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(1)    "Emergency admissions" shall mean that process by which
an emergency admittee is admitted on an emergency basis to an
emergency facility as defined herein.

(2)    "Emergency treatment" means the treatment of an emer-
gency admittee under the provisions of this subtitle.

(3)    "Emergency facility" shall mean any facility designated in
writing by the Department of Mental Hygiene as an emergency
facility.

(4)    "Mental disorder" means the behavioral and other symptoms
which to a lay petitioner initiating the emergency admission process
indicate a clear disturbance in the mental functioning of another
person, and to a physician conducting an examination indicate one or
more of the mental disorders described in the "Diagnostic and Sta-
tistical Manual—Mental Disorders" published periodically by the
American Psychiatric Association. The term shall not include mental
retardation.

(5)    "Peace officer" means a sheriff, State police officer, municipal
or other local police officer.

31.

(a) The following existing facilities shall be maintained as pub-
lic facilities under the general jurisdiction of the Commissioner:

Spring Grove State Hospital
Springfield State Hospital
Eastern Shore State Hospital
Crownsville State Hospital
[Henryton State Hospital]
[Rosewood State Hospital]

[Maryland Metropolitan Washington
Mental Retardation Center]

Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital

54.

The mental health information and review service in each judicial
district of the State shall perform the following duties subject to
directions made and rules and regulations promulgated by the Court
of Appeals in agreement with the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene:

(a)    Study and review the admission and retention of involun-
tary patients who are admitted pursuant to Article 59 of this Code,
[and] submit in writing within fourteen (14) days of admission to
the court an initial admission review recommendation along with
whatever supporting data the court may require and submit interim
review recommendations along with said data, when requested to do
so by the court, but, in any event, at least annually;

(b)    Inform involuntary patients and in proper cases others inter-
ested in the patient's welfare concerning procedures for admission
and retention and of the patient's rights to have judicial hearing