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2001-2002 vol. 149 IV pt.2 7705 (2001)

handle is hein.ssl/ssoh0013 and id is 1 raw text is: 7705 ( 24th General Assembly) (Substitute House Bill Number 355) AN ACT To amend section 5120.17 of the Revised Code to modify the administrative procedures for inmate transport or transfer to psychiatric hospitals. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 5120.17 of the Revised Code be amended as follows: Sec. 5120.17. (A) As used in this section: (1) Mental illness means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life. (2) Mentally ill person subject to hospitalization means a mentally ill person to whom any of the following applies because of the person's mental illness: (a) The person represents a substantial risk of physical harm to the person as manifested by evidence of threats of, or attempts at, suicide or serious self-inflicted bodily harm. (b) The person represents a substantial risk of physical harm to others as manifested by evidence of recent homicidal or other violent behavior, evidence of recent threats that place another in reasonable fear of violent behavior and serious physical harm, or other evidence of present dangerousness. (c) The person represents a substantial and immediate risk of serious physical impairment or injury to the person as manifested by evidence that the person is unable to provide for and is not providing for the person's basic physical needs because of the person's mental illness and that appropriate provision for those needs cannot be made immediately available in the conmunity correctional institution in which the inmate is currently housed. (d) The person would benefit from treatment in a hospital for the person's mental illness and is in need of treatment in a hospital as manifested by evidence of behavior that creates a grave and imminent risk to substantial rights of others or the person.

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