62A-15-636 - Periodic review -- Discharge.
62A-15-636. Periodic review -- Discharge.
Each local mental health authority or its designee shall, as frequently as practicable,examine or cause to be examined every person who has been committed to it. Whenever thelocal mental health authority or its designee determines that the conditions justifying involuntarycommitment no longer exist, it shall discharge the patient. If the patient has been committedthrough judicial proceedings, a report describing that determination shall be sent to the clerk ofthe court where the proceedings were held.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 8, 2002 Special Session 5