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https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-v/6156a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter V - Transitional Services For Adults (§§ 6156 — 6156d)›§ 6156a ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter V - Transitional Services For Adults (§§ 6156 — 6156d) › § 6156a - Transitional services | Institutions that provide transitional services shall, as a minimum, provide the following:
(a) Safe and humane care and custody within an environment with the greatest autonomy possible according to the adult’s treatment, recovery and rehabilitation needs.
(b) The corresponding individualized treatment, recovery and r... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-v/6156b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter V - Transitional Services For Adults (§§ 6156 — 6156d)›§ 6156b ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter V - Transitional Services For Adults (§§ 6156 — 6156d) › § 6156b - Services manuals | Every institution that provides transitional services shall have a services manual, which shall contain, as a minimum, the following:
(a) The admission criteria to be met by adults who request the services.
(b) The age, sex, disorder, diagnosis and level of functionality.
(c) An individualized treatment, recovery and r... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-v/6156c/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter V - Transitional Services For Adults (§§ 6156 — 6156d)›§ 6156c ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter V - Transitional Services For Adults (§§ 6156 — 6156d) › § 6156c - Levels, stages of services | Transitional services shall be developed by levels or stages of services, according to the needs, in the environment with the greatest autonomy possible, as it has been therapeutically indicated.
The levels or stages of service adopted by the institution that provide transitional services shall be designed in accordanc... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-v/6156d/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter V - Transitional Services For Adults (§§ 6156 — 6156d)›§ 6156d ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter V - Transitional Services For Adults (§§ 6156 — 6156d) › § 6156d - Involuntary admission; compulsory treatment | Any adult who meets the necessary criteria to receive transitional services and represents an immediate risk to the self or others, or to property, according to the evaluations and recommendations of the psychiatrist and the inter- or multidisciplinary team, but who does not consent nor is capable of giving consent to ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-vi/6157/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VI - Outpatient Mental Health Services for Adults (§§ 6157 — 61... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VI - Outpatient Mental Health Services for Adults (§§ 6157 — 6157d) › § 6157 - Outpatient mental healthcare ser... | Any adult who resorts to an institutional provider of indirect mental healthcare services in order to start receiving outpatient services at the various levels of care and in the various modalities of treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery, shall receive, among others, the following services during the first seventy-t... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-vi/6157a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VI - Outpatient Mental Health Services for Adults (§§ 6157 — 61... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VI - Outpatient Mental Health Services for Adults (§§ 6157 — 6157d) › § 6157a - Family Planning Program | Any adult who, voluntarily or involuntarily, comes to a profit or non-profit entity that provides mental health and/or drug and/or alcohol rehabilitation services, shall receive from the agency, organization, institution, and/or drug dependent patients” program the following services:
(a) Family planning education prov... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-vi/6157b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VI - Outpatient Mental Health Services for Adults (§§ 6157 — 61... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VI - Outpatient Mental Health Services for Adults (§§ 6157 — 6157d) › § 6157b - Outpatient visits | The number of outpatient visits to mental healthcare services may not be limited by a direct or an indirect mental healthcare service provider, except as provided for in this chapter. The need for outpatient services on an ongoing basis shall be assessed by the inter- or multidisciplinary team or by the mental healthca... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-vi/6157c/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VI - Outpatient Mental Health Services for Adults (§§ 6157 — 61... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VI - Outpatient Mental Health Services for Adults (§§ 6157 — 6157d) › § 6157c - Initial evaluation; treatment, ... | In the case of adults who have been hospitalized or who received services at a level of care, when by recommendations of the psychiatrist and the inter- or multidisciplinary team of the service making the referral, it is found that such adults need treatment at another level of care with greater or lesser autonomy, the... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-vi/6157d/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VI - Outpatient Mental Health Services for Adults (§§ 6157 — 61... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VI - Outpatient Mental Health Services for Adults (§§ 6157 — 6157d) › § 6157d - Service manuals | Every institutional provider of greater-autonomy services shall issue a service manual, which shall contain, at the least, the following:
(a) The admission criteria to be met by adults who request the services.
(b) The age, sex, disorder, diagnosis and level of functionality.
(c) An individualized treatment, recovery a... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-vii/6158/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Servic... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Services (§§ 6158 — 6158e) › § 6158 - Bill of rights | The provisions of this subchapter shall be interpreted so as to protect and promote the dignity of the human being through recognition of the essential rights for his/her treatment, recovery and rehabilitation.
History —Oct. 2, 2000, No. 408, § 7.01, eff. 90 days after Oct. 2, 2000. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-vii/6158a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Servic... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Services (§§ 6158 — 6158e) › § 6158a - Protection of c... | Any minor who receives mental health services shall continue to enjoy all his/her rights, benefits and privileges pursuant to the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of Puerto Rico, as well as state and federal laws, while he/she is receiving treatment, recovery and rehabilitation, and dur... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-vii/6158b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Servic... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Services (§§ 6158 — 6158e) › § 6158b - Presumption of ... | It is presumed that all minors are mentally competent, except when otherwise found by the court. The judicial finding of disability under § 2342 of Title 31, shall be distinct and separate from the judicial proceeding to determine whether a minor should be subject to involuntary placement. It shall be presumed that all... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-vii/6158c/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Servic... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Services (§§ 6158 — 6158e) › § 6158c - Limitation of r... | The rights established by this chapter for minors who receive mental health services may apply to minors liable for offenses or held in juvenile institutions, and to minor offenders in detention, provided they are not in conflict with the security measures imposed by the court.
History —Oct. 2, 2000, No. 408, § 7.04, e... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-vii/6158d/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Servic... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Services (§§ 6158 — 6158e) › § 6158d - General rights | Any minor who receives mental health services shall have the right to:
(a) Receive medical, psychiatric and psychological attention in its preventive, clinical, recovery and rehabilitation phases for the protection of his/her health and general well being.
(b) Receive education and training, when his/her condition perm... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-vii/6158e/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Servic... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VII - Bill of Rights of Minors Who Receive Mental Health Services (§§ 6158 — 6158e) › § 6158e - Specific rights | Any minor who receives mental healthcare services shall be entitled to the following specific rights:
(a) Access to services. — Every minor shall have access to mental healthcare services in accordance with the specialties and sub-specialties by stage of life, gender, age, and level of care, depending on his/her diagno... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159 - Levels of care | Mental healthcare services for minors shall be rendered in a therapeutically adequate setting according the greatest autonomy, pursuant to the mental healthcare system concept and befitting the diagnosis and severity of symptoms and signs at the time the person is evaluated. The levels of mental healthcare shall be org... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159a - Minors who require mental healthcare ... | Any minor with a mental disorder with a severity of symptoms and signs at the time of the evaluation indicating that he/she might inflict physical harm upon him/herself or others or damage property, or when he/she has issued significant threats that might yield the same outcome, or when the condition of the minor for w... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159b - Purposes of the petition for mental h... | Mental health services for minors shall be requested with one (1) or more of the following purposes:
(a) Carry out a process of screening, comprehensive evaluation and disposition.
(b) Receive treatment, recovery and rehabilitation modalities.
(c) Obtain orientation, education and to be placed in support or transitiona... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159c/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159c - Mental healthcare services requested ... | A request for services for a minor may be lodged with an institutional provider or with a direct or an indirect mental healthcare service provider by:
(a) The minor him/herself, if fourteen (14) years of age or older, if he/she requests outpatient services as provided for in § 6161 of this title, and if, in the judgmen... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159d/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159d - Screening, comprehensive evaluation a... | (1) Every petition or request for a level of mental health services with greater autonomy shall be initially handled with a screening process to determine the nature of the minor’s problem and the need for mental health services. The screening process shall consist of, among others:
(a) Advising the minor and his/her p... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159e/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159e - Initial evaluation of minors institut... | (1) Any minor who, voluntarily or involuntarily, begins to receive mental healthcare services at an emergency room shall receive the following services, among others, within twenty-four (24) hours:
(a) Medical record.
(b) A physical examination.
(c) Laboratory tests, when necessary to rule out physiological or organic ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159f/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159f - Certification of acceptance of custod... | When a minor is admitted or hospitalized in a providing institution, its director or its representative shall sign a certification accepting custody of the minor and guaranteeing that the minor shall be subject to humanitarian, responsible and adequate treatment, in accordance with his/her needs. Said certification sha... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159g/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159g - Therapeutic restraints for minors | (a) Restraints shall be applied only at hospital institutions, live-in treatment institutions for minors, and centers that have emergency acute care wards, and be used as established in the protocols of standards of the best practices of mental healthcare and pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. Restraints shall... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159h/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159h - Therapeutic seclusion | (a) Seclusion shall only be employed as a therapeutic measure to keep the minor from inflicting harm upon him or herself or others or from damaging property. Its use shall be circumscribed to hospital institutions, live-in treatment institutions for minors, and centers that have emergency acute care wards. Before seclu... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159i/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159i - Electroconvulsive therapy | No minor shall receive electroconvulsive therapy treatment without the previous informed consent and express authorization from one of the following:
(a) The minor’s parent with patria potestas or custody, or legal guardian, upon the opinion of one (1) child and adolescent psychiatrist, in consensus with the inter- or ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159j/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159j - Request for placement | Any minor, through his/her parent with legal or physical custody, his/her legal guardian, or surrogate parent, may tender a request for placement at an institutional provider for treatment, recovery and rehabilitation as pertains to a mental disorder. The request shall be made in writing and may be accompanied by a ref... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159k/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159k - Review of the clinical status | Within seventy-two (72) hours of [the] minor’s admission, the child and adolescent psychiatrist, jointly with the inter- or multidisciplinary team, shall review the minor’s clinical status and clinical record in order to determine the need to continue the treatment at the current level. If [an] extension is necessary, ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159l/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159l - Emergency placement | In case of emergency, any person over the age of eighteen (18) may seek forwarding the request for placement of a minor, after making all the necessary efforts to locate the minor’s parent with legal or physical custody or legal guardian. The minor shall be evaluated immediately by the child and adolescent psychiatrist... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159m/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159m - Request for admission by public or pr... | The authorized representative of a government or private agency may process a request for an evaluation for admission to a mental health hospital institution in behalf of a minor who is in its custody, provided the minor meets the criteria of admission to the institution and complies with the requisites established in ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159n/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159n - Treatment, recovery, and rehabilitati... | The court may consider other levels of care which accord greater autonomy if the child and adolescent psychiatrist, jointly with the inter- or multidisciplinary team, so recommends, as per the diagnosis and the severity of symptoms and signs at the time, as these are therapeutically indicated, before determining whethe... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159o/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159o - Involuntary admission | Any minor who meets the necessary clinical criteria to receive mental health services, but his/her parent with patria potestas or custody, or legal guardian does not consent to it or is not capable of consenting to it, shall be evaluated to determine if he/she qualifies for involuntary admission or compulsory treatment... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159p/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159p - Petition for a fifteen (15)-day invol... | (a) Every petition for involuntary admission for a maximum of fifteen (15) days, shall be accompanied by a certification from the child and adolescent psychiatrist, of if unavailable, a general psychiatrist after consulting with the former, which shall be known as the first certification. This first certification shall... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159q/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159q - Petition for extension of involuntary... | When deemed necessary, the court may order an extension for hospitalization, which shall not exceed fifteen (15) additional days. To that effect, the director of the mental health institution or his/her representative, per ser or by request from the minor’s parent with patria potestas or custody, or legal guardian, sha... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159r/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159r - Petition for release by parent with p... | When the parent with patria potestas or custody, legal guardian or person with provisional custody requests that the minor involuntarily admitted be released, he/she shall be released within twenty-four (24) hours after the petition.
If the director of the institution has well-founded motives to object to the petition ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159s/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159s - Request for discharge; change in stat... | Within twenty-four (24) hours after the request for discharge, the minor shall be evaluated by a child and adolescent psychiatrist together with the inter- or multidisciplinary team, in order to find whether the minor poses immediate danger to him/herself, to others, or to any property as shown by violent or consistent... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159t/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159t - Hearings | (a) Hearings shall be held before a court with jurisdiction, pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of Civil Procedure in effect.
(b) The minor shall be present at the hearing together with his/her parent with legal custody or his/her legal guardian, and represented by his/her attorney.
(c) If the court, motu proprio ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159u/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159u - Right to legal representation | Every minor object of a petition to order involuntary admission shall have the right to be represented by an attorney or family advocate, according to availability. If the minor is indigent and has not been able to hire an attorney, the court shall appoint an attorney. The attorney appointed by the court and his/her cl... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159v/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159v - Transfer of minor | Any minor who receives mental health services and is in a providing institution, may request to be transferred if said transfer is necessary and without detriment to the minor, provided he/she and the receiving institution accept the transfer. The minor, closest family member or legal guardian shall be notified of the ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159w/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159w - Passes | In those cases in which is it clinically necessary or beneficial, the child and adolescent psychiatrist, jointly with the inter- or multidisciplinary team, may grant [a] pass to the minor admitted voluntarily or involuntarily, even when he/she is not fit to be released. In these cases, the court shall not need to be no... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159x/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159x - Releases | The child and adolescent psychiatrist in charge of the treatment, recovery and rehabilitation may release any minor admitted voluntarily or involuntarily, at any time after having consulted with the inter- or multidisciplinary team. The psychiatrist shall notify the parent with patria potestas or custody, or the legal ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-viii/6159y/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y)›§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter VIII - Mental Health Care System for Minors (§§ 6159 — 6159y) › § 6159y - Leaving of the institution without be... | When the minor subject to involuntary admission leaves the institution without having been released, the director shall immediately notify a police officer so that he/she may be apprehended and returned to the institution. In addition, he/she shall notify the parent with patria potestas, or the legal guardian and the p... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-ix/6159z/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d)›§ 6159... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d) › § 6159z - Live-in treatment programs for minors | (a) Purposes. — Live-in treatment for minors is a treatment modality sub-specialized in the area of child and adolescent mental healthcare, designed specifically for minors with mental health conditions which are difficult to manage at their homes or in their communities, who, despite adequate management by parents or ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-ix/6160/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d)›§ 6160... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d) › § 6160 - Purposes of transitional services for minor... | Transitional services for minors shall be designed to provide experiences that are structured, consistent and specialized at different levels of supervision, befitting the severity of symptoms and signs of the disorder in question by age and gender, while successfully enabling the minor to adapt to his/her environment ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-ix/6160a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d)›§ 6160... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d) › § 6160a - Obligations of transitional service instit... | Institutional providers of live-in treatment for minors shall provide, at the very least, the following:
(a) The individualized treatment, recovery and rehabilitation, emphasizing the skills that are necessary for everyday life given his/her clinical condition, the severity of the symptoms and signs, his/her stage of l... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-ix/6160b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d)›§ 6160... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d) › § 6160b - Service manuals | Institutional providers of transitional services shall provide, at the very least, the following:
(a) Safe and humane care and custody, within the setting that accords the greatest autonomy possible, befitting the treatment, recovery and rehabilitation needs of the minor.
(b) Individualized treatment, recovery and reha... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-ix/6160c/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d)›§ 6160... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d) › § 6160c - Levels, stages, or services | Transitional services for minors shall be developed by levels, progress stages, or services, in order to enable the minor’s evaluation and classification as his/her needs dictate and the placement of such minor in the therapeutically indicated setting that accords the greatest autonomy possible.
The levels, stages, or ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-ix/6160d/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d)›§ 6160... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter IX - Transitional Services for Minors (§§ 6159z — 6160d) › § 6160d - Involuntary placement; mandatory treatment | All minors who meet the necessary criteria to receive transitional services for minors as per the evaluations and the recommendations by the child and adolescent psychiatrist and the inter- or multidisciplinary team, but whose parents with legal or physical custody, legal guardian, or surrogate parent does not give con... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-x/6161/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter X - Mental Health Services with Greater Autonomy for Minors (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter X - Mental Health Services with Greater Autonomy for Minors (§§ 6161 — 6161c) › § 6161 - Contingent right to re... | Any minor between fourteen (14) and eighteen (18) years of age may request and receive counseling or psychotherapy and, if necessary, receive outpatient mental healthcare treatment for a maximum period of six (6) sessions if the child and adolescent psychiatrist, physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-x/6161a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter X - Mental Health Services with Greater Autonomy for Minors (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter X - Mental Health Services with Greater Autonomy for Minors (§§ 6161 — 6161c) › § 6161a - Greater-autonomy serv... | Any minor who begins to receive direct outpatient services in mental healthcare at the various levels of care and treatment, rehabilitation and recovery modalities, or any such minor for whom such services are requested, shall receive, among others, the following services within the first seventy-two (72) hours:
(a) A ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-x/6161b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter X - Mental Health Services with Greater Autonomy for Minors (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter X - Mental Health Services with Greater Autonomy for Minors (§§ 6161 — 6161c) › § 6161b - Initial evaluation; t... | Any minor who has been hospitalized or who received services at a level of care, when by recommendations of the child and adolescent psychiatrist and the inter- or multidisciplinary team of the service making the referral, it is found that such minor needs treatment at another level of care which accords greater or les... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-x/6161c/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter X - Mental Health Services with Greater Autonomy for Minors (§§... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter X - Mental Health Services with Greater Autonomy for Minors (§§ 6161 — 6161c) › § 6161c - Services manuals | Every institution that provides services with greater autonomy shall have a services manual, which shall contain, as a minimum, the following:
(a) The admission criteria to be met by minors who request the services.
(b) The age, sex, disorder, diagnosis and level of functionality.
(c) An individualized treatment, recov... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xi/6162/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Ins... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Institutions that Provide Mental Health Services to... | The court shall order, motu proprio or by petition of party, that those minors who have been accused of offenses or who have been found liable for offenses be evaluated at institutional providers of mental healthcare services for minors, insofar as the presence of [a mental] disorder needs to be confirmed or ruled out.... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xi/6162a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Ins... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Institutions that Provide Mental Health Services to... | If after the evaluation, it should be found that the minor under court jurisdiction suffers from a mental disorder, the court shall order that an inter- or multidisciplinary individualized treatment, recovery and rehabilitation plan be prepared and implemented, which shall include all specialized services needed. Each ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xi/6162b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Ins... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Institutions that Provide Mental Health Services to... | If as a result of the court-ordered evaluation, the child and adolescent psychiatrist, in consultation with the inter- or multidisciplinary team, finds that the minor is chargeable or prosecutable and that he/she has a mental disorder, the court, upon finding the minor liable for an offense and ordering his/her placeme... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xi/6162c/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Ins... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Institutions that Provide Mental Health Services to... | When the court has acquitted a minor from the commission of an offense, but the evaluation shows that he/she has a mental disorder, the minor shall be referred to the mental healthcare service recommended in said evaluation. The court shall issue a fifteen (15) -day involuntary placement order. If the fifteen (15)-day ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xi/6162d/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Ins... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Institutions that Provide Mental Health Services to... | Before the court makes a final decision on the case, the inter- or multidisciplinary team responsible for minor’s treatment, recovery and rehabilitation shall prepare a report including the level of care, bearing in mind that it is therapeutically indicated and with greater autonomy, including the interagency coordinat... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xi/6162e/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Ins... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XI - Evaluation of Minors under the Court’s Jurisdiction in Institutions that Provide Mental Health Services to... | Every court order shall be in writing, duly sealed and signed, and shall be accompanied by a clear and precise determination made by the court with respect to the minor’s situation.
Copy of the order shall be given to the parent with patria potestas, or legal guardian, or the person with provisional custody of the mino... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xii/6163/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e)›§ 6163 - Manifesta... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e) › § 6163 - Manifestations of the mental health problem | It is hereby acknowledged that the different manifestations of mental problems and disorders, such as domestic violence, crime, delinquency, child abuse, truancy, and the homeless population fall within the responsibility of different government service agencies, which [results in] fragmented attention to the problem. ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xii/6163a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e)›§ 6163a - Principl... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e) › § 6163a - Principles of the collaborative system | The principles that govern this system are:
(a) Avoid duplication of service efforts.
(b) Provide long term and cost-effective services.
(c) Keep a system to improve the quality of the services.
(d) Provide the most comprehensive services possible close to their communities [of the] populations who need them.
History —... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xii/6163b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e)›§ 6163b - Work pla... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e) › § 6163b - Work plan | This system shall develop a master work plan which shall specify its stages, purposes, objectives, activities, and achievements, execution and result indicators, as well as the implementation dates by agencies and the populations to be served (children, adolescents, women, mothers, homeless and others), and the agencie... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xii/6163c/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e)›§ 6163c - Types of... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e) › § 6163c - Types of collaborations | It is hereby established that this system may use several types and models of interagency collaborations, such as the integration of physical and professional resources, the blended budget for a project or creation and access to a service, collaborative planning, and complementary planning.
It is worth mentioning that ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xii/6163d/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e)›§ 6163d - Reports | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e) › § 6163d - Reports | This system shall render [semi-annual and annual] reports to the Office of Management and Budget and to the Legislature, with the evaluations that according to the field, are designated as formative and summative, pursuant to this section.
History —Oct. 2, 2000, No. 408, § 12.05, eff. 90 days after Oct. 2, 2000. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xii/6163e/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e)›§ 6163e - Effectiv... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XII - Collaborative System (§§ 6163 — 6163e) › § 6163e - Effectiveness | The effectiveness for the implementation of this system shall begin ninety (90) days after approval of this act, to begin interagency collaborative efforts.
History —Oct. 2, 2000, No. 408, § 12.06, eff. 90 days after Oct. 2, 2000. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xiii/6164/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XIII - Treatments Related to the Abuse and Dependence on Alcoho... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XIII - Treatments Related to the Abuse and Dependence on Alcohol and Controlled Substances (§§ 6164 — 6164a) › ... | The treatment of persons with substance-related disorders, including comorbid conditions diagnosed, who suffer from substance or alcohol dependency, shall require the intervention of an interdisciplinary team constituted by mental healthcare professionals, as determined by the study of the individual case conducted ini... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xiii/6164a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XIII - Treatments Related to the Abuse and Dependence on Alcoho... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XIII - Treatments Related to the Abuse and Dependence on Alcohol and Controlled Substances (§§ 6164 — 6164a) › ... | For-profit or nonprofit community-based organizations, as this term is defined in this chapter, and spiritual-pastoral guidance and social work, shall be subject to the precepts of this chapter. Provided, That such organizations shall continue to offer community services, pursuant to their historic, traditional and ord... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xiv/6165/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XIV - General Responsibilities of the Mental Health and Addicti... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XIV - General Responsibilities of the Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration (§§ 6165 — 6165d) › §... | The Administrator, as authorized by Act No. 67-1993, as amended, known as the ‘Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration Act’ (ASSMCA, Spanish acronym), shall promulgate regulations as are necessary to license, supervise, and keep a public registry of all the institutions and facilities, whether public or pri... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xiv/6165a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XIV - General Responsibilities of the Mental Health and Addicti... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XIV - General Responsibilities of the Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration (§§ 6165 — 6165d) › §... | The Administrator is hereby authorized to prepare all regulations that may be necessary to facilitate the implementation of this chapter, within a term of six (6) months after the approval of this act, and pursuant to §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Uniform Administrative Procedures Act of the Commonwealth of... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xiv/6165b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XIV - General Responsibilities of the Mental Health and Addicti... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XIV - General Responsibilities of the Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration (§§ 6165 — 6165d) › §... | The Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration and the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration shall prepare all the forms that may be necessary to fully comply with their obligations and responsibilities. They shall oversee the implementation of these provisions as pertains to users and public and private... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xiv/6165c/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XIV - General Responsibilities of the Mental Health and Addicti... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XIV - General Responsibilities of the Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration (§§ 6165 — 6165d) › §... | The Administrator shall establish and implement a review and technical assistance system of the providing institutions to assure quality and effectiveness of the services rendered, and to protect the best interest of the persons who receive mental health services. He/She shall design and implement a service, technical ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xiv/6165d/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XIV - General Responsibilities of the Mental Health and Addicti... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XIV - General Responsibilities of the Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration (§§ 6165 — 6165d) › §... | The Administrator, as authorized by §§ 402 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “The Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration Act”, shall be responsible for procuring and assuring the appropriation of the budgetary funds necessary to facilitate the implementation of and compliance with this chapter. It shall be ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xv/6166/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g)›§ 6166 - Claim of ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g) › § 6166 - Claim of abuse | Any person who receives direct or indirect mental health services and who, per se, through his/her legal guardian or any other person, has well-founded motive to believe that abuse has been committed, may resort to the Court of First Instance to request to cease and desist of any act that violates the provisions of thi... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xv/6166a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g)›§ 6166a - Abuse; n... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g) › § 6166a - Abuse; notice to the Examining Board or regulating age... | If [it is] determined that a mental health professional has incurred in abuse or negligence, the court shall notify said determination to the corresponding Examining Board or the Board of Examiners.
Presentation of an action pursuant to this section is independent from any other civil criminal or administrative action ... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xv/6166b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g)›§ 6166b - Institut... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g) › § 6166b - Institutionalization prohibited | Any institutional mental healthcare provider facility which is found to have institutionalized a person, whether an adult or a minor, who does not meet the clinical criteria nor present the severity that warrants his/her placement at the level of care where he/she has been kept, after symptoms and signs have been stabi... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xv/6166c/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g)›§ 6166c - Habeas c... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g) › § 6166c - Habeas corpus | Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a person from filing a writ of habeas corpus. The court that grants said remedy shall send a copy of the same to the court that ordered the admission. The clerk of the court shall include the same in the record of the case.
History —Oct. 2, 2000, No. 408, § 15.04, eff. 90 days afte... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xv/6166d/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g)›§ 6166d - Petition... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g) › § 6166d - Petition to the court | Any petition filed before the court, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall be subscribed under oath, under penalty of perjury. If there is well-founded motive to believe that the petitioner has offered false information to admit a person in a providing institution, a prosecutor shall be notified immediately... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xv/6166e/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g)›§ 6166e - Petition... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g) › § 6166e - Petition for restoration to competency | Any person who has been declared incompetent by any court, may file a petition at any time to amend guardianship or to have his legal competency restored. The petition may be filed in the court that resolved that the person was incompetent, or in the court in whose jurisdiction the person resides. The petition shall be... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xv/6166f/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g)›§ 6166f - Notice o... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g) › § 6166f - Notice of death of persons in the institution | When a patient who was admitted to an institution dies within the same, the director shall be obliged to notify the corresponding prosecuting office so that an autopsy is ordered. The proceedings shall be carried out pursuant to §§ 3001 et seq. of Title 34, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Forensic Sciences Act”.... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-201a/subchapter-xv/6166g/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g)›Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g)›§ 6166g - Penaltie... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 201A - Mental Health Code of 2000 (§§ 6152 — 6166g) › Subchapter XV - Additional Provisions (§§ 6166 — 6166g) › § 6166g - Penalties | (a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall incur in a misdemeanor and if convicted, shall be sanctioned with a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000).
(b) Any person, natural or juridical, who discriminates in relation to any aspect relative to the access to necessary services fo... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-204/6179/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184)›§ 6179 - Statement of public policy | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184) › § 6179 - Statement of public policy | It is hereby established as the public policy of the Government of Puerto Rico to stimulate the social and economic development of the family, in order to attain its maximum progress and emotional stability. For this, it is necessary to implement strategies geared towards detecting compulsive gamblers to provide them a... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-204/6180/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184)›§ 6180 - Definitions | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184) › § 6180 - Definitions | The following terms and phrases contained in this chapter shall have the meanings stated below:
(a) Administration. — The Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration.
(b) Program. — The Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program.
(c) Administrator. — The Administrator of the Mental Health and Addiction Services Adm... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-204/6181/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184)›§ 6181 - Creation | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184) › § 6181 - Creation | The Program is hereby created, attached to the Administration. The Program shall use the resources designated thereto through this chapter, in order to prepare procedures, forms, strategies, and other necessary procedures, to guarantee the implementation and development of the services that are to be provided to the af... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-204/6182/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184)›§ 6182 - Duties and powers | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184) › § 6182 - Duties and powers | The Program shall have, among others, the following duties and powers:
(a) Manage the funds appropriated for said project within the laws and regulations in effect.
(b) Procure additional funds through proposals and take any other steps before federal, Commonwealth, municipal or private sector agencies or programs to d... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-204/6183/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184)›§ 6183 - Reports | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184) › § 6183 - Reports | The Administrator shall submit to the Legislature, within a term of sixty (60) work days, at the end of each fiscal year, a report on the development and progress of the Program. Said report shall include used funds, persons assisted, and an evaluation of the measures that shall be implemented to achieve the purposes o... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-viii/chapter-204/6184/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184)›Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184)›§ 6184 - Powers to regulate | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART VIII - Mental Health (§§ 4001-6151 — 6184) › Chapter 204 - Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Program (§§ 6179 — 6184) › § 6184 - Powers to regulate | The Administrator is hereby empowered to adopt the necessary regulations to achieve the purposes of this chapter, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Uniform Administrative Procedures Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”.
History —Apr. 6, 2006, No. 74, § 7, eff. July 1, 2007. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-i/7001/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter I - Legislative Intention (§ 7001)›§ 7001 - Declaration of legis... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter I - Legislative Intention (§ 7001) › § 7001 - Declaration of legislative intention | As part of a radical reform of the health services in Puerto Rico, this chapter is established to create the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration. It is a public corporation with full authority to develop the functions entrusted by this chapter.
The Administration shall have the responsibility to implement, admi... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-ii/7002/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter II - Definitions (§ 7002)›§ 7002 - Terms and phrases | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter II - Definitions (§ 7002) › § 7002 - Terms and phrases | For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning set forth below:
(a) Administration.— Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration.
(b) Beneficiary alliances.— Groups of beneficiaries represented by the Administration in the negotiation of the health plan coverage benefits they n... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7003/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7003 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7003 - Creation | A public corporation is hereby created, as an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, under the name of Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration. The Administration shall have existence in perpetuity with a juridical personality, independent and separate from any other entity, agency, department or instr... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7004/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7004 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7004 - Purposes, functions and powers | The Administration shall be the government body in charge of implementing the provisions of this chapter. To such purposes, it shall have the following powers and functions which shall rest on its Board of Directors:
(a) To implement medical-hospital service plans based on health insurance.
(b) To negotiate and contrac... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7004a/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7004a -... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7004a - Authorization for financing | (a) The Administration is hereby authorized to incur obligations up to the principal of one hundred eighty-seven million dollars ($187,000,000) under the terms and conditions approved by the Board of Directors and the Government Development Bank, which is the fiscal agent of the Government of Puerto Rico and its instru... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7004b/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7004b -... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7004b - Authorization for revolving financing | (a) The Administration is hereby authorized to incur obligations through a revolving credit line in an amount to be determined by the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico in accordance with and guaranteed by the amount of federal funds proceeding from the Federal Government Medicaid Program to be disbursed to Pu... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7005/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7005 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7005 - Board of Directors—Composition | The Board of Directors of the Administration shall be composed of eleven (11) members. Six (6) shall be ex-officio members and five (5) shall be appointed by the Governor of Puerto Rico with the advice and consent of the Senate.
History —Sept. 7, 1993, No. 72, Art. IV, § 3; Apr. 11, 2001, No. 12, § 1; Aug. 23, 2005, No... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7006/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7006 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7006 - Board of Directors—Ex-officio members | The Secretaries of Health and the Treasury, the Administrator of the Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration (ASSMCA), the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the President of the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, and the Insurance Commissioner, or the persons delegated by them, shal... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7007/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7007 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7007 - Board of Directors—Qualifications | The five (5) members of the Board of Directors who are not ex-officio members shall be persons of recognized moral integrity. Of these, one (1) shall be a professional competent in the insurance industry; two (2) shall be competent providers within the Health Reform, of which one shall be a primary physician; one shall... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7008/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7008 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7008 - Board of Directors—Incumbency | The members of the Board of Directors that are not ex officio members shall be appointed for a term of six (6) years each, and shall hold office until their successors have been appointed. The original appointments shall be one (1) for two (2) years; one (1) for four (4) years; and two (2) for six (6) years.
In the eve... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7009/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7009 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7009 - Board of Directors—Officials | The Governor of Puerto Rico shall appoint the chairperson of the Board of Directors from among its members. The Board of Directors shall select from among its members: a co-chairperson, who shall substitute for the chairperson in his/her absence, as well as a secretary.
History —Sept. 7, 1993, No. 72, Art. IV, § 7. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7010/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7010 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7010 - Board of Directors—Meetings and quorum | (a) The Board of Directors shall hold regular meetings at least once (1) a month and shall hold all the special meetings that may be convoked by the Chairperson or that may be requested by a majority of the members of the Board.
(b) The majority of the members of the Board of Directors shall constitute quorum for the m... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7011/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7011 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7011 - Board of Directors—Compensation | The ex officio members of the Board of Directors shall not receive any remuneration for the performance of their duties. Those members of the Board of Directors that are not public officials or employees, shall be entitled to the payment of per diems which shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for each meeting th... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7012/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7012 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7012 - Board of Directors—Removal | The members of the Board of Directors that are not ex officio members may be removed by the Governor of Puerto Rico for incompetence in the performance of their duties, or by for other just cause, after proffering of charges and the opportunity to be heard before the Board.
History —Sept. 7, 1993, No. 72, Art. IV, § 10... |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7013/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7013 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7013 - Board of Directors—Applicability of the provis... | The members of the Board of Directors shall be subject to the provisions of §§ 1801 et seq. of Title 3, known as “Ethics in Government Act of Puerto Rico”, especially with respect to the filing of financial reports by public officials required by said dispositions.
History —Sept. 7, 1993, No. 72, Art. IV, § 11. |
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-four/part-ix/chapter-301/subchapter-iii/7014/ | PR | Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010)›PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075)›Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054)›Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014)›§ 7014 - ... | 2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART IX - Health Insurance (§§ 7001 — 7075) › Chapter 301 - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7001 — 7054) › Subchapter III - Health Insurance Administration (§§ 7003 — 7014) › § 7014 - Board of Directors—Immunity | Neither the Board of Directors nor its directors shall personally or individually incur any economic liability whatsoever for any action taken in the discharge of their duties and powers under this chapter, provided they do not act in violation of their fiduciary duties towards the Administration, nor act intentionally... |
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