Walk It Through: The Evaluation Hold
Emergency admission, a second physician by forty-eight hours, and a hearing within five days.
A person is brought to an approved hospital, and a staff physician examines them.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One emergency admission to an approved hospital. Transfer to involuntary status after the emergency period, the hearings that go with it, and the other admission routes in the article are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Chemical test refusalRefusing a chemical test after being told the license will be suspended at once and later revoked, whether or not the driver is found guilty. A license revoked for refusal is not restored for at least one year.
- Emergency admissionAdmission to an approved hospital, for a period of fifteen days, of a person alleged to have a mental illness for which immediate observation, care and treatment in a hospital is appropriate and which is likely to result in serious harm to themself or others.