South Dakota legal term
Mental health response team in South Dakota Criminal Law
Current through 2026 South Dakota legislative session
In South Dakota criminal law, “Mental health response team” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the South Dakota criminal code.
What does “Mental health response team” mean in South Dakota criminal law?
(1) "Mental health response team," a support team tasked with finding viable community resources to help persons with severe mental illness involved in the court system; (2) "Psychiatric certification," a credential obtained by passing the psychiatric-mental health nursing board certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center; and (3) "Telehealth," a mode of delivering healthcare services that utilizes information and communication technologies to enable the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of patients at a distance from health (SDCL § 23A-50-1)
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