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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3869

  • Chief administrative officer: means the head of a state institution or the head of any other institution which provides services which fall under the jurisdiction of the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 1001
  • Patient: means a person under observation, care or treatment in a psychiatric hospital or residential care facility pursuant to this subchapter, a person receiving services from an assertive community treatment team, a person receiving intensive mental health management services from the department or a person being evaluated for emergency admission under section 3863 in a hospital emergency department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-B Sec. 3801
  • Psychiatric hospital: means :
If any patient committed under section 3864 leaves the grounds of the psychiatric hospital without authorization of the chief administrative officer of the psychiatric hospital or the chief administrative officer’s designee, or refuses to return to the psychiatric hospital from a community pass when requested to do so by the chief administrative officer or the chief administrative officer’s designee, law enforcement personnel of the State or of any of its subdivisions may, upon request of the chief administrative officer or the chief administrative officer’s designee, assist in the return of the patient to the psychiatric hospital. [PL 2007, c. 319, §15 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY

PL 1983, c. 459, §7 (NEW). PL 2007, c. 319, §15 (AMD).