Application of chapter
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe (1993)
Most recently applied in In the Matter of the Commitment of P.B. v. Evansville State Hospital (December 2017)
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.20.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 1. This chapter applies to a proceeding for commitment of an individual:
(1) alleged to be mentally ill and either dangerous or gravely disabled; and
(2) whose commitment is reasonably expected to require custody, care, or treatment in a facility for more than ninety (90) days.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.