SECTION VI. COERCIVE AND OTHER MEDICAL MEASURES CHAPTER 15. COERCIVE AND OTHER MEDICAL MEASURES Article 90. Coercive and Other Medical Measures (1) Coercive medical measures may be imposed by court on mentally ill offenders in order to treat them and prevent from commission of new socially dangerous acts. (2) Medical measures in combination with sentence may be imposed by court on convicted persons, suffering from alcohol, drug or toxic addiction, in order to treat them and place them in an environment conducive to sentence purpose achievement. Article 91. Applying Coercive Medical Measures Persons that committed socially dangerous acts being mentally insane or being sane but were taken ill with a mental disease prior to the verdict pronouncement or during service of sentence which made them unable to realize or manage one’s actions, may be imposed by court with the following coercive medical measures to be carried out by medical institutions of public health authorities: 1) obligatory outpatient supervision and treatment with a psychiatrist (compulsory examination); 2) placement in a mental hospital under general supervision; 3) placement in a mental hospital under intensified supervision; 4) placement in a mental hospital under close supervision. Article 92. Grounds for Imposing Coercive Medical Measures (1) Obligatory outpatient supervision and treatment with a psychiatrist (compulsory examination) may be prescribed to mentally ill persons not showing signs of exacerbation, as well as to those that suffered a morbid mental disorder, for their active supervision and prevention of disease recurrence and commission of new socially dangerous acts. (2) Compulsory treatment in a mental hospital under general supervision may be prescribed to a patient that needs to be kept in a hospital judging by the mental state and the nature of the socially dangerous act committed. (3) Compulsory treatment in a mental hospital under intensified supervision may be prescribed to a mentally ill person that committed a socially dangerous act not connected with encroachment on people’s lives and does not represent any threat to people, but needs to be kept in a hospital under intensified supervision. (4) Compulsory treatment in a mental hospital under close supervision may be prescribed to a mentally ill person that, based on the mental state and the nature of the committed socially dangerous act represents a special threat to public and needs to be kept in a hospital under close supervision. (5) Persons placed in mental hospitals under intensified or close supervision shall be kept in conditions preventing them from commission of new socially dangerous acts.

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