2001 Minnesota Statutes

     252A.01 Policy and citation. 

    Subdivision 1.    Policy.  (a) It is the policy of the 
 state of Minnesota to provide a coordinated approach to the 
 supervision, protection, and habilitation of its adult mentally 
 retarded citizens.  In furtherance of this policy, sections 
 252A.01 to 252A.21 are enacted to authorize the commissioner of 
 human services to: 

    (1) supervise those adult mentally retarded citizens who 
 are unable to fully provide for their own needs and for whom no 
 qualified person is willing and able to seek private 
 guardianship or conservatorship under sections 525.539 to 
 525.705; and 

    (2) to protect adult mentally retarded persons from 
 violation of their human and civil rights by assuring that they 
 receive the full range of needed social, financial, residential, 
 and habilitative services to which they are lawfully entitled.  

    (b) Public guardianship or conservatorship is the most 
 restrictive form of guardianship or conservatorship and should 
 be imposed only when no other acceptable alternative is 
 available.  

    Subd. 2.    Citation.  Sections 252A.01 to 252A.21 may 
 be cited as the "Public Guardianship for Adults with Mental 
 Retardation Act."  

    HIST: 1975 c 208 s 1; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1987 c 185 art 1 
 s 1