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Title 21 - Fiduciary Relations and Persons with Mental Illness. [Enacted title]
Chapter 5 - Hospitalization of Persons with Mental Illness.
Subchapter VI - Miscellaneous Provisions.
- § 21–581. Proceedings instituted by Mayor of the District of Columbia.
- § 21–582. Petitions, applications, or certificates of physicians or qualified psychologists.
- § 21–583. Physicians, psychiatrists and qualified psychologists as witnesses.
- § 21–584. Witness fees.
- § 21–585. Confinement in jail prohibited.
- § 21–586. Financial responsibility for care of hospitalized persons; judicial enforcement.
- § 21–587. Veterans’ Administration and military hospital facilities.
- § 21–588. Forms.
- § 21–589. Persons hospitalized prior to September 15, 1964.
- § 21–589.01. Interim provisions for term of commitment.
- § 21–590. Discharge as cured; restoration to legal status. [Repealed]
- § 21–591. Offenses and penalties.
- § 21–592. Return to hospital of an escaped mentally ill person.
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