Return to hospital of an escaped mentally ill person

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Fiduciary Relations and Persons with Mental Illness. [Enacted title]
4. Hospitalization of Persons with Mental Illness
5. Miscellaneous Provisions
6. Return to hospital of an escaped mentally ill person

When a person has been ordered confined in a hospital or institution for the mentally ill pursuant to this chapter and has left such hospital or institution without authorization or has failed to return as directed, the court which ordered confinement shall, upon the request of the administrator of such hospital or institution, order the return of such person to such hospital or institution.

(July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 568, Pub. L. 91-358, title I, § 150(c)(7)(A).)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 21-592.

1973 Ed., § 21-592.

Cross References

Fugitives from welfare institutions, reward for apprehension, see § 24-201.27.

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