Illinois Compiled Statutes 45 ILCS 40 — Interstate Compact on Mental Health Act.

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Short title. This Act may be cited as the Interstate Compact on Mental Health Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

The Interstate Compact on Mental Health is approved and adopted as law in this State and entered into by this State with all other states, as defined in paragraph (h) of Article II of such Compact, which legally join therein. The form and substance of such Compact is substantially as follows: The contracting States sol…

Pursuant to such compact, the Secretary of Human Services is designated as the Compact Administrator and, acting jointly with like officers of other party states, shall have power to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms of the compact. The compact administrator is authorized, empower…

The compact administrator is authorized and empowered to enter into supplementary agreements with appropriate officials of other states pursuant to Articles VII and XI of the compact

The compact administrator is authorized and empowered to enter into supplementary agreements with appropriate officials of other states pursuant to Articles VII and XI of the compact. In the event that such supplementary agreements shall require or contemplate the use of any institution or facility of this state or req…

The compact administrator may make or arrange for any payments necessary to discharge any financial obligations imposed upon this state by the compact or by any supplementary agreement entered into thereunder. (Source: Laws 1965, p. 1809.)

Whenever the Compact Administrator receives a request for the transfer of a service recipient from a Department facility to an institution in another party state such request shall include a consent for transfer from the following person or persons: 1. The parent or guardian of a recipient of service who has not attain…