Minn. Stat. § 246.0012
Definitions
The definitions in chapter 246C apply to this chapter.
Minnesota Statutes Chapter 246 — State-Operated Services
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Provisions
Minn. Stat. § 246.0141
Tobacco Use Prohibited
Subdivision 1. General prohibition on tobacco use. A patient, staff, guest, or visitor on the grounds or in a state regional treatment center, the Minnesota Security Hospital, or the Minnesota Sex Offender Program must not possess or use tobacco or a tobacco-related device. Subd. 2. Exception to prohibition on tobacco…
Minn. Stat. § 246.13
Records of Persons Receiving State-Operated Services
Subdivision 1. Executive board record responsibilities. (a) The chief executive officer or a designee shall have, accessible only by consent of the executive board or on the order of a judge or court of record, a record showing: (1) the residence, sex, age, nativity, occupation, civil condition, and date of entrance or…
Minn. Stat. § 246.141
Project Labor
Wages for project labor may be paid by the executive board out of repairs and betterments money if the individual performing project labor is engaged in a construction project or a repair project of short-term and nonrecurring nature. Compensation for project labor must be based on the prevailing wage rates, as defined…
Minn. Stat. § 246.15
Money of Patients or Residents
Subdivision 1. Record keeping of money. The head of the state-operated services facility or a designee, may receive and maintain custody of all money belonging to patients or residents under the jurisdiction of the executive board. The head of the state-operated services facility or a designee shall keep accurate accou…
Minn. Stat. § 246.151
Compensation Paid to Patient
Subdivision 1. Compensation. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the executive board is authorized to pay patients or residents of state institutions such pecuniary compensation as required by the United States Department of Labor. Payment of subminimum wages must meet all requirements of United States Department…
Minn. Stat. § 246.16
Unclaimed Money or Personal Property
Subdivision 1. Unclaimed money. When a patient or resident in a state-operated services facility under the jurisdiction of the executive board dies or is absent without authorization leaving money in the control of the head of the facility or a designee, and there is no claimant or person entitled to the money known to…
Minn. Stat. § 246.18
Disposal of Funds
Subdivision 1. Generally. Except as provided in subdivision 4, every officer and employee of the several institutions under the jurisdiction of the executive board who has money belonging to an institution shall pay the money to the chief financial officer or a designee of that institution. At the close of each month,…
Minn. Stat. § 246.325
Garden of Remembrance
The cemetery located on the grounds of the former Cambridge State Hospital shall be known as the Garden of Remembrance.
Minn. Stat. § 246.33
Cemetery
Subdivision 1. Cemetery and burial for individual in a state institution. The executive board may establish and maintain a cemetery for the burial of any patient, inmate, or person admitted to any state institution under control of the executive board upon the public grounds of such institution in the manner set forth…
Minn. Stat. § 246.34
Reinterment
Subdivision 1. Requirements for reinterment. The executive board must comply with all provisions of this section to exhume the body of any person now buried in a cemetery situated on the land belonging to the state for public institution purposes and reinter the remains in a cemetery created under the provisions of sec…
Minn. Stat. § 246.35
Abandonment of Cemetery; Court Order
The district court of the county where a cemetery exists on the grounds of a state institution may issue an order authorizing the abandonment and discontinued use of such cemetery when the executive board files affidavits attesting: (1) to all exhumations completed under section 246.34; and (2) that the executive board…
Minn. Stat. § 246.50
Care of Clients at State Facilities; Definitions
Subdivision 1. Scope. For the purposes of sections 246.50 to 246.55, the terms set out in this section shall have the meanings ascribed to them. Subd. 2. MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 38 art 3 s 87] Subd. 3. State facility. "State facility" means any state facility owned or operated by the state of Minnesota and under the…
Minn. Stat. § 246.51
Payment for Care and Treatment; Determination
Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 2009 c 79 art 3 s 19] Subd. 1a. Clients in state-operated community-based programs; determination. The executive board shall determine available health plan coverage from a health plan company for services provided to clients admitted to a state-operated community-based program. If the health…
Minn. Stat. § 246.511
Relative Responsibility
Except for substance use disorder services paid for with money provided under chapter 254B, the executive board must not require under section 246.51 a client's relatives to pay more than the following: (1) for services provided in a community-based service, the noncovered cost of care as determined under the ability t…
Minn. Stat. § 246.52
Payment for Care; Order; Action
(a) The executive board shall issue an order to the client or the guardian of the estate, if applicable, and relatives determined able to pay requiring them to pay to the state of Minnesota the amounts determined under sections 246.51 and 246.511, not to exceed the full cost of care. The order must specifically state t…
Minn. Stat. § 246.53
Claim Against Estate of Deceased Client
Subdivision 1. Client's estate. Upon the death of a client who received services, the executive board shall file a claim against the estate of the individual for the total cost of care provided to the client, less the amount actually paid toward the cost of care by the client and the client's relatives in the court hav…
Minn. Stat. § 246.531
Subrogation of Insurance Settlements
Subdivision 1. Subrogation to client's rights. The executive board shall be subrogated, to the extent of the cost of care for services given, to the rights a client who receives treatment or care at a state facility may have under private health care coverage. The right of subrogation does not attach to benefits paid o…
Minn. Stat. § 246.54
Liability of County; Reimbursement
Subdivision 1. Generally. Except for substance use disorder services provided under sections 254B.01 to 254B.09, the client's county shall pay to the state of Minnesota a portion of the cost of care provided in a regional treatment center or a state nursing facility to a client for which the county is the county of fin…
Minn. Stat. § 246.55
Appeal from Order of Executive Board
Clients or relatives aggrieved by an order of the executive board under sections 246.50 to 246.55 may appeal from the order to the district court of the county in which they reside by serving notice of the appeal on the executive board and filing the notice, with proof of service, in the office of the court administrat…
Minn. Stat. § 246.554
Purpose of Regional Treatment Centers
The primary mission of the regional treatment centers for persons with major mental illness is to provide inpatient psychiatric hospital services. The regional treatment centers are part of a comprehensive mental health system. Regional treatment center services must be integrated into an array of services based on ass…
Minn. Stat. § 246.555
Persons Admissible to Regional Treatment Centers
Subdivision 1. State-operated substance use disorder treatment. The executive board shall maintain a regionally based, state-administered system of substance use disorder programs. Counties may refer individuals who are eligible for services under chapter 254B to the substance use disorder units in the regional treatme…
Minn. Stat. § 246.56
Work Activity for Certain Patients or Residents
Subdivision 1. Therapeutic work activities. The executive board is hereby authorized to establish work activity programs for the purpose of providing therapeutic work activities for regional treatment center patients with mental illness and regional treatment center residents with developmental disabilities. The execut…
Minn. Stat. § 246.57
Shared Service Agreements
Subdivision 1. Authorized. The Direct Care and Treatment executive board may authorize any state-operated services to enter into agreement with other governmental entities and both nonprofit and for-profit organizations for participation in shared service agreements that would be of mutual benefit to the state, other g…
Minn. Stat. § 246.575
Provision of Nursing Home Services
Subdivision 1. Nursing home care. (a) The executive board shall provide nursing home care to a person requiring and eligible for that level of care when the person: (1) is medically fragile or clinically challenging; (2) exhibits severe or challenging behaviors; or (3) requires treatment for an underlying mental illnes…
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