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20-47-601. Definitions.
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20-47-601. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Community mental health centers” means those private nonprofit organizations certified by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services under § 20-47-202 as community mental health centers and contracted to perform designated public mental health services in the respective catchment areas of the state;
(2) “Inmate with mental illness” means a jail inmate who, after being assessed by a person qualified by licensure to conduct an assessment, meets the criteria for serious mental illness or is in danger of harm to self or to others;
(3) “Jail inmate” means a natural person who is in the custody of law enforcement authorities within the confines of a county jail;
(4) “Person with mental illness” means a person who appears to be a danger to himself or herself or to others or to need mental health evaluation for treatment and may include an individual detained by a law enforcement officer; and
(5) “Protocol” means standardized outlines of the steps to be taken by law enforcement officers, jails, community mental health centers, or regional secure psychiatric facilities to handle the situation of each person with mental illness arrested by a law enforcement officer.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-47-601
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20-47-601. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Community mental health centers” means those private nonprofit organizations certified by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services under § 20-47-202 as community mental health centers and contracted to perform designated public mental health services in the respective catchment areas of the state;
(2) “Inmate with mental illness” means a jail inmate who, after being assessed by a person qualified by licensure to conduct an assessment, meets the criteria for serious mental illness or is in danger of harm to self or to others;
(3) “Jail inmate” means a natural person who is in the custody of law enforcement authorities within the confines of a county jail;
(4) “Person with mental illness” means a person who appears to be a danger to himself or herself or to others or to need mental health evaluation for treatment and may include an individual detained by a law enforcement officer; and
(5) “Protocol” means standardized outlines of the steps to be taken by law enforcement officers, jails, community mental health centers, or regional secure psychiatric facilities to handle the situation of each person with mental illness arrested by a law enforcement officer.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-47-202. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Administrator” means the chief administrative officer or executive director of any private or public facility or of any community mental health center certified by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services;
(2) “Behavior history” means a person's statements or actions on specific occasions as established by the person's declarations, observations of others, or records;
(3) “Community mental health center” means a program and its affiliates established and administered by the state, or a private, nonprofit corporation certified by the division for the purpose of providing mental health services to the residents of a defined geographic area and which minimally provides twenty-four-hour emergency, inpatient, outpatient, consultation, education, prevention, partial care, follow-up and aftercare, and initial screening and precare services. The division may contract with a community mental health center for the operation and administration of any services which are part of the state mental health system;
(4) “Crisis response services” means immediate or emergency treatment. Because mental illnesses are often of an episodic nature, there will be instances that require acute and quick crisis response services;
(5) [Repealed.]
(6) “Detention” means any confinement of a person against his or her wishes and begins either:
(A) When a person is involuntarily brought to a receiving facility or program or to a hospital;
(B) When, pursuant to § 20-47-209(a), the person appears for the initial hearing; or
(C) When a person on a voluntary status in a receiving facility or program or a hospital requests to leave pursuant to § 20-47-204(3);
(7) [Repealed.]
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Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-47-202
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-47-202. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.