Okla. Stat. tit. 43A, § 43A-5-302
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Informal consumers - Admission
Official statutory text
A. Any person may be admitted to a state mental hospital or
state-operated community mental health center or a private mental
health hospital or private community mental health center on a
voluntary basis as an informal consumer when there are available
accommodations and in the judgment of the person in charge of the
facility or a designee such person may require treatment therein.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 43A. Mental Health Page 130
Such person may be admitted as an informal consumer without making
formal or written application therefor and any such informal
consumer shall be free to leave such facility on any day between the
hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. and at such other times as the
person in charge of the facility may determine.
B. No person shall be admitted as an informal consumer pursuant
to the provisions of this section to any state mental hospital or
state-operated community mental health center unless the person in
charge of the facility or a designee has informed such consumer in
writing of the following:
1. The rules and procedures of the facility relating to the
discharge of informal consumers;
2. The legal rights of an informal consumer receiving treatment
from the facility; and
3. The types of treatment which are available to the informal
consumer at the facility.
state-operated community mental health center or a private mental
health hospital or private community mental health center on a
voluntary basis as an informal consumer when there are available
accommodations and in the judgment of the person in charge of the
facility or a designee such person may require treatment therein.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 43A. Mental Health Page 130
Such person may be admitted as an informal consumer without making
formal or written application therefor and any such informal
consumer shall be free to leave such facility on any day between the
hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. and at such other times as the
person in charge of the facility may determine.
B. No person shall be admitted as an informal consumer pursuant
to the provisions of this section to any state mental hospital or
state-operated community mental health center unless the person in
charge of the facility or a designee has informed such consumer in
writing of the following:
1. The rules and procedures of the facility relating to the
discharge of informal consumers;
2. The legal rights of an informal consumer receiving treatment
from the facility; and
3. The types of treatment which are available to the informal
consumer at the facility.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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