Title MHY, Mental Hygiene

* § 9.43 Emergency assessment for immediate observation, care, and\n treatment; powers of courts.\n (a) Whenever any court of inferior or general jurisdiction is informed\nby verified statement that a person is apparently mentally ill and is\nconducting himself or herself in a ma…

* § 9.45 Emergency assessment for immediate observation, care, and\n treatment; powers of directors of community services.\n (a) The director of community services or the director's designee\nshall have the power to direct the removal of any person, within their\njurisdiction, to…

§ 9.46 Reports of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health\n professionals.\n (a) For purposes of this section, the term "mental health\nprofessional" shall include a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist,\nregistered nurse, licensed clinical social worker, licensed ma…

§ 9.47 Duties of local officers in regard to their persons with a mental\n illness.\n * (a) All directors of community services, health officers, and social\nservices officials, as defined by the social services law, are charged\nwith the duty of seeing that all persons with a me…

* § 9.48 Duties of directors of assisted outpatient treatment programs.\n (a)(1) Directors of assisted outpatient treatment programs established\npursuant to section 9.60 of this article shall provide a written report\nto the program coordinators, appointed by the commissioner of…

§ 9.49 Transfer of juvenile delinquents.\n (a) The commissioner shall receive and arrange the admission to the\nappropriate office facility of juvenile delinquents temporarily\ntransferred to his custody pursuant to section 353.4 of the family court\nact.\n (b) Immediately upon t…

§ 9.51 Residential treatment facilities for children and youth;\n admissions.\n (a) The director of a residential treatment facility for children and\nyouth, as defined by section 1.03 of this chapter, may receive as a\npatient a person under the age of twenty-one in need of care…

§ 9.53 Children in the custody of social services officials or the\n division for youth.\n (a) Admission of a child in the care and custody of a social services\nofficial or authorized agency, the director of the division for youth or\na person or entity granted such custody purs…

* § 9.55 Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care and\n treatment; powers of qualified psychiatrists.\n A qualified psychiatrist shall have the power to direct the removal of\nany person, whose treatment for a mental illness he or she is either\nsupervising or providi…

* § 9.57 Emergency admissions for immediate observation, care and\n treatment; powers of emergency room physicians.\n A physician who has examined a person in an emergency room or provided\nemergency medical services at a general hospital, as defined in article\ntwenty-eight of t…

§ 9.58 Transport for evaluation; powers of approved mobile crisis\n outreach teams.\n (a) A physician or qualified mental health professional who is a\nmember of an approved mobile crisis outreach team shall have the power\nto remove, or pursuant to subdivision (b) of this sectio…

* § 9.59 Immunity from liability.\n (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any general, special\nor local law, an ambulance service as defined by subdivision two of\nsection three thousand one of the public health law and any member\nthereof who is an emergency medical…

* § 9.60 Assisted outpatient treatment.\n (a) Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following\ndefinitions shall apply:\n (1) "assisted outpatient treatment" shall mean categories of\noutpatient services which have been ordered by the court pursuant to\nthis section. Suc…

* § 9.63 Transportation of persons to or between hospitals.\n In carrying out the transportation of any person to or between a\nhospital, including a comprehensive psychiatric emergency program,\npursuant to the provisions of this article appropriate attempts shall be\nmade to el…

§ 9.64 Notice of admission determination to community provider.\n Upon an admission to a hospital or received as a patient in a\ncomprehensive psychiatric emergency program, the director of such\nhospital or program shall, in accordance with section 33.13 of this\nchapter, ensure…

§ 91.01 Laws repealed.\n Chapter four hundred twenty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred nine,\nentitled "An act relating to the mentally ill, mental defectives and\nepileptics, constituting chapter twenty-seven of the consolidated laws",\nand all acts amendatory thereof and supp…

§ 91.02 Application of certain amendments, repeals or additions to\n former mental hygiene law.\n (a) An act of the legislature of the year in which this act shall have\nbecome a law which, in form, amends or repeals or purports to amend or\nrepeal any provision or provisions of …

§ 91.03 Savings clause.\n Nothing contained in this chapter or any act amendatory thereof shall\naffect or impair the validity of any act done or right accruing, accrued\nor acquired, or any order, judgment, or status established prior to the\nenactment of this chapter or prior t…

§ 91.04 Separability clause.\n If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this chapter\nshall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,\nsuch judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder\nthereof, but shall be confined in its…

§ 91.05 Time of taking effect.\n This act shall take effect on the first day of January next succeeding\nthe date on which it shall have become a law.\n