2010 Hawaii Code
DIVISION 1. GOVERNMENT
TITLE 19. HEALTH
334. Mental Health, Mental Illness, Drug Addiction, and Alcoholism
§334-76 OLD REPEALED.

§334-76 [OLD] REPEALED. L 1976, c 130, §9.

§334-76 Discharge from custody. Subject to any special requirements of law as provided in sections 704-406, 704-411, and 706-607 or elsewhere, with respect to patients committed on court order, the administrator of a psychiatric facility, pursuant to section 334-60.7, shall send a notice of intent to discharge or notice of the patient s admission to voluntary inpatient treatment to those persons specified in the order of commitment as entitled to receive notice of intent to discharge and the administrator or the deputy or the physician assuming medical responsibility for the patient shall discharge an involuntary patient when the patient is no longer a proper subject for commitment, as determined by the criteria for involuntary hospitalization in section 334-60.2.

Nothing in this section shall preclude a facility from accepting for voluntary inpatient treatment, in accordance with the procedures in section 334-60.1, a patient for whom the facility contemplates discharge pursuant to section 334-60.7 and who voluntarily agrees to further hospitalization after the period of commitment has expired or where the patient is no longer a proper subject for commitment. [L 1977, c 76, §6; am L 1985, c 68, §10 and c 220, §2; am L 1988, c 44, §3]