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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="10-620" title_number="10" title_name="Mental Health Law" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Admission Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In Part IV of this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Court” means a district or circuit court of this State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Emergency evaluee” means an individual for whom an emergency evaluation is sought or made under Part IV of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Emergency facility” means a facility that the Department designates, in writing, as an emergency facility.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Emergency facility” includes a licensed general hospital that has an emergency room, unless the Department, after consultation with the health officer, exempts the hospital.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Emergency facility personnel” means a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or other advanced practice professional employed or under contract with the emergency facility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Mental disorder” means the behavioral or other symptoms that indicate:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>To a lay petitioner who is submitting an emergency petition, a clear disturbance in the mental functioning of another individual; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>To the following health professionals doing an examination, at least one mental disorder that is described in the version of the American Psychiatric Association’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual – Mental Disorders” that is current at the time of the examination:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Physician;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Psychologist;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>Clinical social worker;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>Licensed clinical professional counselor;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>Clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric and mental health nursing (APRN/PMH);</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>Psychiatric nurse practitioner (CRNP–PMH);</text>
        </level>
        <level label="7">
          <text>Physician assistant; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="8">
          <text>Licensed clinical marriage and family therapist.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Mental disorder” does not include intellectual disability.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Peace officer” means a sheriff, a deputy sheriff, a State police officer, a county police officer, a municipal or other local police officer, or a Secret Service agent who is a sworn special agent of the United States Secret Service or Department of Homeland Security authorized to exercise powers delegated under 18 U.S.C. § 3056.</text>
  </level>
</section>
