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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)
C.   Noncourt Involved Admissions; Emergency
397.679   Emergency admission; circumstances justifying.

397.679  Emergency admission; circumstances justifying.--A person who meets the criteria for involuntary admission in s. 397.675 may be admitted to a hospital or to a licensed detoxification facility or addictions receiving facility for emergency assessment and stabilization, or to a less intensive component of a licensed service provider for assessment only, upon receipt by the facility of the physician's certificate and the completion of an application for emergency admission.

History.--s. 6, ch. 93-39.

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