2012 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 50. INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT OF THE MENTALLY ILL; DISCHARGE; PROCEDURE
§ 5003. Provisional hospitalization by psychiatrist's certification.

No person shall be involuntarily admitted to the hospital as a patient except pursuant to the written certification of a psychiatrist that based upon the psychiatrist's examination of such person, such person suffers from a disease or condition which requires the person to be observed and treated at a mental hospital for the person's own welfare and which either renders such person unable to make responsible decisions with respect to the person's hospitalization, or poses a present threat, based upon manifest indications, that such person is likely to commit or suffer serious harm to that person's own self or others or to property, if not given immediate hospital care and treatment. The certificate shall state with particularity the behavior and symptoms upon which the psychiatrist's opinion is based, shall include (where available) the name and address of the spouse or other nearest relative or person of close relationship to the alleged person with a mental condition, and shall state that such person is not willing to accept hospital care and treatment on a voluntary basis or that the person is incapable of voluntarily consenting to such care and treatment.

60 Del. Laws, c. 95, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 78 Del. Laws, c. 179, § 175.;