Louisiana Children’s Code 1467 – Capacity required
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Terms Used In Louisiana Children's Code 1467
- Discharge: means the full or conditional release from a treatment facility of any minor admitted or otherwise detained under this Title. See Louisiana Children's Code 1404
- Patient: means any person detained and taken care of as a person with mental illness or person suffering from substance abuse. See Louisiana Children's Code 1404
- Substance abuse: means the condition of a person who uses narcotic, stimulant, depressant, soporific, tranquilizing, or hallucinogenic drugs or alcohol to the extent that it renders the person dangerous to himself or others or renders the person gravely disabled. See Louisiana Children's Code 1404
- Treatment: means an active effort to accomplish an improvement in the mental condition or behavior of a patient or to prevent deterioration in his condition or behavior. See Louisiana Children's Code 1404
A. No admission may be deemed voluntary unless the admitting physician determines that the minor to be admitted has the capacity to make a knowing and voluntary consent to the admission.
B. Knowing and voluntary consent shall be determined by the ability of the minor to understand:
(1) That the treatment facility to which the minor patient is requesting admission is one for persons with mental illness or persons suffering from substance abuse.
(2) That he is making an application for admission.
(3) The nature of his status and the provisions governing discharge or conversion to an involuntary status.
Acts 1991, No. 235, §14, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2014, No. 811, §33, eff. June 23, 2014.