10 GCA § 82801: Authority to Receive Voluntary Patients.

Any member of the qualified mental health professional staff of a designated facility may admit for observation, diagnosis, care and treatment, any person who is mentally ill or has symptoms of a mental illness and who, being eighteen (18) years of age or over, applies therefor; or any individual under eighteen (18) years of age who is mentally ill or has symptoms of mental illness, if his parents or legal guardians apply therefor in his behalf.