HARRY HUGHES, Governor

2329

(Senate Bill 896)

AN ACT concerning

Mental Health - Emergency Evaluations

FOR the purpose of providing for the emergency evaluation of
certain persons in certain designated emergency
facilities by petition or court order; providing for
the judicial review of certain petitions for emergency
evaluation; providing for the examination, release, and
placement of certain persons; providing for the
transportation to and from designated emergency
facilities; and relating generally to emergency
evaluations.

BY repealing

Article 59 - Mental Hygiene

Section 22

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 59 - Mental Hygiene

Section 22 and 22A, to be under the amended subtitle

"Emergency Evaluations"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1979 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 59 - Mental Hygiene

Emergency [Admissions] EVALUATIONS

[22.

(a) As used in this subtitle, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated unless a contrary meaning
is clearly intended from the context in which the term
appears.

(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 emergency admittee under the provisions of this subtitle.

(3) "Emergency facility" shall mean any facility
designated in writing by the Department of Health and Mental