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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 171-B:2: Involuntary Admission Standard.

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  1. Title XII: PUBLIC SAFETY AND WELFARE
  2. Chapter 171-B: INVOLUNTARY ADMISSION FOR PERSONS FOUND NOT COMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL

The standard to be used by a court, physician, psychologist or psychiatrist in determining whether a person should be admitted on an involuntary basis shall be whether:

I. The person has been charged with a felony involving serious bodily injury or the use of a deadly weapon, or with aggravated felonious sexual assault (other than pursuant to RSA 632-A:2, I(h)) or felonious sexual assault, or with arson pursuant to RSA 634:1, II or III;

II. A district court, superior court, or grand jury has found that probable cause exists that the person committed a felony as set forth in paragraph I;

III. The person is determined to be not competent to stand trial;

IV. The person has an intellectual disability, as defined in the most current edition of the Diagnostic Manual-Intellectual Disability developed by the National Association for the Dually Diagnosed in association with the American Psychiatric Association; and

V. The person has a condition or behavior as a result of which the person poses a potentially serious likelihood of danger to others or a potentially serious threat of engaging in acts which would constitute arson as evidenced by a specific act or actions which may include such act or actions giving rise to the felony charge according to RSA 171-B:2, I.

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