Title 13 — Health and Economic Welfare Services
14 chapters · 196 sections in this title.
A.S.C.A. § 13.1501 Diagnosis, treatment and care of mental illness or deficiency
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The diagnosis, treatment, and care of persons suffering from mental illness or deficiency shall be carried out in a manner and in places designated by the Director of Health or his designee. When commitment for mental illness or deficiency is indicated, person may be committed un…
A.S.C.A. § 13.1502 Commitment of mentally ill or deficient person—Notification procedure and emergency commitment procedure
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The trial division of the High Court may, after a hearing, involuntarily commit a mentally ill or deficient person within its jurisdiction to designated places for the care and treatment of those persons in the Territory. That person may thereafter be restrained to the extent nec…
A.S.C.A. § 13.1503 Commitment hearing
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A commitment hearing shall be held, and shall require the testimony in open court of the following: (1) the person or persons completing the certificate of need for emergency commitment; (2) the physicians who completed the first and second certificates of medical need for commit…
A.S.C.A. § 13.1504 Causes for commitment
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(a) Mental illness or deficiency are not of themselves sufficient cause for involuntary confinement under this chapter. Only the following are specific causes for commitment: (1) danger to others; (2) danger to self; and (3) inability to care for self to such a degree as to make …
A.S.C.A. § 13.1505 Right to counsel
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(a) At all stages of the commitment process, commencing with the second certificate of medical need for commitment and until ultimate release from commitment, the person about whom the court is considering commitment shall be represented by legal counsel, either of his own choosi…
A.S.C.A. § 13.1506 Transfers
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Persons committed under this chapter may be transferred to institutions outside of the Territory considered suitable for their care by order of the Director. If a transfer is effectuated, the provisions of 13.1507 shall be suspended and review of necessity for commitment shall be…
A.S.C.A. § 13.1507 Periodic review
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At 9-month intervals following the date of original commitment, review hearings shall be had before the trial division of the High Court. No more than 10 days prior to all hearings the person committed shall be independently examined by at least 2 physicians or medical practition…
A.S.C.A. § 13.1508 Release
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The physician in charge of places designated for the treatment of mentally ill or deficient persons may be any time and without the necessity of a review hearing release the person with termination of commitment when in his judgment the specific cause for commitment no longer exi…
A.S.C.A. § 13.1509 Apprehension
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Persons who have been committed under this chapter who are absent on leave or escape from the place to which they have been committed, may upon direction of the person in charge of that place of commitment be returned by policemen, or officials or employees of that place of commi…
A.S.C.A. § 13.1510 Civil rights and competency
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A presumption of legal incompetency shall exist with respect to any person committed under this chapter. The fact of the commitment shall not otherwise itself modify or vary any civil right of the person committed. History: 1980, PL 16-73 § 10