CHC 906 - Required review hearings; commitment to mental institution - Louisiana Statutes

Art. 906. Required review hearings; commitment to mental institution

A. The medical staff of a mental institution to which a child is committed or placed by the Department of Health and Hospitals after the child has been found not guilty by reason of insanity or after a court determines that the child lacks mental capacity to proceed shall review the child's record after the first sixty days, again after one hundred twenty days of commitment, and every one hundred eighty days thereafter.

B. The purpose of these reviews is to determine the child's present mental condition and whether he is presently capable of being discharged, conditionally or unconditionally, or being placed on probation, without being a danger to others or himself, or is presently capable of proceeding.

C. The department or the superintendent of the private institution shall make such recommendations to the court as provided in Article 835 or Article 838.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §8, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.