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2025 Code of Virginia
Title 37.2 - Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
Chapter 8 - Emergency Custody and Voluntary and Involuntary Civil Admissions
Article 1. General Provisions
- § 37.2-800. (Expires July 1, 2026) Applicability of chapter
- § 37.2-800. (Effective July 1, 2026). Applicability of chapter
- § 37.2-801. Admission procedures; forms
- § 37.2-802. Interpreters in admission or certification proceedings
- § 37.2-803. Special justices to perform duties of judge
- § 37.2-804. Fees and expenses
- § 37.2-804.1. Use of electronic communication
- § 37.2-804.2. (Expires July 1, 2026) Disclosure of records
- § 37.2-804.2. (Effective July 1, 2026) Disclosure of records
Article 2. Voluntary Admission
- § 37.2-805. (Expires July 1, 2026) Voluntary admission
- § 37.2-805. (Effective July 1, 2026) Voluntary admission
- § 37.2-805.1. Admission of incapacitated persons pursuant to advance directives or by guardians
Article 3. Admission to Training Centers
- § 37.2-806. Judicial certification of eligibility for admission of persons with intellectual disability
- § 37.2-807. Emergency or respite care admissions to training centers
Article 4. Emergency Custody and Involuntary Temporary Detention
- § 37.2-808. (Effective July 1, 2026) Emergency custody; issuance and execution of order
- § 37.2-808. (Expires July 1, 2026) Emergency custody; issuance and execution of order
- § 37.2-809. (Expires July 1, 2026) Involuntary temporary detention; issuance and execution of order
- § 37.2-809. (Effective July 1, 2026) Involuntary temporary detention; issuance and execution of order
- § 37.2-809.1. (Expires July 1, 2026) Facility of temporary detention
- § 37.2-809.1. (Effective July 1, 2026) Facility of temporary detention
- § 37.2-810. (Expires July 1, 2026) Transportation of person in the temporary detention process
- § 37.2-810. (Effective July 1, 2026) Transportation of person in the temporary detention process
- § 37.2-811. Emergency treatment of inmates in the custody of local correctional facilities
- § 37.2-812. Repealed
- § 37.2-813. (Expires July 1, 2026) Release of person prior to commitment hearing for involuntary admission
- § 37.2-813. (Effective July 1, 2026) Release of person prior to commitment hearing for involuntary admission
Article 5. Involuntary Admissions
- § 37.2-814. (Expires July 1, 2026) Commitment hearing for involuntary admission; written explanation; right to counsel; rights of petitioner
- § 37.2-814. (Effective July 1, 2026) Commitment hearing for involuntary admission; written explanation; right to counsel; rights of petitioner
- § 37.2-815. Commitment hearing for involuntary admission; examination required
- § 37.2-816. (Expires July 1, 2026) Commitment hearing for involuntary admission; preadmission screening report
- § 37.2-816. (Effective July 1, 2026) Commitment hearing for involuntary admission; preadmission screening report
- § 37.2-817. (Expires July 1, 2026) Involuntary admission
- § 37.2-817. (Effective July 1, 2026) Involuntary admission
- § 37.2-817.01. Mandatory outpatient treatment
- § 37.2-817.1. Monitoring and court review of mandatory outpatient treatment
- § 37.2-817.2. Repealed
- § 37.2-817.3. Repealed
- § 37.2-817.4. Continuation of mandatory outpatient treatment order
- § 37.2-818. Commitment hearing for involuntary admission; recordings and records
- § 37.2-819. Order of involuntary admission or mandatory outpatient treatment forwarded to CCRE; certain voluntary admissions forwarded to CCRE; firearm background check
- § 37.2-820. Place of hearing
- § 37.2-821. Appeal of involuntary admission or certification order
- § 37.2-822. Treatment of person admitted while appeal is pending
- § 37.2-823. Examination of admission papers by director; examination of persons admitted
- § 37.2-824. Periodic review of all persons for purposes of retention
- § 37.2-825. Admission raises no presumption of legal incapacity
- § 37.2-826. Disposition of nonresidents
- § 37.2-827. Repealed
- § 37.2-828. Receiving and maintaining federal prisoners in state facilities
Article 6. Transportation of Admitted Persons; Detention by Sheriff; Escape; Transfers
- § 37.2-829. Transportation of person in civil admission process
- § 37.2-830. Repealed
- § 37.2-831. Detention in jail after order of admission
- § 37.2-832. Persons with mental illness not to be confined in cells with criminals
- § 37.2-833. Escape, sickness, death, or discharge of a person ordered to be involuntarily admitted while in custody; warrant for person escaping
- § 37.2-834. Arrest of certain persons involuntarily admitted
- § 37.2-835. Arrest without warrant
- § 37.2-836. Employees to accompany persons admitted voluntarily to facilities
Article 7. Discharge and Transfers
- § 37.2-837. Discharge from state hospitals or training centers, conditional release, and trial or home visits for individuals
- § 37.2-838. Discharge of individuals from a licensed hospital
- § 37.2-839. Exchange of information between community services boards or behavioral health authorities and state facilities
- § 37.2-840. Transfer of individuals receiving services
- § 37.2-841. Admission of veteran to, or transfer to or from, a Veterans Affairs hospital, center, or other facility or installation
- § 37.2-842. Veterans admitted or transferred to Veterans Affairs hospital, center, or other facility or installation subject to rules; power and authority of medical officer in charge
- § 37.2-843. Providing drugs or medicines for certain individuals discharged from state facilities
Article 8. Testing Legality of Detention
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