(1) As used in ORS 426.005 to 426.390, unless the context requires otherwise:
(a) “Department” means the Department of Human Services.
(b) “Director of the facility” means a superintendent of a state mental hospital, the chief of psychiatric services in a community hospital or the person in charge of treatment and rehabilitation programs at other treatment facilities.
(c) “Facility” means a state mental hospital, community hospital, residential facility, detoxification center, day treatment facility or such other facility as the department determines suitable, any of which may provide diagnosis and evaluation, medical care, detoxification, social services or rehabilitation for committed mentally ill persons.
(d) “Mentally ill person” means a person who, because of a mental disorder, is one or more of the following:
(A) Dangerous to self or others.
(B) Unable to provide for basic personal needs and is not receiving such care as is necessary for health or safety.
(C) A person:
(i) With a chronic mental illness, as defined in ORS 426.495;
(ii) Who, within the previous three years, has twice been placed in a hospital or approved inpatient facility by the department under ORS 426.060;
(iii) Who is exhibiting symptoms or behavior substantially similar to those that preceded and led to one or more of the hospitalizations or inpatient placements referred to in sub-subparagraph (ii) of this subparagraph; and
(iv) Who, unless treated, will continue, to a reasonable medical probability, to physically or mentally deteriorate so that the person will become a person described under either subparagraph (A) or (B) of this paragraph or both.
(e) “Nonhospital facility” means any facility, other than a hospital, that is approved by the department to provide adequate security, psychiatric, nursing and other services to persons under ORS 426.232 or 426.233.
(f) “Prehearing period of detention” means a period of time calculated from the initiation of custody during which a person may be detained under ORS 426.228, 426.231, 426.232 or 426.233.
(2) Whenever a community mental health and developmental disabilities program director, director of the facility, superintendent of a state hospital or administrator of a facility is referred to, the reference includes any designee such person has designated to act on the person’s behalf in the exercise of duties. [1961 c.706 §25; 1973 c.838 §1; 1987 c.903 §5; 1989 c.993 §3; 1993 c.484 §11; 2001 c.900 §125; 2007 c.70 §203]
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Section: 426.005 426.010 426.020 426.030 426.060 426.070 426.072 426.074 426.075 426.080 426.090 426.095 426.100 426.110 426.120 NextLast modified: August 7, 2008