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2002 Florida Code
TITLE XXIX PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 397 SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES  
PART V INVOLUNTARY ADMISSIONS PROCEDURES (ss. 397.675-397.6977)
B.   Noncourt Involved Admissions: Protective Custody
397.6771   Protective custody with consent.

397.6771  Protective custody with consent.--A person in circumstances which justify protective custody, as described in s. 397.677, may consent to be assisted by a law enforcement officer to his or her home, to a hospital, or to a licensed detoxification or addictions receiving facility, whichever the officer determines is most appropriate.

History.--s. 6, ch. 93-39; s. 740, ch. 95-148.

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