TITLE 46. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Part 12. Mental Health Treatment Court

Purpose

46-1-1202. Purpose. The purpose of this part is to recognize that state courts have a jurisdictional basis to implement mental health treatment courts to reduce recidivism and restore persons with a mental disorder who are charged with a criminal offense to being productive, law-abiding, and taxpaying citizens.

History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 514, L. 2007.