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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 575.001: AUTHORIZATION FOR ADMISSION.
Where this section sits in the code
- HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
- TITLE 7. MENTAL HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
- SUBTITLE C. TEXAS MENTAL HEALTH CODE
- CHAPTER 575. ADMISSION AND TRANSFER PROCEDURES FOR INPATIENT SERVICES
- SUBCHAPTER A. ADMISSION PROCEDURES
(a) The facility administrator of an inpatient mental health facility may admit and detain a patient under the procedures prescribed by this subtitle.
(b) The facility administrator of an inpatient mental health facility operated by a community center or other entity the department designates to provide mental health services may not admit or detain a patient under an order for temporary or extended court-ordered mental health services unless the facility is licensed under Chapter 577.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
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