2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 43A. Mental Health
§43A-5-102. Official forms required - Order as sufficient authority and protection.
No person shall be accepted into any facility without the use of the properly executed official forms. The properly executed order to hospitalize or the order of admission shall be full and sufficient authority and protection to the executive director or the person acting as such in the absence of the executive director for receiving and detaining in the hospital the person named on the form.
Added by Laws 1953, p. 167, § 63, emerg. eff. June 3, 1953. Renumbered from § 63 of this title by Laws 1986, c. 103, § 103, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Amended by Laws 2005, c. 150, § 35, emerg. eff. May 9, 2005.
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