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5-2-301. Definitions.
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5-2-301. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Appropriate facility” means any facility within or without this state to which a defendant is eligible for admission and treatment for mental disease or defect;
(2) “Compliance monitor” means either a social service representative or licensed social worker, or both, employed by the Department of Human Services for the purpose of, including, but not limited to:
(A) Verifying that a person conditionally released pursuant to a provision of this subchapter is in compliance with the conditions for release;
(B) Providing social service assistance to a person conditionally released pursuant to a provision of this subchapter; and
(C) Reporting compliance with the conditions for release or lack of compliance with the conditions for release to the appropriate circuit court;
(3) “Designated receiving facility or program” means an inpatient or outpatient treatment facility or program that is designated within each geographic area of the state by the Director of the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services to accept the responsibility for the care, custody, and treatment of a person involuntarily admitted to the state mental health system;
(4) “Expert” means a qualified psychiatrist or a qualified psychologist;
(5) “Frivolous” means clearly lacking any basis in fact or law;
(6) “Lack of criminal responsibility” means that due to a mental disease or defect a defendant lacked the capacity at the time of the alleged offense to either:
(A) Appreciate the criminality of his or her conduct; or
(B) Conform his or her conduct to the requirements of the law;
(7)(A) “Mental disease or defect” means a:
(i) Substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orien
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-2-301
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5-2-301. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Appropriate facility” means any facility within or without this state to which a defendant is eligible for admission and treatment for mental disease or defect;
(2) “Compliance monitor” means either a social service representative or licensed social worker, or both, employed by the Department of Human Services for the purpose of, including, but not limited to:
(A) Verifying that a person conditionally released pursuant to a provision of this subchapter is in compliance with the conditions for release;
(B) Providing social service assistance to a person conditionally released pursuant to a provision of this subchapter; and
(C) Reporting compliance with the conditions for release or lack of compliance with the conditions for release to the appropriate circuit court;
(3) “Designated receiving facility or program” means an inpatient or outpatient treatment facility or program that is designated within each geographic area of the state by the Director of the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services to accept the responsibility for the care, custody, and treatment of a person involuntarily admitted to the state mental health system;
(4) “Expert” means a qualified psychiatrist or a qualified psychologist;
(5) “Frivolous” means clearly lacking any basis in fact or law;
(6) “Lack of criminal responsibility” means that due to a mental disease or defect a defendant lacked the capacity at the time of the alleged offense to either:
(A) Appreciate the criminality of his or her conduct; or
(B) Conform his or her conduct to the requirements of the law;
(7)(A) “Mental disease or defect” means a:
(i) Substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life;
(ii) State of significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with a defect of adaptive behavior that developed during the developmental period; or
(iii) Significant impairment in cognitive functioning acquired as a direct consequence of a brain injury or resulting from a progressively deteriorating neurological condition.
(B) As used in the Arkansas Criminal Code, “mental disease or defect” does not include an abnormality manifested only by:
(i) Repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct;
(ii) Continuous or noncontinuous periods of intoxication, as defined in § 5-2-207(b)(1), caused by a substance such as alcohol or a drug; or
(iii) Dependence upon or addiction to any substance such as alcohol or a drug;
(8) “Prescribed regimen of medical, psychiatric, or psychological care or treatment” means care or treatment for a mental illness, as defined in § 20-47-202;
(9) “Qualified psychiatrist” means a licensed psychiatrist who has successfully completed or is currently participating in a post-residency fellowship in forensic psychiatry accredited by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc., or has successfully completed a forensic certification course approved by the department, and who is currently approved by the department to administer a forensic examination as defined in this subchapter;
(10) “Qualified psychologist” means a licensed psychologist who has successfully completed or is currently participating in a formal postdoctoral fellowship training program in forensic psychology or has successfully completed a forensic certification course approved by the department, and who is currently approved by the department to administer a forensic examination as defined in this subchapter;
(11) “Repetitive” means filed within six (6) months of an application under § 5-2-316 that has been previously denied and that fails to demonstrate a material change in circumstances;
(12)(A) “Restraint” means any manual method, physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment that immobilizes a person or reduces the ability of a person to move his or her arms, legs, body, or head freely.
(B) “Restraint” does not include devices such as orthopedically prescribed devices, surgical dressings or bandages, protective helmets, or other methods that involve the physical holding of a person for the purpose of protecting the person from falling or to permit the person to participate in activities without the risk of physical harm to himself or herself; and
(13) “State mental health system” means the Arkansas State Hospital and any other facility or program certified by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services.
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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
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5-2-207. Intoxication.
(a) Intoxication that is not self-induced intoxication is an affirmative defense to a prosecution if at the time a person engages in the conduct charged to constitute the offense the person lacks capacity to:
(1) Conform his or her conduct to the requirements of the law; or
(2) Appreciate the criminality of his or her conduct.
(b) As used in this section:
(1) “Intoxication” means a disturbance of a mental or physical capacity resulting from the introduction of alcohol, a drug, or another substance into the body; and
(2) “Self-induced intoxication” means intoxication caused by a substance that the actor knowingly introduces into his or her body and the actor knows or ought to know the tendency of the substance to cause intoxication.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-2-207
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5-2-316. Conditional release — Subsequent discharge, modification, or revocation.
(a)(1) The Secretary of the Department of Human Services or his or her designee or a person conditionally released under § 5-2-315, or both, may apply to the court ordering the conditional release for discharge from or modification of the order granting conditional release on the ground that the person conditionally released under § 5-2-315 may be discharged or the order modified without danger to the person conditionally released under § 5-2-315 or to the person or property of another person.
(2) The application shall be accompanied by a supporting affidavit of a qualified physician.
(3) A copy of the application and affidavit shall be transmitted to the prosecuting attorney of the judicial circuit from which the person was conditionally released and to any person supervising his or her release, and the hearing on the application shall be held following notice to the prosecuting attorney and the person supervising his or her release.
(4) On its own motion or on the motion of a party, a court shall dismiss an application made under this section if the court determines that the application is frivolous or repetitive.
(b)(1) After notice to the conditionally released person and a hearing, the court may determine that the conditionally released person has violated a condition of release or that for the safety of the conditionally released person or for the safety of the person or property of another person the conditional release should be modified, extended for a period specified by the court not to exceed five (5) years, or revoked.
(2)(A) If an order is entered revoking the most recent order of conditional release under subdivision (b)(1) of this section, all conditions of the
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-2-316
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 5-2-316. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.