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RCW Sections

• 72.23.010  Definitions.
• 72.23.020  State hospitals designated.
• 72.23.025  Eastern and western state hospital boards established -- Primary diagnosis of mental disorder -- Duties -- Institutes for the study and treatment of mental disorders established.
• 72.23.027  Integrated service delivery -- Incentives to discourage inappropriate placement -- Specialized care programs.
• 72.23.030  Superintendent -- Powers -- Direction of clinical care, exception.
• 72.23.035  Background checks of prospective employees.
• 72.23.040  Seal of hospital.
• 72.23.050  Superintendent as witness -- Exemptions from military duty.
• 72.23.060  Gifts -- Record -- Use.
• 72.23.080  Voluntary patients -- Legal competency -- Record.
• 72.23.100  Voluntary patients -- Policy -- Duration.
• 72.23.110  Voluntary patients -- Limitation as to number.
• 72.23.120  Voluntary patients -- Charges for hospitalization.
• 72.23.125  Temporary residential observation and evaluation of persons requesting treatment.
• 72.23.130  History of patient.
• 72.23.160  Escape -- Apprehension and return.
• 72.23.170  Escape of patient -- Penalty for assisting.
• 72.23.180  Discharge, parole, death, escape -- Notice -- Certificate of discharge.
• 72.23.190  Death -- Report to coroner.
• 72.23.200  Persons under eighteen -- Confinement in adult wards.
• 72.23.210  Persons under eighteen -- Special wards and attendants.
• 72.23.230  Patient's property -- Superintendent as custodian -- Management and accounting.
• 72.23.240  Patient's property -- Delivery to superintendent as acquittance -- Defense, indemnity.
• 72.23.250  Funds donated to patients.
• 72.23.260  Federal patients -- Agreements authorized.
• 72.23.280  Nonresidents -- Hospitalization.
• 72.23.290  Transfer of patients -- Authority of transferee.
• 72.23.300  Bringing narcotics, intoxicating liquors, weapons, etc., into institution or its grounds prohibited -- Penalty.
• 72.23.390  Safe patient handling.
• 72.23.400  Workplace safety plan.
• 72.23.410  Violence prevention training.
• 72.23.420  Record of violent acts.
• 72.23.430  Noncompliance -- Citation under chapter 49.17 RCW.
• 72.23.440  Technical assistance and training.
• 72.23.451  Annual report to the legislature.
• 72.23.900  Construction -- Purpose -- 1959 c 28.
• 72.23.910  Construction -- Effect on laws relating to the criminally insane -- "Insane" as used in other statutes.

Notes:

Commitment to veterans' administration or other federal agency: RCW 73.36.165. County hospitals: Chapter 36.62 RCW. Division of mental health: Chapter 43.20A RCW. Mental illness, commitment procedures, rights, etc.: Chapter 71.05 RCW. Minors -- Mental health services, commitment: Chapter 71.34 RCW. Out-of-state physicians, conditional license to practice in conjunction with institutions: RCW 18.71.095. Private mental establishments: Chapter 71.12 RCW. Record as to patients or inmates for purposes of vital statistics: RCW 70.58.270. Sexual psychopaths: Chapter 71.06 RCW.