Kentucky Statutes 504.085 – Facility’s standing to petition for clarification or modification and to appeal
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A forensic psychiatric facility or psychiatric facility as those terms are defined in KRS
202A.011 shall have standing to petition the court for any necessary clarification or modification of orders or judgments entered in proceedings under this chapter and to appeal from final orders or judgments entered in proceedings which have not complied with the provisions of this chapter. A copy shall be sent to the mentally ill person or individual with an intellectual disability who has been charged with or convicted of a felony and to the person’s attorney of record, if any, of whatever pleadings are filed by the forensic psychiatric facility or psychiatric facility.
Effective: July 12, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 122, effective July 12, 2012. — Created
1994 Ky. Acts ch. 498, sec. 14, effective July 15, 1994.
202A.011 shall have standing to petition the court for any necessary clarification or modification of orders or judgments entered in proceedings under this chapter and to appeal from final orders or judgments entered in proceedings which have not complied with the provisions of this chapter. A copy shall be sent to the mentally ill person or individual with an intellectual disability who has been charged with or convicted of a felony and to the person’s attorney of record, if any, of whatever pleadings are filed by the forensic psychiatric facility or psychiatric facility.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 504.085
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Forensic psychiatric facility: means a mental institution or facility, or part thereof, designated by the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for the purpose and function of providing inpatient evaluation, care, and treatment for mentally ill persons or individuals with an intellectual disability who have been charged with or convicted of a felony. See Kentucky Statutes 504.060
- Individual with an intellectual disability: means an individual with significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period and is a condition which may exist concurrently with mental illness or insanity. See Kentucky Statutes 504.060
- Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
Effective: July 12, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 122, effective July 12, 2012. — Created
1994 Ky. Acts ch. 498, sec. 14, effective July 15, 1994.