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.