Michigan Laws 330.1482 – Review of status; frequency; assignment of physician or psychologist
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 330.1482
- Involuntary mental health treatment: means court-ordered hospitalization, assisted outpatient treatment, or combined hospitalization and assisted outpatient treatment as described in section 468. See Michigan Laws 330.1400
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
- person requiring treatment: means (a), (b), or (c):
(a) An individual who has mental illness, and who as a result of that mental illness can reasonably be expected within the near future to intentionally or unintentionally seriously physically injure himself, herself, or another individual, and who has engaged in an act or acts or made significant threats that are substantially supportive of the expectation. See Michigan Laws 330.1401
Each individual subject to a 1-year order of involuntary mental health treatment has the right to adequate and prompt review of his or her current status as a person requiring treatment. Six months from the date of a 1-year order of involuntary mental health treatment, the executive director of the community mental health services program responsible for treatment or, if private arrangements for the reimbursement of mental health treatment services have been made, the hospital director or director of the assisted outpatient treatment program shall assign a physician or licensed psychologist to review the individual’s clinical status as a person requiring treatment.