Montana Code Annotated (2013)
Table of Contents / TITLE 53. SOCIAL SERVICES AND INSTITUTIONS / CHAPTER 21. MENTALLY ILL
Part 1. Treatment of the Seriously Mentally Ill
Current Version 2025, 2023, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1997, 1995
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
53-21-111 - 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
53-21-161 - 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
53-21-180 - 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
53-21-193 - 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