§ 16-36-1.5-5 — Consent by mentally incompetent patient

Indiana § 16-36-1.5-5

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 16: HEALTH
• Art. 36: MEDICAL CONSENT
• Ch. 1.5: Consent for Mental Health Services

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(a) This section applies to a patient who:
(1) receives mental health services; and
(2) is mentally incompetent.
(b) A patient described in subsection (a) shall provide consent for
mental health treatment through the informed consent of one (1) of the
following:
(1) The patient's legal guardian or other court appointed
representative.
(2) The patient's health care representative under IC 16-36-1.
(3) An attorney in fact for health care appointed under IC 30-5-5-16.
(4) The patient's health care representative acting in accordance
with the patient's psychiatric advance directive as expressed in a
psychiatric advance directive executed under IC 16-36-1.7.
(5) The patient's health care representative conferred under IC 16-36-7.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.145-1996, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.149-1997, SEC.4; P.L.16-2004, SEC.2; P.L.50-2021, SEC.38.