§ 7504 - Application for emergency examination - Vermont Statutes

§ 7504. Application for emergency examination

(a) A person shall be admitted to a designated hospital for an emergency examination to determine if he or she is a person in need of treatment upon written application by an interested party accompanied by a certificate by a licensed physician who is not the applicant. The application and certificate shall set forth the facts and circumstances which constitute the need for an emergency examination and which show that the person is a person in need of treatment.

(b) The application and certificate shall be authority for transporting the person to a designated hospital for an emergency examination, as provided in section 7511 of this title.

(c) For the purposes of admission of an individual to a designated hospital for care and treatment under this section, a head of a hospital, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, may include a person designated in writing by the head of the hospital to discharge the authority granted in this section. A designated person must be an official hospital administrator, supervisory personnel or a licensed physician on duty on the hospital premises other than the certifying physician under subsection (a) of this section. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 1969, No. 33, § 2, eff. April 1, 1969; 1973, No. 107, § 4; 1977, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 2003, No. 122 (Adj. Sess.), § 141f.)