2017 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 28 - Mental Health
RS 28:67 - Petition to the court
§67. Petition to the court
A petition for an order authorizing involuntary outpatient treatment may be filed in the judicial district in the parish in which the patient is present or reasonably believed to be present. A petition to obtain an order authorizing involuntary outpatient treatment may be initiated by one of the following persons:
(1) The director or administrator of a hospital in which the patient is hospitalized.
(2) The director of an emergency receiving center in which the patient is receiving services.
(3) The director of the local governing entity, or his designee, in the parish in which the patient is present or reasonably believed to be present.
(4) Any interested person through counsel with written concurrence of the coroner in the jurisdiction in which the person is found.
Acts 2008, No. 407, §2; Acts 2009, No. 384, §5, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2013, No. 226, §1; Acts 2017, No. 369, §2.
