State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Illinois > Chapter405 > 1496 > 040500050HCh_III_Art_X (405 ILCS 5/3‑1000) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3‑1000) Sec. 3‑1000. (a) A person may be admitted pursuant to any of the provisions of this Chapter to a mental health facility of the United States government when the facility determines that services for the person are available and that the person is eligible to receive them. A person so admitted is subject to the rules and regulations of the Veterans Administration or other agency of the United States government which operates the facility in which such treatment is provided. (b) The chief officer of such facility has with respect to a person admitted under this Chapter, the same powers and duties as the facility director. (c) A person employed by the Veterans Administration as a physician may perform the functions of a physician under this Act insofar as relates to a person who is or is proposed to be admitted to a Veterans Administration facility. (Source: P.A. 80‑1414.) |
(405 ILCS 5/3‑1001) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3‑1001) Sec. 3‑1001. The courts of this State retain jurisdiction over persons admitted under this Article for purposes of enforcing the provisions of this Act. (Source: P.A. 80‑1414.) |
(405 ILCS 5/3‑1002) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3‑1002) Sec. 3‑1002. Whenever any person who is a veteran and who has been previously adjudicated as having a mental illness or under legal disability is subsequently rated as being under no legal disability by the Veterans Administration, the Director of the Veterans Administration Regional Office which has so rated the veteran may notify the court which found that the person has a mental illness or under legal disability of such rating. The court may restore the person to legal status without disability on the basis of the documents filed or may order a hearing. (Source: P.A. 88‑380.) |
(405 ILCS 5/3‑1003) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 3‑1003) Sec. 3‑1003. The Veterans Administration or other agency of the United States Government may transfer any recipient admitted to it under this Article, to any other facility of the Veterans Administration or any other agency of the United States government, to any licensed private hospital which has agreed to accept the recipient or, subject to the approval of the Department, to a Department facility. The Department may transfer any recipient admitted to a Department facility, to a facility of the Veterans Administration or other appropriate agency of the United States Government, subject to eligibility and the prior approval of the agency. If a recipient transferred under this Section was admitted upon a court order, the transferring facility or agency shall give notice of the transfer to the court which entered the order of admission, and such order of admission shall continue in effect. (Source: P.A. 88‑380.) |
