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2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title X - Public Health
Title 135-C - New Hampshire Mental Health Services System
Section 135-C:62 - Custody and Transportation.
Universal Citation: NH Rev Stat § 135-C:62 (2021)
135-C:62 Custody and Transportation. –
I. Except as provided in RSA 135-C:29, any law enforcement officer shall take custody of persons who are subject to proceedings for involuntary emergency admission; involuntary admission, or temporary revocation of a conditional discharge under RSA 135-C in the following circumstances:
(a) Upon completion of an involuntary emergency admission certificate in accordance with RSA 135-C:28, I;
(b) Upon issuance by a justice of the peace of an order for a compulsory mental examination pursuant to RSA 135-C:28, II;
(c) Upon a finding of probable cause at an involuntary emergency admission hearing held pursuant to RSA 135-C:31;
(d) Upon issuance of an order for involuntary admission pursuant to RSA 135-C:45;
(e) Upon issuance of an order for an examination pursuant to RSA 135-C:51, II;
(f) Upon a determination by a psychiatrist at a county mental health program to revoke a conditional discharge temporarily pursuant to RSA 135-C:51, III; or
(g) As necessary to ensure the presence of the person at hearings or examinations conducted under this chapter, to effect a transfer between receiving facilities, or to carry out any other lawful order of a court.
II. A law enforcement officer shall also transport any persons taken into custody to the appropriate receiving facility, court, place of examination, or other location.
I. Except as provided in RSA 135-C:29, any law enforcement officer shall take custody of persons who are subject to proceedings for involuntary emergency admission; involuntary admission, or temporary revocation of a conditional discharge under RSA 135-C in the following circumstances:
(a) Upon completion of an involuntary emergency admission certificate in accordance with RSA 135-C:28, I;
(b) Upon issuance by a justice of the peace of an order for a compulsory mental examination pursuant to RSA 135-C:28, II;
(c) Upon a finding of probable cause at an involuntary emergency admission hearing held pursuant to RSA 135-C:31;
(d) Upon issuance of an order for involuntary admission pursuant to RSA 135-C:45;
(e) Upon issuance of an order for an examination pursuant to RSA 135-C:51, II;
(f) Upon a determination by a psychiatrist at a county mental health program to revoke a conditional discharge temporarily pursuant to RSA 135-C:51, III; or
(g) As necessary to ensure the presence of the person at hearings or examinations conducted under this chapter, to effect a transfer between receiving facilities, or to carry out any other lawful order of a court.
II. A law enforcement officer shall also transport any persons taken into custody to the appropriate receiving facility, court, place of examination, or other location.
Source. 1986, 212:1. 2000, 231:3, eff. Jan. 1, 2001.
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