Chapter 55 - Protective service system

Section 55.001 - Declaration of policy
Section 55.01 - Definitions
Section 55.02 - Protective services and protective placement: duties
Section 55.03 - Status of guardian
Section 55.043 - Adult-at-risk agency
Section 55.045 - Funding
Section 55.05 - Voluntary protective services
Section 55.055 - Admissions initially made without court involvement
Section 55.06 - Protective services and protective placement; eligibility
Section 55.075 - Protective services or protective placement; petition
Section 55.08 - Protective services or protective placement: standards
Section 55.09 - Notice of petition and hearing for protective services or placement
Section 55.10 - Hearing on petition for protective services or protective placement
Section 55.105 - Appointment of counsel
Section 55.107 - Reimbursement of counsel provided by the state
Section 55.11 - Comprehensive evaluation; recommendations; statements
Section 55.12 - Order for protective services or protective placement
Section 55.13 - Emergency protective services
Section 55.135 - Emergency and temporary protective placement
Section 55.14 - [Effective Until4/1/2022]Involuntary administration of psychotropic medication
Section 55.14 - [Effective4/1/2022]Involuntary administration of psychotropic medication
Section 55.15 - Transfer of an individual under a protective placement order
Section 55.16 - Modification of an order for protective placement or protective services
Section 55.17 - Termination of an order for protective placement or protective services
Section 55.175 - Discharge from protective placement
Section 55.18 - Annual review of protective placement
Section 55.19 - Annual review of order authorizing involuntary administration of psychotropic medication
Section 55.195 - Duties of guardian ad litem for protective services reviews
Section 55.20 - Appeals
Section 55.21 - Centers for the developmentally disabled
Section 55.22 - Records
Section 55.23 - Patients' rights