§334-76  [OLD]  REPEALED.  L 1976, c
130, §9.



 



§334-76  Discharge from custody. 
Subject to any special requirements of law as provided in sections 704-406,
704-411, and 706-607 or elsewhere, with respect to patients committed on court
order, the administrator of a psychiatric facility, pursuant to section
334-60.7, shall send a notice of intent to discharge or notice of the patient’s
admission to voluntary inpatient treatment to those persons specified in the
order of commitment as entitled to receive notice of intent to discharge and
the administrator or the deputy or the physician assuming medical
responsibility for the patient shall discharge an involuntary patient when the
patient is no longer a proper subject for commitment, as determined by the criteria
for involuntary hospitalization in section 334-60.2.



Nothing in this section shall preclude a
facility from accepting for voluntary inpatient treatment, in accordance with
the procedures in section 334-60.1, a patient for whom the facility contemplates
discharge pursuant to section 334-60.7 and who voluntarily agrees to further
hospitalization after the period of commitment has expired or where the patient
is no longer a proper subject for commitment. [L 1977, c 76, §6; am L 1985, c
68, §10 and c 220, §2; am L 1988, c 44, §3]