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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="10-616" title_number="10" title_name="Mental Health Law" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Admission Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A certificate for involuntary admission of an individual under this part shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Be based on the personal examination of the physician, psychologist, psychiatric nurse practitioner, licensed certified social worker–clinical, or licensed clinical professional counselor who signs the certificate; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Be in the form that the Secretary adopts, by rule or regulation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The rules and regulations shall require the form to include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A diagnosis of a mental disorder of the individual;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>An opinion that the individual needs inpatient care or treatment; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>An opinion that admission to a facility or Veterans’ Administration hospital is needed for the protection of the individual or another.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A certificate may not be used for admission if the examination on which the certificate is made was done:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>More than 1 week before the certificate is signed; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>More than 30 days before the facility or the Veterans’ Administration hospital receives the application for admission.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A certificate may not be used for an admission if the physician, psychologist, psychiatric nurse practitioner, licensed certified social worker–clinical, or licensed clinical professional counselor who signed the certificate:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Has a financial interest, through ownership or compensation, in a proprietary facility and admission to that proprietary facility is sought for the individual whose status is being certified; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is related, by blood or marriage, to the individual or to the applicant.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
