Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5122 - Hospitalization Of Mentally Ill

• Section 5122.01 - Hospitalization Of Mentally Ill Definitions.
  As used in this chapter and Chapter 5119. of the Revised Code: (A) "Mental illness" means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation,...
• Section 5122.011 - Application Of Chapter.
  The provisions of this chapter regarding hospitalization apply to a person who is found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of...
• Section 5122.02 - Application For Voluntary Admission.
  (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, any person who is eighteen years of age or older and who is, appears...
• Section 5122.03 - Release Of Voluntary Patients.
  A patient admitted under section 5122.02 of the Revised Code who requests release in writing, or whose release is requested in writing by the...
• Section 5122.04 - Outpatient Services For Minors Without Knowledge Or Consent Of Parent Or Guardian.
  (A) Upon the request of a minor fourteen years of age or older, a mental health professional may provide outpatient mental health services, excluding...
• Section 5122.041 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5122.49.
  Effective Date: 07-01-1980
• Section 5122.05 - Involuntary Admission.
  (A) The chief clinical officer of a hospital may, and the chief clinical officer of a public hospital in all cases of psychiatric medical...
• Section 5122.06 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1989
• Section 5122.07, 5122.08 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 08-26-1976
• Section 5122.09 - Release Before Hearing.
  If a person taken into custody under section 5122.10 or 5122.11 of the Revised Code is released from custody before having an initial hearing,...
• Section 5122.10 - Emergency Hospitalization.
  Any psychiatrist, licensed clinical psychologist, licensed physician, health officer, parole officer, police officer, or sheriff may take a person into custody, or the chief...
• Section 5122.11 - Court Ordered Treatment Of Mentally Ill Person.
  Proceedings for a mentally ill person subject to court order pursuant to sections 5122.11 to 5122.15 of the Revised Code shall be commenced by...
• Section 5122.111 - Affidavit Of Mental Illness.
  To initiate proceedings for court-ordered treatment of a person under section 5122.11 of the Revised Code, a person or persons shall file an affidavit...
• Section 5122.12 - Hearing Notice.
  After receipt of the affidavit required by section 5122.11 of the Revised Code, the court shall cause written notice by mail or otherwise of...
• Section 5122.13 - Investigation.
  Within two business days after receipt of the affidavit required by section 5122.11 of the Revised Code, the probate court shall refer the affidavit...
• Section 5122.14 - Pre-hearing Medical Examination.
  Immediately after acceptance of an affidavit required under section 5122.11 of the Revised Code, the court may appoint a psychiatrist, or a licensed clinical...
• Section 5122.141 - Initial Hearing.
  (A) A respondent who is involuntarily placed in a hospital or other place as designated in section 5122.10 or 5122.17 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 5122.15 - Full Hearing.
  (A) Full hearings shall be conducted in a manner consistent with this chapter and with due process of law. The hearings shall be conducted...
• Section 5122.16 - Hospital Care Or Treatment By Veterans' Administration Or Other U. S. Agency.
  If a person, ordered to be hospitalized pursuant to section 5122.15 of the Revised Code, is eligible for hospital care or treatment by the...
• Section 5122.17 - Temporary Detention.
  Pending removal to a hospital, a person taken into custody or ordered to be hospitalized pursuant to this chapter may be detained for not...
• Section 5122.18 - Notice Of Hospitalization.
  Whenever a person has been involuntarily detained at or admitted to a hospital, community mental health services provider, or other facility at the request...
• Section 5122.19 - Medical Examination Within 24 Hours Of Arrival.
  Every person transported to a hospital or community mental health services provider pursuant to sections 5122.11 to 5122.16 of the Revised Code, shall be...
• Section 5122.20 - Transfers.
  The director of mental health and addiction services or the director's designee may transfer, or authorize the transfer of, an involuntary patient, or a...
• Section 5122.21 - Discharging Involuntary Patients.
  (A) The chief clinical officer shall as frequently as practicable, and at least once every thirty days, examine or cause to be examined every...
• Section 5122.22 - Trial Visits.
  When the chief clinical officer of a hospital considers it in the best interest of a patient, the officer may permit the patient to...
• Section 5122.23 - Reporting Death Or Change In Custody Status Of Patient.
  The chief clinical officer of a public hospital shall immediately report to the department of mental health and addiction services and the board of...
• Section 5122.231 - Applying For County Services.
  Any person who has been hospitalized or committed under this chapter may, at any time, apply to the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and...
• Section 5122.24 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1989
• Section 5122.25 - Rehearing.
  Upon the request of a hospital, person, board, community mental health services provider, or facility who has custody of a patient hospitalized pursuant to...
• Section 5122.26 - Patient Absent Without Leave.
  (A) If a patient is absent without leave, on a verbal or written order issued within five days of the time of the unauthorized...
• Section 5122.27 - Chief Clinical Officer Duties.
  The chief clinical officer of the hospital or the chief clinical officer's designee shall assure that all patients hospitalized or committed pursuant to this...
• Section 5122.271 - Consent To Treatment.
  (A) Except as provided in divisions (C), (D), and (E) of this section, the chief clinical officer or, in a nonpublic hospital, the attending...
• Section 5122.28 - Labor And Tasks Performed By Patients.
  No patient of a hospital for the mentally ill shall be compelled to perform labor which involves the operation, support, or maintenance of the...
• Section 5122.29 - Patients' Rights.
  All patients hospitalized or committed pursuant to this chapter have the following rights: (A) The right to a written list of all rights enumerated...
• Section 5122.30 - Writ Of Habeas Corpus.
  Any person detained pursuant to this chapter or section 2945.39, 2945.40, 2945.401, or 2945.402 of the Revised Code shall be entitled to the writ...
• Section 5122.301 - Civil Rights Of Patients.
  No person shall be deprived of any public or private employment solely because of having been admitted to a hospital or otherwise receiving services,...
• Section 5122.31 - Confidentiality.
  (A) All certificates, applications, records, and reports made for the purpose of this chapter and sections 2945.38, 2945.39, 2945.40, 2945.401, and 2945.402 of the...
• Section 5122.311 - Notification Of Bureau Of Criminal Identification And Investigation Of Adjudication Of Mental Illness.
  (A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, if, on or after April 8, 2004, an individual is found by a...
• Section 5122.32 - Confidentiality Of Quality Assurance Records.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Quality assurance committee" means a committee that is appointed in the central office of the department of...
• Section 5122.33 - Department Of Mental Health And Addiction Services; Additional Powers.
  The department of mental health and addiction services may prescribe the form of applications, reports, records, and medical certificates provided for under this chapter,...
• Section 5122.34 - Immunity.
  (A) Persons, including, but not limited to, boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and community mental health services providers, acting in...
• Section 5122.341 - Immunity From Liability.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Facility or provider" means, in the context of a person committed to the department of mental health...
• Section 5122.35 - Venue.
  (A) In a case in which the jurisdiction of a court has not been specifically given or the procedure provided for, the court in...
• Section 5122.36 - Expenses Of Return To County Of Residence.
  If the legal residence of a person suffering from mental illness is in another county of the state, the necessary expense of the person's...
• Section 5122.38 - Competency Adjudications.
  Each individual now or formerly hospitalized pursuant to this chapter or former Chapter 5123. of the Revised Code, is entitled to an adjudication of...
• Section 5122.39 - Guardianship Of Mentally Ill Persons.
  (A) Mentally ill minors shall remain under the natural guardianship of their parents, notwithstanding hospitalization pursuant to this chapter, unless parental rights have been...
• Section 5122.41 - Transmission Of Court Papers.
  The court, upon making an order hospitalizing a person under this chapter, shall immediately transmit to the chief clinical officer of the hospital, copies,...
• Section 5122.42 - Preservation Of Rights And Privileges.
  Nothing in this chapter limits any rights, privileges, or immunities under the constitution, and laws of the United States or this state. Effective Date:
• Section 5122.43 - Payment Of Costs, Fees, And Expenses Of Proceedings - Reimbursement.
  (A) Costs, fees, and expenses of all proceedings held under this chapter shall be paid as follows: (1) To police and health officers, other...
• Section 5122.44 - Patients Buried On Department Hospital Grounds - Definitions.
  As used in sections 5122.44 to 5122.47 of the Revised Code: (A) "Compilation" means a written list of the following information, as the department...
• Section 5122.45 - Compilation Of Patient Information For Each Cemetery.
  The department of mental health and addiction services shall create a separate compilation for each cemetery located on the grounds of or adjacent to...
• Section 5122.46 - History Connection And State Agencies To Provide Access To Information.
  The Ohio history connection and each state agency shall, at the request of the department of mental health and addiction services, provide the department...
• Section 5122.47 - Deposit Of Compilations With History Connection And State Library.
  The department of mental health and addiction services shall deposit a copy of each compilation with the Ohio history connection and the state library...
• Section 5122.49 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-10-1989
• Section 5122.50 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3793.11.
  Effective Date: 10-10-1989
• Section 5122.51 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-10-1989
• Section 5122.52, 5122.53 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3793.12, 3793.13.
  Effective Date: 10-10-1989
• Section 5122.54, 5122.55 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-10-1989
• Section 5122.60 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-10-1989
• Section 5122.99 - Penalty.
  A person who violates division (B)(2) of section 5122.32 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two thousand five hundred dollars...

Last modified: October 10, 2016