2012 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 50. INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT OF THE MENTALLY ILL; DISCHARGE; PROCEDURE
§ 5002. Determination of mental condition and of procedural compliance as prerequisites to involuntary hospitalization.
Subject to §§ 5121-5123 of this title, no person shall be involuntarily admitted to or confined as a patient at the hospital, and the hospital shall not admit or confine as an involuntary patient any person, unless such person is determined to be a person with a mental condition in accordance with the procedures prescribed by this chapter, and unless the procedural requirements of this chapter are complied with.
60 Del. Laws, c. 95, § 1; 78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §§ 173, 174.;
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