2002 Minnesota Statutes

CHAPTER 246B. The sexual psychopathic personality treatment center

     246B.01 Minnesota sexual psychopathic personality 
  treatment center; definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.    Applicability.  The definitions in 
 this section apply to this chapter. 

    Subd. 2.    Commissioner.  "Commissioner" means the 
 commissioner of human services or the commissioner's designee. 

    Subd. 3.    Sexual psychopathic personality.  "Sexual 
 psychopathic personality" has the meaning given in section 
 253B.02, subdivision 18b. 

    Subd. 4.    Sexually dangerous person.  "Sexually 
 dangerous person" has the meaning given in section 253B.02, 
 subdivision 18c. 

    HIST: 1Sp1993 c 1 art 7 s 27; 1Sp1994 c 1 art 2 s 25; 1997 c 
 217 art 1 s 3,4 

     246B.02 Establishment of Minnesota Sexual Psychopathic 
  Personality Treatment Center. 

    The commissioner of human services shall establish and 
 maintain a secure facility located in Moose Lake.  The facility 
 shall be known as the Minnesota Sexual Psychopathic Personality 
 Treatment Center.  The facility shall provide care and treatment 
 to 100 persons committed by the courts as sexual psychopathic 
 personalities or sexually dangerous persons, or persons admitted 
 there with the consent of the commissioner of human services. 

    HIST: 1Sp1993 c 1 art 7 s 28; 1Sp1994 c 1 art 2 s 26 

     246B.03 Licensure. 

    The commissioner of human services shall apply to the 
 commissioner of health to license the Minnesota Sexual 
 Psychopathic Personality Treatment Center as a supervised living 
 facility with applicable program licensing standards. 

    HIST: 1Sp1993 c 1 art 7 s 29; 1Sp1994 c 1 art 2 s 27 

     246B.04 Rules; evaluation. 

    The commissioner of human services shall adopt rules to 
 govern the operation, maintenance, and licensure of the program 
 established at the Minnesota Sexual Psychopathic Personality 
 Treatment Center, or at any other facility operated by the 
 commissioner, for persons committed as a psychopathic 
 personality.  The commissioner shall establish an evaluation 
 process to measure outcomes and behavioral changes as a result 
 of treatment compared with incarceration without treatment, to 
 determine the value, if any, of treatment in protecting the 
 public. 

    HIST: 1Sp1993 c 1 art 7 s 30; 1994 c 529 s 3; 1Sp1994 c 1 art 
 2 s 28