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§ 5-302. Informal consumers--Admission

Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 43A. Mental HealthEffective: November 1, 2022

Oklahoma Statutes Annotated
Title 43a. Mental Health (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 1. Mental Health Law of 1986 (Refs & Annos)
Mental Hospital Voluntary Admission Procedures Act
Effective: November 1, 2022
43A Okl.St.Ann. § 5-302
§ 5-302. Informal consumers--Admission
Currentness
A. Any person may be admitted to a state mental hospital or state-operated community mental health center or a private mental health hospital or private community mental health center on a voluntary basis as an informal consumer when there are available accommodations and in the judgment of the person in charge of the facility or a designee such person may require treatment therein. Such person may be admitted as an informal consumer without making formal or written application therefor and any such informal consumer shall be free to leave such facility on any day between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. and at such other times as the person in charge of the facility may determine.
B. No person shall be admitted as an informal consumer pursuant to the provisions of this section to any state mental hospital or state-operated community mental health center unless the person in charge of the facility or a designee has informed such consumer in writing of the following:
1. The rules and procedures of the facility relating to the discharge of informal consumers;
2. The legal rights of an informal consumer receiving treatment from the facility; and
3. The types of treatment which are available to the informal consumer at the facility.

Credits

Laws 1985, c. 116, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1985. Renumbered from Title 43A, § 560 by Laws 1986, c. 103, § 103, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Laws 2005, c. 150, § 39, emerg. eff. May 9, 2005; Laws 2022, c. 297, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.
43A Okl. St. Ann. § 5-302, OK ST T. 43A § 5-302
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 257 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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