Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 71 Mental Illness - Section 71.05.190 Persons not admitted -- Transportation -- Detention of arrested person pending return to custody

§ 71.05.190. Persons not admitted -- Transportation -- Detention of arrested person pending return to custody

If the person is not approved for admission by a facility providing seventy-two hour evaluation and treatment, and the individual has not been arrested, the facility shall furnish transportation, if not otherwise available, for the person to his or her place of residence or other appropriate place. If the individual has been arrested, the evaluation and treatment facility shall detain the individual for not more than eight hours at the request of the peace officer in order to enable a peace officer to return to the facility and take the individual back into custody.

[1997 c 112 § 13; 1979 ex.s. c 215 § 12; 1974 ex.s. c 145 § 12; 1973 1st ex.s. c 142 § 24.]

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