-153 - [Repealed]
Section 53-21-154 through 53-21-160 - Reserved
Section 53-21-161 - Qualifications of professional persons
Section 53-21-162 - Establishment of patient treatment plan - patient's rights
Section 53-21-163 - Examination following commitment
Section 53-21-164 - [Repealed]
Section 53-21-165 - Records to be maintained
Section 53-21-166 - Records to be confidential - exceptions
Section 53-21-167 - Patient labor
Section 53-21-168 - Statement of rights to be furnished and posted
Section 53-21-169 - Protection and advocacy system - designation and authority
Section 53-21-170 through 53-21-179 - Reserved
Section 53-21-180 - Discharge plan
Section 53-21-181 - Discharge during or at end of initial commitment period - patient's right to referral
Section 53-21-182 - Court-ordered release to alternative placement or treatment
Section 53-21-183 - Release conditioned on receipt of outpatient care
Section 53-21-184 - Patients for whom release and discharge provisions inapplicable
Section 53-21-185 - Care and treatment following release
Section 53-21-186 - Support of patient conditionally released
Section 53-21-187 - Clothing for patients discharged or conditionally released
Section 53-21-188 - [Repealed]
Section 53-21-189 - Fact of evaluation or treatment not to be used for discrimination
Section 53-21-190 - Fact of evaluation or treatment not to be used in subsequent court proceeding - exception
Section 53-21-191 and 53-21-192 - Reserved
Section 53-21-193 - Commitment to behavioral health inpatient facilities - preference - voluntary treatment
Section 53-21-194 - Department licensure of behavioral health inpatient facilities - rulemaking authority - transfer criteria
Section 53-21-195 - Rehospitalization of patient conditionally released from inpatient treatment facilities - petition
Section 53-21-196 - Detention of conditionally released patient pending hearing
Section 53-21-197 - Hearing on rehospitalization petition - revocation of conditional release
Section 53-21-198 - Extension of conditions of release - hearing
Section 53-21-199 - Option for diversion from involuntary commitment to Montana state hospital