Oregon Statutes - Chapter 427 - Persons With Mental Retardation; Persons With Developmental Disabilities - Section 427.255 - Detention prior to investigation or hearing; care and maintenance while under custody.

(1) If the court finds that there is probable cause to believe that failure to take an allegedly mentally retarded person into custody pending an investigation or hearing would pose an imminent and serious danger to the person or to others, the judge may issue a warrant of detention to either the community mental health and developmental disabilities program director or the sheriff of the county directing that the person or the designee of the person take the allegedly mentally retarded person into custody and produce the mentally retarded person at the time and place stated in the warrant. At the time the person is taken into custody, the person taking the person into custody shall advise the allegedly mentally retarded person or, if the allegedly mentally retarded person is incapacitated or a minor, the parents or guardian of the allegedly mentally retarded person of the person’s right to counsel, to have legal counsel appointed if the allegedly mentally retarded person is unable to afford legal counsel, and, if requested, to have legal counsel appointed immediately.

(2) A person taken into custody under subsection (1) of this section shall be provided all care, custody, evaluation and treatment required for the mental and physical health and safety of the person and the director of the facility retaining custody shall report any care, custody, evaluation or treatment provided the person to the court as required by ORS 427.280. Any diagnostic evaluation performed on such person shall be consistent with Department of Human Services rules and ORS 427.105. Any prescription or administration of drugs shall be the sole responsibility of the treating physician. The allegedly mentally retarded person shall have the right to the least hazardous treatment procedures while in custody, and the treating physician shall be notified immediately of the use of any mechanical restraints on the person. A note of each use of mechanical restraint and the reasons therefor shall be made a part of the person’s clinical record over the signature of the treating physician. [1979 c.683 §19]

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