§ 10-625. Emergency involuntary admission

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   (a) Placement. -- If an emergency evaluee meets the requirements for an involuntary admission and is unable or unwilling to agree to a voluntary admission under this subtitle, the examining physician shall take the steps needed for involuntary admission of the emergency evaluee to an appropriate facility, which may be a general hospital with a licensed inpatient psychiatric unit.

(b) Inability to place. --

   (1) If the examining physician is unable to have the emergency evaluee admitted to a facility, the physician shall notify the Department.

   (2) Within 6 hours after notification, the Department shall provide for admission of the emergency evaluee to an appropriate facility.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 59, § 22; 1982, ch. 21, § 2; 1990, ch. 500.

                    
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