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and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, which
shall monitor and ensure that prescribed medications are
taken; and

 
(2) The order for release includes the condition that the
person must be returned to the institution immediately
upon the order of the commissioner whenever the person
fails to comply with other conditions of release
ordered by the court; or

 
B. Discharge from the custody of the Commissioner of Health
and Human Services.

 
Release from the institution is subject to annual review by the
court and, except for return as ordered by the commissioner under
paragraph A, subparagraph (1), must continue until terminated by
the court. Each person released under this section shall must
remain in the custody of the commissioner. The Commissioner of
Health and Human Services commissioner shall inform the public
safety officer law enforcement agency of the municipality or the
sheriff's office of the county into which the person is released
of the release.

 
2. Modified release treatment. Any An individual
hospitalized pursuant to section 103 may petition the Superior
Court for the county in which that person is hospitalized for a
release treatment program allowing the individual to be off
institutional grounds for a period of time, not to exceed 14 days
at any one time. The petition must contain a report from the
institutional staff, including at least one psychiatrist, and the
report must define the patient's present condition; the planned
treatment program involving absence from the institution; the
duration of the absence from the institution; the amount of
supervision during the absence; the expectation of results from
the program change; and the estimated duration of the treatment
program before further change. This petition must be forwarded
to the court no later than 60 days prior to the beginning of the
modified treatment program. If the court considers that the
individual individual's being off the grounds, as described in
the treatment plan, is inappropriate, it shall notify the
hospital that the plan is not approved and shall schedule a
hearing on the matter. The clerk of courts upon receipt of the
proposed treatment program shall give notice of the receipt of
this program by mailing a copy to the office of the district
attorney prosecutorial office that prosecuted the criminal
charges of for which the person was acquitted found not
criminally responsible by reason of insanity mental disease or
mental defect, the offices of the district attorneys in whose
district the release petition was filed or in whose district
release may occur and the Attorney General, who may file


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