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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
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Department may admit for the purposes of care or
treatment, or both, any person under the age of 18 years
who has any mental disorder which is susceptible of care
or treatment and whose admission to such facility has
been requested by at least one parent or his legal
guardian. The person requesting such admission must, as
a prerequisite to the admission, be able to understand
the nature of the request. The admission request must
be formal, written and assented to by an admitting
physician at the facility. No person admitted pursuant
to this subsection may be retained for more than three
days, after the person who requested his admission
requests his release, unless his admission status is
changed pursuant to § 12 of this subtitle. No person
admitted pursuant to this subsection may be retained by a
facility for any period in excess of one year unless his
admission status has been changed after initial admission
or unless at the expiration of each one year period of
inpatient residence a new request is executed by a parent
or the legal guardian of the patient.] AT THOSE
FACILITIES ESTABLISHED UNDER ARTICLE 59 §31(A), THE
ADMISSION OF ANY PERSON UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE SHALL BE
TREATED AS AN INVOLUNTARY ADMISSION AND SHALL BE SUBJECT
TO THE PROVISIONS OF §12 OF THIS ARTICLE, EXCEPT THAT A
MINOR WHO HAS ATTAINED THE AGE OF 16 YEARS MAY CONSENT TO
ADMISSION FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIAGNOSIS AND CONSULTATION
PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 43, SECTION 135A.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That new
Section 11(g) be and it is hereby added to Article 59 -
Mental Hygiene, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972
Replacement Volume and 1976 Supplement) to read as
follows:
Article 59 - Mental Hygiene
11.
(G) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE ADMISSION OF
ALL PERSONS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE SHALL BE TREATED AS AN
INVOLUNTARY ADMISSION AND SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF § 12 OF THIS ARTICLE, EXCEPT THAT MINORS
WHO HAVE ATTAINED THE AGE OF 16 YEARS MAY CONSENT TO
ADMISSION FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIAGNOSIS AND CONSULTATION
PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 43, SECTION 135A.
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SECTION 3 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this
Act shall take effect July 1, 1977.
Approved May 26, 1977.
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CHAPTER 963
(House Bill 1379)
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