reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
MS Code § 41-30-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment|§ 41-30-15. Rules and regulations

 The division shall adopt, amend, promulgate and enforce such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, including those criteria for approved facilities.
MS Code § 41-30-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment|§ 41-30-17. Inspections

 The division shall periodically inspect all approved facilities at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner.
MS Code § 41-30-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment|§ 41-30-19. Treatment of public intoxicated offenders in lieu of execution of sentence

 The judge of any court, before whom appears an individual charged with a second or subsequent offense of public intoxication, may, upon a plea of guilty or conviction suspend execution of sentence and require the offender to participate in and complete a prescribed course of alcohol abuse treatment and rehabilitation. The judge shall consult with the division to determine the course of treatment best suited to the needs of the convicted person. The convicted person while participating in the course of treatment shall not be considered committed, civilly or criminally, as otherwise provided by law for commitment to any institution; provided that no judge may require in-patient care for a period in excess of ninety (90) days. Upon completion of the course of treatment prescribed by the judge, the sentence shall not be executed. The convicted person, if financially able, shall be responsible for defraying any cost of the prescribed course of treatment.
MS Code § 41-30-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment|§ 41-30-21. Voluntary submission to treatment for alcoholism or drug dependency; application

 Any person may voluntarily apply for treatment for alcoholism, drug addiction, substance dependency or drug dependency, directly to any approved public or private treatment facility. If the patient is a minor or an incompetent, the application for voluntary inpatient, intermediate, or outpatient treatment, and the request for discharge from an inpatient institution, shall be made by his parent, legal guardian, or other representative.
MS Code § 41-30-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment|§ 41-30-23. Voluntary submission to treatment; admission and duration of in-patient treatment

 The administrator in charge of any approved public or private in-patient, out-patient, or intermediate facility, subject to the rules and regulations established by the division, may determine who shall be admitted for treatment; provided no person shall be retained by the treatment facility upon voluntary commitment on an in-patient basis for a period in excess of thirty (30) days.
MS Code § 41-30-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment|§ 41-30-25. After-care treatment and assistance

 Upon his or her discharge from, or upon leaving, an approved public or private treatment facility, a patient who was receiving treatment for alcoholism or for drug addiction or dependency shall be encouraged to consent to appropriate outpatient, intermediate care, or other after-care treatment. If it appears to the administrator in charge of the treatment facility, upon the advice of the attending physician, that the patient is an alcoholic or drug addict who requires such help, the division shall make a reasonable effort to arrange for assistance in obtaining supportive services and residential facilities for the patient, such as maintenance in a hotel or halfway house operated by the division or by any other public or private agency.
MS Code § 41-30-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment|§ 41-30-29. Supplemental nature of provisions for emergency involuntary commitment

 The provisions of subsections (3) and (4) of Section 41-30-27 shall be supplemental and in addition to the provisions of Title 41, Chapter 31, Mississippi Code of 1972, which pertain to commitment of alcoholics.
MS Code § 41-30-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment|§ 41-30-31. Involuntary commitment exceeding five days

 Involuntary commitment of an individual to an approved public or private treatment facility for treatment or rehabilitation for a period in excess of five (5) days shall be according to the provisions of Title 41, Chapter 31, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 41-30-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment|§ 41-30-33. Confidentiality of records; conditions for disclosure

  The registration and other records of services by approved treatment facilities, whether in-patient, intermediate or out-patient, authorized by this chapter, shall remain confidential, and information which has been entered in the records shall be considered privileged information.   No part of the records shall be disclosed without the consent of the person to whom it pertains, but appropriate disclosure may be made without such consent to treatment personnel for use in connection with his treatment and to counsel representing the person in any proceeding held pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 31, Mississippi Code of 1972. Disclosure may also be made without consent upon court order for purposes unrelated to treatment after application showing good cause therefor. In determining whether there is good cause for disclosure, the court shall weigh the need for the information to be disclosed against the possible harm of disclosure to the person to whom such information pertains.
MS Code § 41-30-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment|§ 41-30-35. Charge against person treated and his estate

 Reasonable charges and expenses for the care, maintenance and treatment of alcoholics in any approved public treatment facility under any provision of this chapter shall be a lawful charge against the person and estate of said alcoholic.
MS Code § 41-30-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment|§ 41-30-37. Right of private facility to payment for services

 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter, no approved private treatment facility, whether an out-patient or an in-patient unit, shall be required to accept any person for treatment through commitment proceedings or otherwise, unless adequate arrangements for payment of the cost of such services are made, whether paid by the patient or by the state.
MS Code § 41-31-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment|§ 41-31-1. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them, unless the context requires a different meaning:   "Alcoholic" means any person who chronically and habitually uses alcoholic beverages to the extent that he has lost the power of self-control with respect to the use of such beverages, or any person who, while chronically under the influence of alcoholic beverages, endangers public morals, health, safety or welfare.   "Alcoholic beverage" means alcoholic spirits, liquors, wines, beer, and every liquid or fluid, patented or not, containing alcoholic spirits, wine or beer, which is capable of being consumed by human beings and produces or results in intoxication in any form or degree.   "Alcoholism" means any condition of abnormal behavior or illness resulting directly or indirectly from the chronic and habitual use of alcoholic beverages.   "Drug addict" means any person who chronically and habitually uses any form of habit-forming drugs, such as opioids, opiates and the derivatives thereof, barbiturates, and every tablet, powder, substance, liquid or fluid, patented or not, containing habit-forming drugs if same is capable of being used by human beings and produces drug addiction in any form or degree.   "Drug addiction" means any condition of abnormal behavior or illness resulting directly or indirectly from the chronic and habitual use of habit-forming drugs.   "Hospital" or "institution" means either the Mississippi State Hospital, at Whitfield, Mississippi, or the East Mississippi State Hospital, at Meridian, Mississippi, and shall include the grounds thereof and the facilities used for the treatment of alcoholics and the drug addicts.   "Medical director" means the physician in charge of: (i) Mississippi State Hospital, or (ii) East Mississippi State Hospital, as the case may be.
MS Code § 41-31-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment|§ 41-31-7. Appeals

 Any person who shall be ordered to be committed to an institution as provided in this chapter, and who shall feel aggrieved at such decision, may appeal therefrom to the supreme court of this state by giving notice thereof in the manner provided by law and by furnishing a good and sufficient bond in an amount to be fixed by the chancellor, and to be approved by the clerk of said court, which said bond shall be conditioned to pay all costs of the proceedings and the appeal, and that said person will appear to abide the decision of the court on such appeal. On such appeal, the record shall be made and prepared as in other cases, and all of the provisions of the general law shall apply thereto except that it shall be necessary that the proper notice be given and the requisite bond furnished within five (5) days from the date of the final determination of the chancellor.
MS Code § 41-31-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment|§ 41-31-9. Enforcement of orders

 The chancellor shall have the power to order the issuance of such writs and other process as may be necessary to enforce his orders in such matters, including writs directed to the sheriff of any proper county to take such person into custody and to deliver him to the director of the proper institution. Such writs and other process shall be issued and executed accordingly.
MS Code § 41-31-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment|§ 41-31-11. Transferring of patients; written notification of transfer to committing court

 The medical director of the Mississippi State Hospital or the East Mississippi State Hospital may, subject to the regulations of the board of trustees of mental institutions, transfer alcoholics or drug addicts from one institution used for the commitment of alcoholics and drug addicts to another institution, or from one department in any institution to another as is deemed necessary for their care and treatment. The medical director must provide the committing court with written notification of the transfer, including the name of the facility or program to which the alcoholic or addict is transferred.
MS Code § 41-31-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment|§ 41-31-13. Probation and discharge

 Any person committed to the custody of the Mississippi State Hospital or the East Mississippi Hospital may, notwithstanding the terms of any order of commitment, be permitted by the medical director or his authorized agent, to go at large on probation and without custody or restraint for such time and under such conditions as such medical director shall judge best. All persons committed to the custody of the Mississippi State Hospital or the East Mississippi State Hospital may be discharged by the director pursuant to its regulations, notwithstanding the terms of any order of commitment.
MS Code § 41-31-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment|§ 41-31-15. Costs of commitment and support

 The provisions of the law with respect to the costs of commitment and the cost of support, including the prohibition in Section 41-21-65 regarding the charging of extra fees and expenses to persons initiating commitment proceedings, methods of determination of persons liable therefor, and methods of determination of financial ability, and all provisions of law enabling the state to secure reimbursement of any such items of cost, applicable to the commitment to and support of the mentally ill persons in state hospitals, shall apply with equal force in respect to each item of expense incurred by the state in connection with the commitment, care, custody, treatment, and rehabilitation of any person committed to the state hospitals and maintained in any institution or hospital operated by the State of Mississippi under the provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 41-31-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment|§ 41-31-17. Rights as citizens; confidentiality of records

 No person who is committed to the Mississippi State Hospital or the East Mississippi State Hospital for treatment under the provisions of this chapter shall forfeit or be abridged thereby of any of his or her rights as a citizen of the United States or of the State of Mississippi. The records pertaining to any person committed to the Mississippi State Hospital or the East Mississippi State Hospital for treatment, care, guidance and rehabilitation shall be confidential, and the contents thereof shall not be divulged except on an order of a court of competent jurisdiction or a signed waiver by the person committed. However, information in regard to cancer about any such patients who might have cancer shall be provided to the state board of health as the official tumor registry agency, which information shall be used to provide statistical reports only. The agency shall not divulge any patient's name in regard to any case history nor statistical compilation.
MS Code § 41-31-18 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment|§ 41-31-18. Continuing jurisdiction of court over person committed to inpatient or outpatient treatment for one year after treatment completed; recommitment

 The court shall have continuing jurisdiction over a person committed to an inpatient or outpatient treatment program under this chapter for one (1) year after completion of the treatment program. During that time and upon affidavit in the same cause of action, the court may conduct a hearing consistent with this chapter or Title 41, Chapter 21, Mississippi Code of 1972, to determine whether the person needs to be recommitted for further alcohol and drug treatment or to determine whether the person suffers from a mental or nervous condition or affliction requiring commitment for mental health treatment. Upon a finding by the court that the person is in need of further treatment, the court may commit the person to an appropriate treatment facility. The person subject to commitment must be afforded the due process entitled to him or her under Title 41, Chapters 21 and 31, Mississippi Code of 1972. This section may not be construed so as to conflict with the provisions of Section 41-21-87.
MS Code § 41-31-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment|§ 41-31-19. Commitment proceedings for persons with mental illness committed under this chapter

 The medical director of the hospital may bring commitment proceedings under the provisions of the proper statute in the county wherein the person involved is restrained for commitment to such institution as shall be proper, if said person is found to be suffering from a mental or nervous condition or affliction requiring his adjudication and commitment under said statute.
MS Code § 41-31-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment|§ 41-31-21. Refusal of admittance to certain persons

 If in the opinion of the medical director of the Mississippi State Hospital or the East Mississippi State Hospital, any person willfully and consistently fails to be rehabilitated after three commitments to any state institution, said medical director may refuse further admission to such person notwithstanding the order of any court, unless such person on the fourth or any succeeding commitment be committed by an order of the chancery court as provided by this chapter, and before entering said institution on a fourth or any succeeding commitment, such person, or someone for such person committed, shall pay to said institution the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per month in advance for the care, custody, support and maintenance of such person in said institution.   Such person, or someone for such person, failing or refusing to make the payment herein provided, before admission on a fourth or succeeding commitment, or any time during said commitment, shall be cause for the medical director of such institution to refuse admission of such person committed under this chapter, or to dismiss such person committed under this chapter after commitment.   The monthly payment herein provided shall be a condition precedent to admission of a person on a fourth or subsequent commitment, and shall be made each month thereafter in advance on or before the last day of the preceding month for which payment is due.   There shall be no refunds of the monthly payment herein provided on account of such person committed hereunder having failed to remain a full month at such institution.
MS Code § 41-31-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment|§ 41-31-23. Providing alcoholic beverages to persons in custody of institution

 Any person who shall give, sell, deliver, or otherwise provide any alcoholic beverages or drug, regardless of the quantity thereof, to any person who is confined in an institution or hospital for care and treatment under this chapter for alcoholism or drug addiction shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. However, the staff of such institution or hospital may administer alcohol or drugs in the course of treatment in strict accordance with the prescriptions of a physician of such institution.
MS Code § 41-32-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 32 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts to Private Treatment Facilities|§ 41-32-1. Scope of chapter; involuntary commitment upon judgment of chancery court

 The provisions of this chapter shall be supplemental to the provision of Title 41, Chapters 30 and 31, Mississippi Code of 1972. A person may be involuntarily committed for alcoholism or drug addiction, or both, to a private treatment facility, upon a judgment of the chancery court of the county of such person's residence, or in the county where such person may be found.
MS Code § 41-32-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 32 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts to Private Treatment Facilities|§ 41-32-3. Filing Uniform Alcohol and Drug Commitment Affidavit for judgment of committal

 Any interested person may file a Uniform Alcohol and Drug Commitment Affidavit with the chancery court for a judgment of committal in termtime or in vacation. The affidavit shall state facts to establish: (a) the defendant is an alcoholic or drug addict, i.e., he is powerless over alcohol or drugs, or both, and his life has thereby become unmanageable; (b) defendant's mental and physical health, his continued family life or his position in the community are dependent on his treatment at a chemical dependency unit, alcohol and drug unit, outpatient house or another private treatment facility, or combination of facilities, providing treatment for chemically dependent persons; (c) the defendant has refused to commit himself to such private treatment facility, though having been requested so to do by persons who genuinely care for his well-being; (d) the affiant has selected a particular private treatment facility which, if located in this state, has been approved by the Department of Mental Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse; (e) the affiant has made adequate financial arrangements for defendant's treatment at such facility; and (f) such facility has approved the admission of the defendant, subject to commitment by the chancery court.
MS Code § 41-32-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 32 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts to Private Treatment Facilities|§ 41-32-5. Hearing; presence of attorney; order for commitment; period of confinement

  The chancellor shall schedule with the affiant a time on a day certain for the hearing thereof, not less than five (5) days nor more than twenty (20) days from the filing of the affidavit. The case shall be triable upon three (3) days' service of process and service of notice of the time for the hearing. At the time fixed, the chancellor shall hear the evidence in the presence of the defendant if he will appear, and without the presence of the defendant if he will not appear, and all persons interested shall have the right to appear and present evidence touching upon the truth and correctness of the allegations of the affidavit.   The clerk must ascertain whether the respondent is represented by an attorney, and if it is determined that the respondent does not have an attorney, the clerk immediately must notify the chancellor of that fact. If the chancellor determines that the respondent for any reason does not have the services of an attorney, the chancellor must appoint an attorney for the respondent before a hearing on the affidavit.   If the defendant admits the truth and correctness of the allegations of the affidavit, or if the chancellor shall find from the evidence that the defendant is an alcoholic or drug addict, or both, and is in need of detention, care and treatment in a private treatment facility, and that the other material allegations of the affidavit are true, then the chancellor shall enter a judgment so finding, and shall order that such person be committed to and confined in a chemical dependency unit, alcohol and drug unit, outpatient house or any other private treatment facility, within or outside the state, for the treatment of chemically dependent persons, as the chancellor, in his discretion, deems to be in the best interest of the defendant. Any such order for the commitment of the defendant shall require that the defendant be committed for such period of time as the chancellor shall determine, in his discretion, as is necessary to provide for the care and treatment of the defendant or for such other period of time as may be established by authorized personnel at the designated facility or facilities; however, in no event shall such period of confinement extend beyond a period of eight (8) months. The chancellor may require treatment at a combination of facilities or may designate commitment at an inpatient facility for not more than two (2) months and an outpatient facility for not more than six (6) months, subject to institutional earlier release.