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N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.43 Emergency assessment for immediate observation, care, and treatment; powers of courts
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* § 9.43 Emergency assessment for immediate observation, care, and treatment; powers of courts. (a) Whenever any court of inferior or general jurisdiction is informed by verified statement that a person is apparently mentally ill and is conducting himself or herself in a manner w…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.45 Emergency assessment for immediate observation, care, and treatment; powers of directors of community services
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* § 9.45 Emergency assessment for immediate observation, care, and treatment; powers of directors of community services. (a) The director of community services or the director's designee shall have the power to direct the removal of any person, within their jurisdiction, to a hos…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.46 Reports of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals
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§ 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 include a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, registered nurse, licensed clinical social worker, licensed master s…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.47 Duties of local officers in regard to their persons with a mental illness
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§ 9.47 Duties of local officers in regard to their persons with a mental illness. * (a) All directors of community services, health officers, and social services officials, as defined by the social services law, are charged with the duty of seeing that all persons with a mental i…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.48 Duties of directors of assisted outpatient treatment programs
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* § 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 shall provide a written report to the program coordinators, appointed by the commissioner of men…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.49 Transfer of juvenile delinquents
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§ 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 his custody pursuant to section 353.4 of the family court act. (b) Immediately upon the admi…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.51 Residential treatment facilities for children and youth; admissions
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§ 9.51 Residential treatment facilities for children and youth; admissions. (a) The director of a residential treatment facility for children and youth, as defined by section 1.03 of this chapter, may receive as a patient a person under the age of twenty-one in need of care and t…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.53 Children in the custody of social services officials or the division for youth
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§ 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 a social services official or authorized agency, the director of the division for youth or a person or entity granted such custody pursuant t…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.55 Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care and treatment; powers of qualified psychiatrists
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* § 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 of any person, whose treatment for a mental illness he or she is either supervising or providing in …
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.57 Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care and treatment; powers of emergency room physicians
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* § 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 room or provided emergency medical services at a general hospital, as defined in article twenty-eight of the pub…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.58 Transport for evaluation; powers of approved mobile crisis outreach teams
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§ 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 approved mobile crisis outreach team shall have the power to remove, or pursuant to subdivision (b) of this section, to …
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.59 Immunity from liability
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* § 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 of section three thousand one of the public health law and any member thereof who is an emergency medical tech…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.60 Assisted outpatient treatment
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* § 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 outpatient services which have been ordered by the court pursuant to this section. Such treat…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.63 Transportation of persons to or between hospitals
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* § 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 psychiatric emergency program, pursuant to the provisions of this article appropriate attempts shall be made to elicit …
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 9.64 Notice of admission determination to community provider
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§ 9.64 Notice of admission determination to community provider. Upon an admission to a hospital or received as a patient in a comprehensive psychiatric emergency program, the director of such hospital or program shall, in accordance with section 33.13 of this chapter, ensure that…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 91.01 Laws repealed
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§ 91.01 Laws repealed. Chapter four hundred twenty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act relating to the mentally ill, mental defectives and epileptics, constituting chapter twenty-seven of the consolidated laws", and all acts amendatory thereof and supplemen…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 91.02 Application of certain amendments, repeals or additions to former mental hygiene law
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§ 91.02 Application of certain amendments, repeals or additions to former mental hygiene law. (a) An act of the legislature of the year in which this act shall have become a law which, in form, amends or repeals or purports to amend or repeal any provision or provisions of the fo…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 91.03 Savings clause
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§ 91.03 Savings clause. Nothing contained in this chapter or any act amendatory thereof shall affect or impair the validity of any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or any order, judgment, or status established prior to the enactment of this chapter or prior to the…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 91.04 Separability clause
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§ 91.04 Separability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this chapter shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its oper…
N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 91.05 Time of taking effect
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§ 91.05 Time of taking effect. This act shall take effect on the first day of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.