New York Mental Hygiene Law Article 9 - HOSPITALIZATION OF THE MENTALLY ILL
- 9.01 - Definitions.
9.01 Definitions. As used in this article: "in need of care and treatment" means that a person has a mental illness for which in-patient care...
- 9.03 - Admission to a Hospital.
9.03 Admission to a hospital. Unless otherwise specifically provided for by statute, a mentally ill person shall be admitted to a hospital as an in-patient...
- 9.05 - Examining Physicians and Medical Certificates.
9.05 Examining physicians and medical certificates. (a) A person is disqualified from acting as an examining physician in the following cases: 1. if he is...
- 9.07 - Notice to All Patients of Their Rights and of the Availability of the Mental Hygiene Legal Service.
9.07 Notice to all patients of their rights and of the availability of the mental hygiene legal service. (a) Immediately upon the admission of any...
- 9.09 - Notices to Mental Hygiene Legal Service Concerning Minors.
9.09 Notices to mental hygiene legal service concerning minors. When any person under the age of eighteen years is admitted to or is converted from...
- 9.11 - Patients' Records.
* 9.11 Patients' records. Except as to informal patients and patients admitted pursuant to section 9.39 or 9.40, the director of a hospital shall within...
- 9.13 - Voluntary Admissions.
9.13 Voluntary admissions. (a) The director of any hospital may receive as a voluntary patient any suitable person in need of care and treatment, who...
- 9.15 - Informal Admissions.
9.15 Informal admissions. The director of any hospital approved by the commissioner for such purpose may receive therein as an informal patient any suitable person...
- 9.17 - Voluntary and Informal Admissions; Suitability.
9.17 Voluntary and informal admissions; suitability. (a) In order for a person to be suitable for admission to a hospital as a voluntary or informal...
- 9.19 - Voluntary and Informal Admissions; Notices.
9.19 Voluntary and informal admissions; notices. The director shall cause all patients admitted as voluntary or informal patients to be informed once during each one...
- 9.21 - Voluntary and Informal Admissions; Encouragement Of.
9.21 Voluntary and informal admissions; encouragement of. (a) It shall be the duty of all state and local officers having duties to perform relating to...
- 9.23 - Voluntary and Informal Admissions; Conversion To.
9.23 Voluntary and informal admissions; conversion to. (a) Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to prohibit any director from converting, and it shall...
- 9.25 - Voluntary and Informal Admissions; Review of Status.
9.25 Voluntary and informal admissions; review of status. (a) No voluntary or informal patient, whether admitted on such status or converted thereto, shall be continued...
- 9.27 - Involuntary Admission on Medical Certification.
9.27 Involuntary admission on medical certification. (a) The director of a hospital may receive and retain therein as a patient any person alleged to be...
- 9.29 - Involuntary Admission on Medical Certification; Notice of Admission to Patients and Others.
9.29 Involuntary admission on medical certification; notice of admission to patients and others. (a) The director shall cause written notice of a person's involuntary admission...
- 9.31 - Involuntary Admission on Medical Certification; Patient's Right to a Hearing.
9.31 Involuntary admission on medical certification; patient's right to a hearing. (a) If, at any time prior to the expiration of sixty days from the...
- 9.33 - Court Authorization to Retain an Involuntary Patient.
9.33 Court authorization to retain an involuntary patient. (a) If the director shall determine that a patient admitted upon an application supported by medical certification,...
- 9.35 - Review of Court Authorization to Retain an Involuntary Patient.
9.35 Review of court authorization to retain an involuntary patient. If a person who has been denied release or whose retention, continued retention, or transfer...
- 9.37 - Involuntary Admission on Certificate of a Director of Community Services or His Designee.
9.37 Involuntary admission on certificate of a director of community services or his designee. * (a) The director of a hospital, upon application by a...
- 9.39 - Emergency Admissions for Immediate Observation, Care, and Treatment.
9.39 Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care, and treatment. (a) The director of any hospital maintaining adequate staff and facilities for the observation, examination, care,...
- 9.40 - Emergency Observation, Care and Treatment in Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Programs.
* 9.40 Emergency observation, care and treatment in comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs. (a) The director of any comprehensive psychiatric emergency program may receive and retain...
- 9.41 - Emergency Admissions for Immediate Observation, Care, and Treatment; Powers of Certain Peace Officers and Police Officers.
* 9.41 Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care, and treatment; powers of certain peace officers and police officers. Any peace officer, when acting pursuant to...
- 9.43 - Emergency Admissions for Immediate Observation, Care, and Treatment; Powers of Courts.
* 9.43 Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care, and treatment; powers of courts. (a) Whenever any court of inferior or general jurisdiction is informed by...
- 9.45 - Emergency Admissions for Immediate Observation, Care, and Treatment; Powers of Directors of Community Services.
* 9.45 Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care, and treatment; powers of directors of community services. The director of community services or the director's designee...
- 9.46 - Reports of Substantial Risk or Threat of Harm by Mental Health Professionals.
9.46 Reports of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals. (a) For purposes of this section, the term "mental health professional" shall...
- 9.47 - Duties of Local Officers in Regard to Their Mentally Ill.
9.47 Duties of local officers in regard to their mentally ill. * (a) All directors of community services, health officers, and social services officials, as...
- 9.48 - Duties of Directors of Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs.
* 9.48 Duties of directors of assisted outpatient treatment programs. (a)(1) Directors of assisted outpatient treatment programs established pursuant to section 9.60 of this article...
- 9.49 - Transfer of Juvenile Delinquents.
9.49 Transfer of juvenile delinquents. (a) The commissioner shall receive and arrange the admission to the appropriate office facility of juvenile delinquents temporarily transferred to...
- 9.51 - Residential Treatment Facilities for Children and Youth; Admissions.
9.51 Residential treatment facilities for children and youth; admissions. (a) The director of a residential treatment facility for children and youth may receive as a...
- 9.53 - Children in the Custody of Social Services Officials or the Division for Youth.
9.53 Children in the custody of social services officials or the division for youth. (a) Admission of a child in the care and custody of...
- 9.55 - Emergency Admissions for Immediate Observation, Care and Treatment; Powers of Qualified Psychiatrists.
* 9.55 Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care and treatment; powers of qualified psychiatrists. A qualified psychiatrist shall have the power to direct the removal...
- 9.57 - Emergency Admissions for Immediate Observation, Care and Treatment; Powers of Emergency Room Physicians.
* 9.57 Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care and treatment; powers of emergency room physicians. A physician who has examined a person in an emergency...
- 9.58 - Transport for Evaluation; Powers of Approved Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams.
9.58 Transport for evaluation; powers of approved mobile crisis outreach teams. (a) A physician or qualified mental health professional who is a member of an...
- 9.59 - Immunity From Liability.
* 9.59 Immunity from liability. (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any general, special or local law, an ambulance service as defined by subdivision two...
- 9.60 - Assisted Outpatient Treatment.
* 9.60 Assisted outpatient treatment. (a) Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "assisted outpatient treatment" shall mean categories of...
- 9.63 - Transportation of Persons to or Between Hospitals.
* 9.63 Transportation of persons to or between hospitals. In carrying out the transportation of any person to or between a hospital, including a comprehensive...
Last modified: February 3, 2019