2014 Idaho Statutes
Title 66 - STATE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 3 - HOSPITALIZATION OF MENTALLY ILL
Section 66-330 - TRANSPORTATION -- TEMPORARY DETENTION -- NOTICE.
(b) Pending his removal to the designated place of treatment, a patient taken into custody or ordered to be committed to the custody of the department director pursuant to this chapter may be detained in his home, a licensed foster home, or any other suitable facility under such reasonable conditions as the dispositioner may fix, but he shall not be detained in a nonmedical facility used for the detention of individuals charged with or convicted of penal offenses. The dispositioner shall take such reasonable measures, to secure proper mental health care and treatment of an individual temporarily detained pursuant to this chapter.
(c) The dispositioner shall notify the court, the patient's attorney and either the patient's spouse, guardian, adult next of kin or friend, of the facility to which the patient has been dispositioned.
History:
[(66-330) 1951, ch. 290, sec. 15, p. 622; am. 1959, ch. 207, sec. 9, p. 439; am. 1973, ch. 173, sec. 11, p. 363; am. 1974, ch. 165, sec. 10, p. 1405; am. and redesignated as sec. 66-330, 1981, ch. 114, sec. 20, p. 186; am. 1991, ch. 210, sec. 3, p. 498.]
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