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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
Chapter 17 - CARE AND COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL PERSONS
Section 44-17-600 - No admission shall be based on order more than thirty days after it has been rendered.


SC Code § 44-17-600 (2012) What's This?

Any individual with respect to whom such order of hospitalization has been issued shall not be admitted to any public or private mental health facility or hospital on the basis thereof at any time after the expiration of thirty days following the date of the judicial order, unless the judge of probate issuing such order extends this date.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-968; 1954 (48) 1732; 1974 (58) 2642.

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