2012 Utah Code
Title 62A - Utah Human Services Code
Article 15 - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Act
Section 636 - Periodic review -- Discharge.


UT Code § 62A-15-636 (2012) What's This?

62A-15-636. Periodic review -- Discharge.

Each local mental health authority or its designee shall, as frequently as practicable, examine or cause to be examined every person who has been committed to it. Whenever the local mental health authority or its designee determines that the conditions justifying involuntary commitment no longer exist, it shall discharge the patient. If the patient has been committed through judicial proceedings, a report describing that determination shall be sent to the clerk of the court where the proceedings were held.


Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 8, 2002 Special Session 5

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