34-B §1402. Community services - Maine Statutes

Title 34-B: BEHAVIORAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES HEADING: PL 1995, C. 560, PT. K, §7 (RPR); 2001, C. 354, §3 (AMD)

Chapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Subchapter 3: INSTITUTIONS GENERALLY

Article 1: ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

§1402. Community services

1. Commissioner's duty. In every state institution to which a person with mental illness or mental retardation may be committed, the commissioner shall organize and administer the duties set forth in subsection 2.

[ 1995, c. 560, Pt. K, §27 (AMD) .]

2. Duties. The department shall:

A. Supervise clients who have left the institution with a view to their safe care at home, suitable employment and self-support under good working and living conditions, and with a view to prevention of their relapse and return to public dependency; [1983, c. 459, §7 (NEW).]

B. Provide for informing and advising any indigent person, that person's relatives or friends and the representatives of any charitable agency as to:

(1) The mental condition of the indigent person;

(2) The prevention and treatment of the condition;

(3) The available institutions or other means of caring for the person; and

(4) Any other matter relative to the welfare of the person; and [2009, c. 299, Pt. A, §6 (AMD).]

C. Acquire and disseminate knowledge of mental disease, mental retardation and allied conditions with a view to promoting a better understanding and the most enlightened public sentiment and policy in these matters, and in this work the department may cooperate with local authorities, schools and social agencies. [1995, c. 560, Pt. K, §27 (AMD).]

[ 2009, c. 299, Pt. A, §6 (AMD) .]

SECTION HISTORY

1983, c. 459, §7 (NEW). 1995, c. 560, §K27 (AMD). 2009, c. 299, Pt. A, §6 (AMD).