[PART IX.]  CIVIL COMMITMENT FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT

 

Note

 

  Substance abuse screening and referral service at a medical facility's emergency department--pilot program through July 1, 2009.  L 2007, c 178.

 

     [§334-141]  Definitions.  As used in this part:

     "Family member" means any individual who is a member of the immediate family of the person who is the subject of the petition, including spouse, child, parent, grandparent, or any related individual who resides in the same household as the individual who is the subject of the petition.

     "Outpatient treatment" includes any substance abuse treatment provided through individual or group therapy, day or partial day programs, and intensive day treatment and which does not require the individual to reside on a twenty-four-hour basis in the facility for more than three days to benefit from the treatment program.

     "Petitioner" means the family member who applies to the court for an order to require an individual to enter into an outpatient treatment program.

     "Respondent" means the individual who is eighteen years of age or older who is the subject of the petition for a court order to require the individual to enter into an outpatient treatment program. [L 2004, c 44, pt of §20]