Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:184

  • administrator: means a person in charge of a treatment facility or his deputy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Client: refers to a recipient of services who has been charged with or convicted of a crime and who requires special protection and restraint in a forensic treatment facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
  • Treatment facility: includes but is not limited to the following, and shall be selected with consideration of first, medical suitability; second, least restriction of the person's liberty; third, nearness to the patient's usual residence; fourth, financial or other status of the patient; and fifth, patient's expressed preference, except that such considerations shall not apply to forensic facilities:

                (i) Public and private behavioral health services providers licensed pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2

            Any person who knowingly makes available any intoxicant to any client of any treatment facility, except with the permission of the director or administrator, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

            Amended by Acts 2017, No. 369, §2.