Kentucky Chapter 645 — Mental Health Act
31 sections hosted, reproduced from the official public-domain source.
- KRS 645.010— Title of chapter
- KRS 645.020— Definitions for chapter
- KRS 645.030— Voluntary admission to hospital -- Transport from originating hospital to receiving hospital or psychiatric facility
- KRS 645.035— Rights of hospitalized child
- KRS 645.040— Certification petition
- KRS 645.050— Contents of certification petition
- KRS 645.060— Procedures upon filing petition -- Appointment of counsel
- KRS 645.070— Hearing procedure
- KRS 645.080— Use of child's disclosures
- KRS 645.090— Criteria for hospitalization
- KRS 645.100— Order after hearing
- KRS 645.105— Certification -- Forms -- Fees
- KRS 645.110— Recertification procedure
- KRS 645.120— Emergency hospitalization
- KRS 645.130— Rights and duties of court-designated workers
- KRS 645.140— Jurisdictional matters
- KRS 645.150— Prerequisite for involuntary hospitalization -- Discharge of voluntary patient -- Notice of discharge required
- KRS 645.160— Repealed, 1988
- KRS 645.170— Hospital review committee -- Review of patient's individual treatment plan
- KRS 645.180— Convalescent leave for involuntary patient -- Rehospitalization
- KRS 645.190— Child's right to file notice of intent to leave
- KRS 645.200— Responsibilities of hospital after receipt of notice of intent to leave
- KRS 645.210— Contesting of intent to leave
- KRS 645.220— Notice requirements
- KRS 645.230— Rights of child, parent
- KRS 645.240— Procedures when child objects to being discharged
- KRS 645.250— Authority to promulgate administrative regulations
- KRS 645.260— Appeals
- KRS 645.270— Duty of mental health professional to warn intended victim of patient's threat of violence
- KRS 645.280— Place where child to be held
- KRS 645.990— Penalty