§ 630.003 Department created — state mental health commission — Missouri institute of ..
§ 630.005 Definitions
§ 630.006 Intellectually disabled and intellectual disability, use of terms — revisor ..
§ 630.010 Mental health commission — members, terms, qualifications, appointment, ..
§ 630.015 Director, appointment — duties of commission
§ 630.020 Departmental goals, duties
§ 630.025 Director to head department — compensation — not to have private practice — ..
§ 630.030 Division directors, appointment, removal — appointment of other general ..
§ 630.035 Appointment of facility heads, medical staffs
§ 630.040 Facility administrative officers to have general charge and control
§ 630.045 Appointment of persons for civil involuntary detention actions
§ 630.050 Rules, promulgation, procedure — public inspection — facility policies
§ 630.053 Mental health earnings fund — uses — rules and regulations, procedure
§ 630.055 Research activities by department
§ 630.060 Cooperation with other groups
§ 630.065 Planning activities by department
§ 630.070 Workers’ compensation law extended to employees of department
§ 630.075 Personnel recruitment, development and training
§ 630.080 State auditor may examine records — personally identifiable information not ..
§ 630.085 Annual report by director, to whom, when, contents
§ 630.090 Department to receive federal grants and aids, when — administration — ..
§ 630.095 Copyrights and trademarks by department
§ 630.097 Comprehensive children’s mental health service system to be developed — ..
§ 630.108 Interaction between physical and mental health, guidelines for screening ..
§ 630.110 Patient’s rights — limitations
§ 630.115 Patient’s entitlements — administrative review of violations
§ 630.120 No presumptions
§ 630.125 Explanation of rights and entitlements
§ 630.127 Notification protocols — rulemaking authority
§ 630.130 Electroconvulsive therapy, procedure — prohibitions — attorney’s fees
§ 630.133 Psychosurgery, consent required — not to be performed by department
§ 630.135 Rules regarding patient’s rights
§ 630.140 Records confidential, when — may be disclosed, to whom, how, when — release ..
§ 630.145 Department to release information to next of kin and persons responsible ..
§ 630.150 Disclosure of absence to be made, when, to whom
§ 630.155 Mistreatment of patient — defined — penalty
§ 630.160 Furnishing unfit food — defined — penalty
§ 630.161 Investigation of reports of vulnerable person abuse, when
§ 630.162 Mandatory reporters — preventing or discouraging reporting, penalty
§ 630.163 Mandatory reporting requirements
§ 630.164 Immunity from liability, when
§ 630.165 Suspected abuse of patient, report, by whom made, contents — effect of ..
§ 630.167 Investigation of report, when made, by whom — abuse prevention by removal, ..
§ 630.168 Suspected abuse to be reported
§ 630.170 Disqualification for employment because of conviction — appeal process — ..
§ 630.175 Physical and chemical restraints prohibited, exceptions — requirements for ..
§ 630.180 Treatment by religious practice to be permitted
§ 630.183 Officers may authorize medical treatment for patient
§ 630.186 Purchase of food limited to that for use of patients
§ 630.192 Limitations on research activities in mental health facilities and programs
§ 630.193 Professional review committee to make recommendations to director — ..
§ 630.194 Professional review committee to review proposals, make report and ..
§ 630.196 Research review committee at department facilities — committee members, ..
§ 630.198 Duties of research review committee
§ 630.199 Research involving persons civilly detained, sections applicable
§ 630.200 Discrimination prohibited
§ 630.202 Essential caregiver designation, procedure, requirements
§ 630.205 Patient or representative liable for costs of services rendered — parents ..
§ 630.210 Charges for pay patients — each facility considered a separate unit — ..
§ 630.215 Pay patient, how determined — estate of patient, court to notify director ..
§ 630.220 Court actions by department on behalf of institutions — interest on ..
§ 630.225 Pay patient to be provided suitable clothing before admission — may receive ..
§ 630.305 Funds of patient, control, expenditure, return, safekeeping
§ 630.310 Receipt of funds of patient, procedure
§ 630.315 Department may become payee for patient, procedure
§ 630.320 Disposition of unclaimed funds of patient — escheats, procedure
§ 630.325 Disposition of unclaimed personal property of patient
§ 630.330 Department may receive gifts — disposal of gift property — mental health ..
§ 630.335 Canteens and commissaries authorized — operation
§ 630.340 Sheltered workshops and activity centers authorized — operation
§ 630.350 Limitation on bank accounts
§ 630.405 Purchase of services, procedure — commissioner of administration to ..
§ 630.407 Administrative entities may be recognized, when — contracting with vendors ..
§ 630.410 Evaluation of contracts
§ 630.415 Terms of contracts
§ 630.420 Affiliation agreements from vendors required
§ 630.425 Incentive grants authorized — rules and regulations — duration of grants
§ 630.430 Commissioner of administration to make rules and regulations for incentive ..
§ 630.435 Affiliation agreements from grantees required
§ 630.440 Payment to grantees, procedure
§ 630.445 Records required of vendors or grantees, contents — access for inspection
§ 630.450 Duplication of programs to be avoided
§ 630.455 Attorney general to seek restitution for department
§ 630.460 Overpayment, defined — overpayment reimbursement request by department, ..
§ 630.462 Contractors for community psychiatric rehabilitation, reviews, how conducted
§ 630.505 Department to name facilities
§ 630.510 Inventory of facilities — plan for new facilities
§ 630.525 Destruction of obsolete structures — procedure
§ 630.535 Unneeded property may be transferred to another state agency — procedure
§ 630.540 Proposed transfers and conveyances to be reviewed
§ 630.545 Board and living quarters for employees of facilities
§ 630.546 Lease purchase agreement authorized for use of facilities constructed by ..
§ 630.550 Centralized supply warehouses established, costs — mental health central ..
§ 630.575 Council created, members, duties, terms, meetings
§ 630.580 Education and awareness programs established — cooperation of state agencies
§ 630.605 Placement programs to be maintained
§ 630.610 Applications for placement — criteria to be considered
§ 630.615 Program standards to be considered — prior to placement
§ 630.620 Facilities and programs to be utilized in making placements
§ 630.625 Consent required for placement
§ 630.630 Alternative proposals to be prepared
§ 630.635 Procedure when consent not given — review panel to be named — notice and ..
§ 630.640 Costs of benefits may be paid by department — recovery
§ 630.645 Follow-up care
§ 630.650 Cooperation with department of social services
§ 630.655 Rules for standards for placement facilities and programs — required standards
§ 630.656 Waiver or exception request of administrative rule or standard, procedure
§ 630.660 Written contracts required
§ 630.705 Rules for standards for facilities and programs for persons affected by ..
§ 630.710 Required standards
§ 630.715 Licensing of residential facilities and day programs — fee — affidavit
§ 630.717 Alcohol and drug abuse facilities and programs exempt — fire, safety ..
§ 630.720 Issuance of license, term — temporary permits, when — may be transferable — ..
§ 630.725 Denial or revocation — appeal — determination by administrative hearing ..
§ 630.730 Inspection by department and others, when — may be ordered, when
§ 630.735 License required
§ 630.740 Penalty for failure to obtain license — attorney general to represent ..
§ 630.745 Noncompliance with law revealed by inspection — procedure — corrective ..
§ 630.750 Procedure upon finding of noncompliance which may present health or safety ..
§ 630.755 Injunctive relief may be requested — action to have priority — civil ..
§ 630.760 Patients to have same rights as those for residents of nursing homes
§ 630.763 Receiver may be requested, by whom, when
§ 630.766 Monitor may be assigned by department — to advise operator as to compliance ..
§ 630.769 Venue for appointment of receiver — copy of petition to be provided — ..
§ 630.772 Emergency procedure
§ 630.775 Powers and duties of receiver
§ 630.778 Receiver may disregard certain contracts — factors to be considered — court ..
§ 630.781 Compensation of receiver
§ 630.784 Receiver may receive license
§ 630.787 Receivership may be terminated by court, when
§ 630.790 Accounting of receiver, when — judgment for deficiencies — priority of ..
§ 630.793 Liabilities of receivers and licensees
§ 630.805 Nonresidents may be returned to place of residence, when — reciprocal ..
§ 630.810 Compact enacted — form
§ 630.815 Director of department to make rules — cooperate in administration
§ 630.820 Supplementary agreements authorized, when effective
§ 630.825 Expenses, how paid
§ 630.830 Transfer of patient, duty of administrator
§ 630.835 Copies of law furnished other states
§ 630.850 Compact enacted — form
§ 630.855 Contracts authorized, limitations
§ 630.875 Citation of law — definitions — program created, purpose — requirements — ..
§ 630.925 Mental health fatality review panel established, members, duties
§ 630.927 Rulemaking authority
§ 630.945 Maximum and intermediate facilities, work hours limited — exception for ..
§ 630.950 Immunity from liability, when
§ 630.975 Rulemaking authority — disclosure of records, when
§ 630.1000 Office of comprehensive child mental health established, duties — staff ..
§ 630.1005 Comprehensive child mental health clinical advisory council established, ..
§ 630.1150 v2 Foster children with mental illness, continued hospitalization of — ..
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws > Chapter 630 - Department of Mental Health

  • Acquittal:
    1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    2. A verdict of "not guilty."
     
  • Administrative entity: a provider of specialized services other than transportation to clients of the department on behalf of a division of the department. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Alcohol abuse: the use of any alcoholic beverage, which use results in intoxication or in a psychological or physiological dependency from continued use, which dependency induces a mental, emotional or physical impairment and which causes socially dysfunctional behavior. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • 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.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Chemical restraint: medication administered with the primary intent of restraining a patient who presents a likelihood of serious physical injury to himself or others, and not prescribed to treat a person's medical condition. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Client: any person who is placed by the department in a facility or program licensed and funded by the department or who is a recipient of services from a regional center, as defined in section 633. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Commission: the state mental health commission. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Consumer: a person:

    (a) Who qualifies to receive department services. See Missouri Laws 630.005

  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Day program: a place conducted or maintained by any person who advertises or holds himself out as providing prevention, evaluation, treatment, habilitation or rehabilitation for persons affected by mental disorders, mental illness, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities or alcohol or drug abuse for less than the full twenty-four hours comprising each daily period. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: the department of mental health of the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Developmental disability: a disability:

    (a) Which is attributable to:

    a. See Missouri Laws 630.005

  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Director: the director of the department of mental health, or his designee. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Drug abuse: the use of any drug without compelling medical reason, which use results in a temporary mental, emotional or physical impairment and causes socially dysfunctional behavior, or in psychological or physiological dependency resulting from continued use, which dependency induces a mental, emotional or physical impairment and causes socially dysfunctional behavior. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Guardian: if used in a section in a context relating to property rights or obligations, means conservator of the estate as defined in chapter 475. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Habilitation: a process of treatment, training, care or specialized attention that seeks to enhance and maximize a person with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability to cope with the environment and to live as determined by the person as much as possible, as is appropriate for the person considering his or her physical and mental condition and financial means. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Habilitation center: a residential facility operated by the department and serving only persons who are developmentally disabled. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Head of the facility: the chief administrative officer, or his designee, of any residential facility. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • hereafter: means the time after the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Heretofore: means any time previous to the day when the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Incompetent: if used in a section in a context relating to actual occupational ability without reference to a court adjudication of incompetency, means the actual ability of a person to perform in that occupation. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Intellectual disability: significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning which:

    (a) Originates before age eighteen. See Missouri Laws 630.005

  • Investigator: an employee or contract agent of the department of mental health who is performing an investigation regarding an allegation of abuse or neglect or an investigation at the request of the director of the department of mental health or his designee. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Least restrictive environment: a reasonably available setting or mental health program where care, treatment, habilitation or rehabilitation is particularly suited to the level and quality of services necessary to implement a person's individualized treatment, habilitation or rehabilitation plan and to enable the person to maximize his or her functioning potential to participate as freely as feasible in normal living activities, giving due consideration to potentially harmful effects on the person and the safety of other facility or program clients and public safety. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. Source: U.S. Mint
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mental disorder: any organic, mental or emotional impairment which has substantial adverse effects on a person's cognitive, volitional or emotional function and which constitutes a substantial impairment in a person's ability to participate in activities of normal living. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Mental illness: a state of impaired mental processes, which impairment results in a distortion of a person's capacity to recognize reality due to hallucinations, delusions, faulty perceptions or alterations of mood, and interferes with an individual's ability to reason, understand or exercise conscious control over his actions. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Minor: any person under the age of eighteen years. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Month: means a calendar month, and "year" means a calendar year unless otherwise expressed, and is equivalent to the words year of our Lord. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Patient: an individual under observation, care, treatment or rehabilitation by any hospital or other mental health facility or mental health program pursuant to the provisions of chapter 632. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Place of residence: means the place where the family of any person permanently resides in this state, and the place where any person having no family generally lodges. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Rehabilitation: a process of restoration of a person's ability to attain or maintain normal or optimum health or constructive activity through care, treatment, training, counseling or specialized attention. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Residence: the place where the patient has last generally lodged prior to admission or, in case of a minor, where his family has so lodged. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Resident: a person receiving residential services from a facility, other than mental health facility, operated, funded or licensed by the department. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Residential facility: any premises where residential prevention, evaluation, care, treatment, habilitation or rehabilitation is provided for persons affected by mental disorders, mental illness, intellectual disability, developmental disabilities or alcohol or drug abuse. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Specialized service: an entity which provides prevention, evaluation, transportation, care, treatment, habilitation or rehabilitation services to persons affected by mental disorders, mental illness, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities or alcohol or drug abuse. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Vendor: a person or entity under contract with the department, other than as a department employee, who provides services to patients, residents or clients. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Vulnerable person: any person in the custody, care, or control of the department that is receiving services from an operated, funded, licensed, or certified program. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Ward: if used in a section in a context relating to the property rights and obligations of a person, means a protectee as defined in chapter 475. See Missouri Laws 1.020