Title 16, Courts

(1) The department of mental health and substance abuse services shall administer the drug court treatment program by:(1) Defining, developing, and gathering outcome measures for drug court treatment programs relating to § 16-22-102;(2) Collecting, reporting and disseminating dru…

(1) Through the department of mental health and substance abuse services, a court exercising criminal jurisdiction within this state or an existing drug court treatment program created by a court exercising criminal jurisdiction may apply for drug court treatment program grant fu…

(1) Department of mental health and substance abuse services grant awards may not be:(1) Used to pay for wages not directly related to drug court treatment program operations;(2) Made to any court that does not agree to operate its program in accordance with the principles in § 1…

The commissioner of finance and administration shall establish an advisory committee composed of seven (7) members, two (2) of whom shall be judges who have presided over a drug court for at least two (2) years and two (2) of whom shall be drug coordinators who have functioned as…

(a) The clerks of all courts of general sessions, circuit and criminal courts and municipal courts exercising the jurisdiction of courts of general sessions shall collect the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00), or in counties establishing or operating a veterans treatment court…

The assessment collected and remitted to the state shall be placed in a drug court treatment program resources fund for the purposes of funding drug court treatment program administration and the grant awards as provided in §§ 16-22-105 and 16-22-106. The office of criminal justi…

Nothing contained in this chapter shall confer a right or an expectation of a right to treatment for an offender within the criminal justice system.

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the ability of any jurisdiction to create or maintain a drug court treatment program that adheres to the guidelines set forth in § 16-22-104.

(1) Each participant in a drug court treatment program shall:(1) Not be a violent offender as defined in § 16-22-103;(2) Be substance abusing or chemically dependent, or both; and(3) Be willing to participate in a treatment program. (1) Not be a violent offender as defined in § 1…

In addition to courts exercising criminal jurisdiction and authorized to serve as drug treatment courts, courts exercising jurisdiction over juveniles alleged to be delinquent or unruly may also develop and operate drug court treatment programs, subject to all guidelines and requ…