§334-76 [OLD] REPEALED. L 1976, c 130, §9.
§334-76 Discharge from custody. (a) Subject to any special requirements of law as provided in sections 704-406, 704-411, and 706-607 or elsewhere, with respect to patients committed on court order from a criminal proceeding, the administrator of a psychiatric facility, the administrator's deputy, or the attending physician, pursuant to section 334-60.7, shall:
(b) The administrator, the administrator's deputy, or the physician assuming medical responsibility for the patient shall discharge an involuntary patient when the patient is no longer a proper subject for commitment, as determined by the criteria for involuntary hospitalization in section 334-60.2.
(c) Nothing in this section shall preclude a psychiatric facility from accepting for voluntary inpatient treatment, in accordance with the procedures in section 334-60.1, a patient for whom the facility contemplates discharge pursuant to section 334-60.7 and who voluntarily agrees to further hospitalization after the period of commitment has expired or where the patient is no longer a proper subject for commitment. [L 1977, c 76, §6; am L 1985, c 68, §10 and c 220, §2; am L 1988, c 44, §3; am L 2014, c 156, §2; am L 2025, c 219, §11]