Section 10-703 – Visitors
(a) Each individual in a facility shall be entitled to converse privately with and receive visits: (1) At all reasonable hours, from a lawyer that the individual chooses; (2) At all reasonable hours, from a clergyman that the individual chooses; and (3) During reasonable visiting hours that the facility sets, from any other visitor if the individual wishes to […]
Section 10-704 – Civil Rights Generally
An individual may not be deprived of the right to vote or to receive, hold, and dispose of property solely because the individual is in a facility or a Veterans’ Administration hospital for a mental disorder.
Section 10-622 – Petition for Emergency Evaluation
(a) A petition for emergency evaluation of an individual may be made under this section only if the petitioner has reason to believe that the individual: (1) Has a mental disorder; and (2) Presents a danger to the life or safety of the individual or of others. (b) (1) The petition for emergency evaluation of an individual may be made […]
Section 10-623 – Action on Petition of Lay Petitioner
(a) If the petitioner under Part IV of this subtitle is not a physician, psychologist, clinical social worker, licensed clinical professional counselor, clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric and mental health nursing, psychiatric nurse practitioner, licensed clinical marriage and family therapist, health officer or designee of a health officer, or peace officer, the petitioner shall present the […]
Section 10-624 – Emergency Facility
(a) (1) A peace officer shall take an emergency evaluee to the nearest emergency facility if the peace officer has a petition under Part IV of this subtitle that: (i) Has been endorsed by a court within the last 5 days; or (ii) Is signed and submitted by a physician, psychologist, clinical social worker, licensed clinical professional counselor, clinical […]
Section 10-625 – Emergency Involuntary Admission
(a) If an emergency evaluee meets the requirements for an involuntary admission and is unable or unwilling to agree to a voluntary admission under this subtitle, the examining physician shall take the steps needed for involuntary admission of the emergency evaluee to an appropriate facility, which may be a general hospital with a licensed inpatient psychiatric […]
Section 10-626 – Emergency Evaluation of Arrested Individuals
(a) A court may order, at any time, an emergency evaluation under Part IV of this subtitle of an individual who has been arrested, if the court finds probable cause to believe that the individual has a mental disorder and the individual presents a danger to the life or safety of the individual or of others. […]
Section 10-610 – Application by Parent or Guardian
(a) On behalf of a minor, a parent or guardian of the person of the minor may apply, under this section, for admission of the minor to: (1) Any facility that is not a State facility; or (2) The following State facilities: (i) A regional institute for children and adolescents; and (ii) The child or adolescent unit of a State […]
Section 10-627 – Notice of Admission of Individual 65 or Older
On the first work day after admission of an emergency evaluee who is 65 years old or older, the geriatric evaluation team in the county where the emergency evaluee resides shall be informed.
Section 10-611 – Voluntary Admission of Disabled Person
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated. (2) “Disabled person” has the meaning stated in § 13–101 of the Estates and Trusts Article. (3) “Guardian of the person” means a guardian of the person of a disabled person appointed under Title 13, Subtitle 7, Part II of the Estates and Trusts Article. (4) “Mental disorder” […]