2011 Code of Virginia
Title 37.2 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES.
Chapter 8 Emergency Custody and Voluntary and Involuntary Civil Admissions (37.2-800 thru 37.2-847)
37.2-805 Voluntary admission
37.2-805. Voluntary admission.
Any state facility shall admit any person requesting admission who has been (i) screened by the community services board or behavioral health authority that serves the city or county where the person resides or, if impractical, where the person is located, (ii) examined by a physician on the staff of the state facility, and (iii) deemed by the board or authority and the state facility physician to be in need of treatment, training, or habilitation in a state facility.
(Code 1950, 37-113; 1950, p. 915; 1964, c. 640; 1968, c. 477, 37.1-65; 1970, c. 46; 1972, cc. 639, 823; 1976, c. 671; 1980, c. 582; 1998, c. 446; 2005, c. 716.)
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