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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
A person may be ordered to participate in assisted outpatient treatment if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the person:
A. is eighteen years of age or older and is a resident of a participating municipality or county;
B. has a primary diagnosis of a mental disorder;
C. has demonstrated a history of lack of compliance with treatment for a mental disorder that has:
(1) at least twice within the last forty-eight months, been a significant factor in necessitating hospitalization or necessitating receipt of services in a forensic or other mental health unit or a jail, prison or detention center; provided that the forty-eight-month period shall be extended by the length of any hospitalization, incarceration or detention of the person that occurred within the forty-eight-month period;
(2) resulted in one or more acts of serious violent behavior toward self or others or threats of, or attempts at, serious physical harm to self or others within the last forty-eight months; provided that the forty-eight-month period shall be extended by the length of any hospitalization, incarceration or detention of the person that occurred within the forty-eight-month period; or
(3) resulted in the person being hospitalized, incarcerated or detained for six months or more and the person is to be discharged or released within the next thirty days or was discharged or released within the past sixty days;
D. is unwilling or unlikely, as a result of a mental disorder, to participate voluntarily in outpatient treatment that would enable the person to live safely in the community without court supervision;
E. is in need of assisted outpatient treatment as the least restrictive appropriate alternative to prevent a relapse or deterioration likely to result in serious harm to self or likely to result in serious harm to others; and
F. will likely benefit from, and the person's best interests will be served by, receiving assisted outpatient treatment.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New Mexico Statutes Chapter 43. Commitment Procedures § 43-1B-3. Assisted outpatient treatment; criteria - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nm/chapter-43-commitment-procedures/nm-st-sect-43-1b-3/
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