{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-43a-43a-5-309","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 43A, § 43A-5-309","heading":"Detention against will prohibited - Notice of desire to","body":"be discharged.\n\nNo consumer admitted to a state or private mental hospital under\n\nthe provisions of the Mental Hospital Voluntary Admission Procedures\n\nAct shall be detained in a mental hospital against the will of the\n\nperson more than one hundred twenty (120) hours or five (5) days,\n\nexcluding weekends and holidays, after the consumer gives notice in\n\nwriting to the executive director of the facility of the desire of\n\nthe consumer to be discharged from the facility. If during the\n\nemergency detention the consumer becomes medically unstable, the\n\ntime limit on the emergency detention period stipulated in this\n\nsection shall be tolled until the consumer is treated at a medical\n\nfacility and is medically stabilized. The executive director of the\n\nfacility may designate one or more employees of the facility to\n\nreceive a notification provided by this section with the same effect\n\nas if delivered to the executive director personally.","path":["OK Code","Title 43A"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os43A.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"3b4780f4bfe2483106e66c2b2bc4e70d2b78120cbe03a22056d49ac48eb9917b","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-43a-43a-5-308","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-43a-43a-5-310"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}