Alaska Statutes Title 47, Chapter 47.30, Article 09 - Involuntary Admission for Treatment

• Sec. 47.30.700 Initial Involuntary Commitment Procedures.
  (a) Upon petition of any adult, a judge shall immediately conduct a screening investigation or direct a local mental health professional employed by the...
• Sec. 47.30.705 Emergency Detention for Evaluation.
  (a) A peace officer, a psychiatrist or physician who is licensed to practice in this state or employed by the federal government, or a...
• Sec. 47.30.710 Examination; Hospitalization.
  (a) A respondent who is delivered under AS 47.30.700 - 47.30.705 to an evaluation facility for emergency examination and treatment shall be examined and...
• Sec. 47.30.715 Procedure After Order.
  When a facility receives a proper order for evaluation, it shall accept the order and the respondent for an evaluation period not to exceed...
• Sec. 47.30.720 Release Before Expiration of 72-Hour Period.
  If at any time in the course of the 72-hour period the mental health professionals conducting the evaluation determine that the respondent does not...
• Sec. 47.30.725 Rights; Notification.
  (a) When a respondent is detained for evaluation under AS 47.30.660 - 47.30.915, the respondent shall be immediately notified orally and in writing of...
• Sec. 47.30.730 Petition for 30-Day Commitment.
  (a) In the course of the 72-hour evaluation period, a petition for commitment to a treatment facility may be filed in court. The petition...
• Sec. 47.30.735 30-Day Commitment; Hearing.
  (a) Upon receipt of a proper petition for commitment, the court shall hold a hearing at the date and time previously specified according to...
• Sec. 47.30.740 Procedure for 90-Day Commitment Following 30-Day Commitment.
  (a) At any time during the respondent's 30-day commitment, the professional person in charge, or that person's professional designee, may file with the court...
• Sec. 47.30.745 90-Day Commitment Hearing Rights; Continued Commitment.
  (a) A respondent subject to a petition for 90-day commitment has, in addition to the rights specified elsewhere in this chapter, or otherwise applicable,...
• Sec. 47.30.750 Conduct of Hearing.
  The hearing under AS 47.30.745 shall be conducted in the same manner, and with the same rights for the respondent, as set out in...
• Sec. 47.30.755 Court Order.
  (a) After the hearing and within the time limit specified in AS 47.30.745, the court may commit the respondent to a treatment facility for...
• Sec. 47.30.760 Placement At Closest Facility.
  Treatment shall always be available at a state-operated hospital; however, if space is available and upon acceptance by another treatment facility, a respondent who...
• Sec. 47.30.765 Appeal.
  The respondent has the right to an appeal from an order of involuntary commitment. The court shall inform the respondent of this right.
• Sec. 47.30.770 Additional 180-Day Commitment.
  (a) The respondent shall be released from involuntary treatment at the expiration of 90 days unless the professional person in charge files a petition...
• Sec. 47.30.772 Medication and Treatment.
  An evaluation facility or designated treatment facility may administer medication or other treatment to an involuntarily committed patient only in a manner that is...
• Sec. 47.30.775 Commitment of Minors.
  The provisions of AS 47.30.700 - 47.30.815 apply to minors. However, all notices required to be served on the respondent in AS 47.30.700 -...
• Sec. 47.30.780 Early Discharge.
  (a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, the professional person in charge shall at any time discharge a respondent on the ground...
• Sec. 47.30.785 Authorized Absences.
  A respondent undergoing involuntary treatment on an inpatient basis under AS 47.30.700 - 47.30.815 may be authorized to be absent from the treatment facility...
• Sec. 47.30.790 Unauthorized Absences: Return to Facility; Required Notice.
  When a respondent undergoing involuntary treatment on an inpatient basis is absent from the treatment facility without, or in excess of, authorization under AS...
• Sec. 47.30.795 Involuntary Outpatient Care for Committed Persons.
  (a) A respondent who was originally committed to involuntary inpatient care under AS 47.30.700 - 47.30.915 may be released before the expiration of the...
• Sec. 47.30.800 Conversion of Involuntary Outpatient Treatment to Inpatient Commitment.
  (a) A respondent ordered by the court under the provisions of AS 47.30.700 - 47.30.915 to receive involuntary outpatient treatment may be required to...
• Sec. 47.30.803 Conversion From Involuntary to Voluntary Status.
  A patient subject to involuntary hospitalization under AS 47.30.705, 47.30.735, or AS 47.30.755 may at any time convert to voluntary status if the responsible...
• Sec. 47.30.805 Computation, Extension, and Expiration of Periods of Time.
  (a) Except as provided in (b) of this section,(1) computations of a 72-hour evaluation period under AS 47.30.715 or a 48-hour detention period under...
• Sec. 47.30.810 Habeas Corpus Not Limited.
  Nothing in AS 47.30.660 - 47.30.915 may be construed as limiting a person's right to a writ of habeas corpus.
• Sec. 47.30.815 Limitation of Liability; Bad Faith Application a Felony.
  (a) A person acting in good faith upon either actual knowledge or reliable information who makes application for evaluation or treatment of another person...

Last modified: November 15, 2016