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Okla. Stat. tit. 43A, § 43A-5-302: Informal consumers - Admission

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  2. Title 43A

A. Any person may be admitted to a state mental hospital or

state-operated community mental health center or a private mental

health hospital or private community mental health center on a

voluntary basis as an informal consumer when there are available

accommodations and in the judgment of the person in charge of the

facility or a designee such person may require treatment therein.

Such person may be admitted as an informal consumer without making

formal or written application therefor and any such informal

consumer shall be free to leave such facility on any day between the

hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. and at such other times as the

person in charge of the facility may determine.

B. No person shall be admitted as an informal consumer pursuant

to the provisions of this section to any state mental hospital or

state-operated community mental health center unless the person in

charge of the facility or a designee has informed such consumer in

writing of the following:

1. The rules and procedures of the facility relating to the

discharge of informal consumers;

2. The legal rights of an informal consumer receiving treatment

from the facility; and

3. The types of treatment which are available to the informal

consumer at the facility.

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