2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 52 - ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE COMMITMENT
SECTION 44-52-200. Authority of State Department of Mental Health.
The State Department of Mental Health may prescribe the form of applications, reports, records, and medical certificates provided for under this chapter, and the information required to be contained; require reports from the head of any treatment facility relating to the admission, examination, diagnosis, release, or discharge of any patient; visit each facility regularly; review the admission procedures of all new patients admitted between visits; provide care and treatment for involuntary admissions of chemically dependent persons; investigate by personal visit complaints made by any patient or by any person on behalf of a patient; and adopt regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter which it finds to be reasonably necessary for proper and efficient hospitalization and care of chemically dependent persons.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 487, Section 2.
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