US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  66
                        STATE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
                                  CHAPTER 3
                       HOSPITALIZATION OF MENTALLY ILL
    66-330.  TRANSPORTATION -- TEMPORARY DETENTION -- NOTICE. (a) After the
dispositioner has designated the place of treatment, he shall notify the
facility director of the disposition and of any medical, security or
behavioral needs of the committed patient. The county shall deliver the
patient within forty-eight (48) hours to the designated facility. Whenever
practicable, the individual may be accompanied by one or more of his friends
or relatives.
    (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.