Section 10-625 - Emergency involuntary admission. - Maryland Statutes

§ 10-625. Emergency involuntary admission.
 

(a)  Placement.- If an emergency evaluee meets the requirements for an involuntary admission and is unable or unwilling to agree to a voluntary admission under this subtitle, the examining physician shall take the steps needed for involuntary admission of the emergency evaluee to an appropriate facility, which may be a general hospital with a licensed inpatient psychiatric unit. 

(b)  Inability to place.-  

(1) If the examining physician is unable to have the emergency evaluee admitted to a facility, the physician shall notify the Department. 

(2) Within 6 hours after notification, the Department shall provide for admission of the emergency evaluee to an appropriate facility. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 59, § 22; 1982, ch. 21, § 2; 1990, ch. 500.]