All applications and certificates for the hospitalization of a person in the District of Columbia under this chapter shall be made on forms approved by the Commission on Mental Health and furnished by it.
(Sept. 14, 1965, 79 Stat. 760, Pub. L. 89-183, § 1.)
1981 Ed., § 21-588.
1973 Ed., § 21-588.
This section is referenced in § 21-589.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 21 - Fiduciary Relations and Persons with Mental Illness. [Enacted title]
Chapter 5 - Hospitalization of Persons with Mental Illness
Subchapter VI - Miscellaneous Provisions
§ 21–581. Proceedings instituted by Mayor of the District of Columbia
§ 21–582. Petitions, applications, or certificates of physicians or qualified psychologists
§ 21–583. Physicians, psychiatrists and qualified psychologists as witnesses
§ 21–585. Confinement in jail prohibited
§ 21–586. Financial responsibility for care of hospitalized persons; judicial enforcement
§ 21–587. Veterans’ Administration and military hospital facilities
§ 21–589. Persons hospitalized prior to September 15, 1964
§ 21–589.01. Interim provisions for term of commitment
§ 21–590. Discharge as cured; restoration to legal status. [Repealed]
§ 21–591. Offenses and penalties
§ 21–592. Return to hospital of an escaped mentally ill person