{"data":{"id":"us-sd/sdcl-27a-8-11.2","jurisdiction":"us-sd","citation":"SDCL § 27A-8-11.2","heading":"Commitment of voluntary patient who has not applied for release--Reasons.","body":"An inpatient psychiatric facility director, the center administrator or an attending psychiatrist may file a petition pursuant to § 27A-10-1 for the commitment of a voluntary patient if clinically indicated, even though a written notice of intention to terminate inpatient treatment has not been received. Reasons for the filing of such petition shall be limited to the following:\n(1) The facility director, the center administrator, or attending psychiatrist has probable cause to believe that the patient meets the criteria in § 27A-1-2; and\n(2) The patient, including a person admitted upon exercise of a substituted informed consent by a guardian or a next of kin pursuant to § 27A-8-1, is unwilling or unable to consent to treatment deemed necessary by the treating physician and there are no other appropriate treatments to which the patient is willing or able to consent; or\n(3) The patient is unable or unwilling to affirm consent to continued admission as required in § 27A-8-17.\nSource: SL 1987, ch 198, § 12; SL 1991, ch 220, § 60; SL 1992, ch 190, § 4C.","path":["TITLE 27A. MENTALLY ILL PERSONS","CHAPTER 27A-8. VOLUNTARY HOSPITALIZATION OF PATIENTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS"],"source_url":"https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/27A-8-11.2","current_through":"2026-08-31","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:18:57Z","sha256":"242a5a874c3fa215e7e2cd793065da68cc1c9a6df14ae34a05bc4f3bcc76b8c2","source_id":"us-sd","stale":true,"prev":"us-sd/sdcl-27a-8-11","next":"us-sd/sdcl-27a-8-12"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}