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NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.15 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.15 - Informal Admissions.

§ 9.15 Informal admissions.The  director  of  any  hospital approved by the commissioner for such   purpose may receive therein as an informal patient any  suitable  person   in  need of care and treatment requesting admission thereto. Such person   may  be  admitted  as  a  patient  without  making  formal  or   written   application  therefor  and  any such patient shall be free to leave such   hospital at any time after such admission.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.17 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.17 - Voluntary and Informal Admissions; Suitability.

§ 9.17 Voluntary and informal admissions; suitability.  (a)  In  order for a person to be suitable for admission to a hospital as a voluntary or informal patient, or for conversion to such status  he must be notified of and have the ability to understand the following:   1. that the hospital to which he is requesting admission is a hospital for the mentally ill.   2. that he is making an application for admission.   3.  the nature of the voluntary or informal status, as the case may be and the  provisions  governing  release  or  conversion  to  involuntary status.  (b)  The  department  shall  have  the  power  to examine the patients admitted pursuant to this section and determine if they  belong  to  the voluntary  or  informal class. If it be determined that any such patient does not belong to the voluntary or informal class, the department shall determine whether the patient shall be discharged or whether  procedures shall  be  commenced  for  the  admission  of such patient to a hospital pursuant to  other  sections  of  this  article.  The  decision  of  the department shall be forthwith complied with by the director or person in charge  of any such hospital. Any failure to conform to the requirements of this section shall be considered a sufficient cause for revocation of an operating certificate theretofore issued to a hospital.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.19 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.19 - Voluntary and Informal Admissions; Notices.

§ 9.19 Voluntary and informal admissions; notices.The  director  shall  cause  all  patients  admitted  as  voluntary or   informal patients to be informed once during  each  one  hundred  twenty   days  of  hospitalization  of  their  status and rights, including their   right to avail themselves of the facilities of the mental hygiene  legal   service.  At the time of such periodic notification, the written consent   of  a  patient  to his continued stay as a voluntary or informal patient   shall be obtained and a copy  thereof  shall  be  given  to  the  mental   hygiene legal service.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.21 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.21 - Voluntary and Informal Admissions; Encouragement Of.

§ 9.21 Voluntary and informal admissions; encouragement of.  (a) It shall be the duty of all state and local officers having duties to perform relating to the mentally ill to encourage any person suitable therefor  and  in need of care and treatment for mental illness to apply for admission as a voluntary or informal patient.  (b) No requirement shall be made by rule, regulation, or otherwise  as a  condition  to  admission  or  retention  that any person applying for admission shall have the legal capacity to contract.  (c) A person requesting admission to a hospital, who is  suitable  for admission  on  a voluntary or informal status, shall be admitted only on such a voluntary or informal status. The hospital shall, in  such  case, have  the  discretion  to admit the person on either such status, except that, if the person  specifically  requests  admission  on  an  informal status  and  is  suitable  therefor,  he  shall be admitted only on such informal status.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.23 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.23 - Voluntary and Informal Admissions; Conversion To.

§ 9.23 Voluntary and informal admissions; conversion to.  (a)  Nothing  contained in this article shall be construed to prohibit any director from converting, and it shall be his duty to  convert,  the admission  of  any  involuntary  patient  suitable  and willing to apply therefor to a voluntary status. The mental hygiene legal  service  shall be  given  notice  of  every  conversion from an involuntary status to a voluntary status.  (b) Any patient converted from an involuntary status  to  a  voluntary status  shall  have  the  right to a judicial hearing before the supreme court or a county court on the questions of  his  suitability  for  such conversion  and on his willingness to be so converted. The procedure for requesting such a hearing, except as to time limitations  and  questions to  be  determined,  shall  be  pursuant  to subdivisions (a) and (b) of section 9.31 of this article.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.25 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.25 - Voluntary and Informal Admissions; Review of Status.

§ 9.25 Voluntary and informal admissions; review of status.  (a)  No voluntary or informal patient, whether admitted on such status or converted thereto, shall be continued in such  status  for  a  period beyond  twelve  months  from  the date of commencement of such status or beyond twelve months from the effective date of this statute,  whichever is  later,  unless  the  suitability  of  such patient to remain in such status and his willingness to so remain have been reviewed. The director shall review the suitability of such patient to remain in  such  status, and  the  mental  hygiene  legal service shall review the willingness of such patient to remain in such status. Notice of  the  determination  of the  patient's  suitability  made  by the director shall be given to the mental hygiene legal service. If the mental hygiene legal service  finds that  there  is  any ground to doubt the director's determination of the suitability of such patient to remain in a voluntary or informal  status or  the  willingness  of  the  patient  to  so  remain, it shall make an application upon notice to the patient and the director of the hospital, for a court order determining those questions. In any  such  proceeding, the patient or someone on his behalf or the mental hygiene legal service may  request  a  hearing.  If  the mental hygiene legal service finds no grounds  to  doubt  the  determination  of  the  director  as   to   the suitability,  or  the  willingness  of  the  patient  to  continue  in a voluntary or informal status, it shall so certify and the patient may be continued in the hospital in such status. A copy of  such  certification of review shall be filed in the patient's record.  (b) If an application for a court order has been made and a hearing is requested,  the  provisions governing hearings contained in section 9.31 of this article shall be applicable.  (c) If an application for a court order has been made, the  court,  in determining the proceeding, may approve the continued hospitalization of the  patient  as  a voluntary or informal patient or, if the court finds that the patient is not suitable or willing to continue as  a  voluntary or  informal  patient, it may order the discharge of the patient or make such other order as it may deem appropriate in the circumstances.  (d) Prior to the termination of twelve months from  the  date  of  the certification  on  such first review by the mental hygiene legal service or, if an application for a court order has been made, from the date  of the  first  order  and,  thereafter,  prior to the termination of twelve months from any subsequent certification or  subsequent  order,  as  the case  may  be,  the  director and the mental hygiene legal service shall conduct another review of the patient's suitability and  willingness  to remain  as a voluntary or informal patient as set forth in the foregoing subdivisions.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.29 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.29 - Involuntary Admission on Medical Certification; Notice of Admission to Patients and Others.

§ 9.29 Involuntary   admission   on  medical  certification;  notice  of          admission to patients and others.  (a) The director shall cause written notice of a person's  involuntary admission  on  an  application  supported by medical certification to be given forthwith to the mental hygiene legal service.  (b) The director shall cause written notice of the admission  of  such person,  including  such person's rights under this article, to be given personally or by mail not later than five  days,  excluding  Sunday  and holidays, after such admission to the following:   1.  the  nearest  relative  of  the person alleged to be mentally ill, other than the applicant, if there be  any  such  person  known  to  the director.   2.  as  many  as three additional persons, if designated in writing to receive such notice by the person so admitted.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.35 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.35 - Review of Court Authorization to Retain an Involuntary Patient.

§ 9.35 Review of court authorization to retain an involuntary patient.If  a person who has been denied release or whose retention, continued   retention, or transfer  and  continued  retention  has  been  authorized   pursuant  to  this  article, or any relative or friend in his behalf, be   dissatisfied with any such order he may, within thirty  days  after  the   making  of  any  such  order,  obtain  a  rehearing  and a review of the   proceedings already had and of such order upon a petition to  a  justice   of  the supreme court other than the judge or justice presiding over the   court making such order. Such justice shall cause a jury to be  summoned   and  shall  try  the  question  of  the  mental illness and the need for   retention of the patient so authorized to be retained. Any such  patient   or the person applying on his behalf for such review may waive the trial   of  the  fact  by a jury and consent in writing to trial of such fact by   the court. No such petition for rehearing and review shall  be  made  by   anyone other than the person so authorized to be retained or the father,   mother,  husband,  wife,  or child of such person, unless the petitioner   shall have first obtained the leave of the court upon good cause  shown.   If the verdict of the jury, or the decision of the court when jury trial   has  been  waived, be that such person does not have a mental illness or   is not in need of retention the justice shall forthwith  discharge  him,   but  if  the  verdict  of the jury, or the decision of the court where a   jury trial has been waived, be that such person has a mental illness and   is in need of retention the justice shall certify that fact and make  an   order  authorizing  continued  retention  under the original order. Such   order shall be presented, at the  time  of  authorization  of  continued   retention  of such mentally ill person, to, and filed with, the director   of the hospital in which the person with a mental illness is  authorized   to  be retained, and a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the department   by such director and filed in the office thereof. Proceedings under  the   order  shall  not  be stayed pending an appeal therefrom, except upon an   order of a justice of the supreme court, made upon a notice and after  a   hearing,  with  provisions  made  therein  for  such  temporary  care or   confinement of the alleged person with a mental illness as may be deemed   necessary.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.46 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.46 - Reports of Substantial Risk or Threat of Harm by Mental Health Professionals.

§ 9.46 Reports  of  substantial  risk or threat of harm by mental health          professionals.  (a)  For  purposes  of  this  section,   the   term   "mental   health professional"  shall include a physician, psychologist, registered nurse or licensed clinical social worker.  (b) Notwithstanding any other law  to  the  contrary,  when  a  mental health  professional  currently providing treatment services to a person determines, in the exercise of reasonable  professional  judgment,  that such  person is likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or others, he or she shall be required to report,  as  soon as practicable, to the director of community services, or the director's designee,  who shall report to the division of criminal justice services whenever he or she agrees that the person is likely to  engage  in  such conduct.  Information  transmitted  to  the division of criminal justice services shall be limited to names and  other  non-clinical  identifying information,  which  may  only be used for determining whether a license issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal law should  be  suspended or  revoked,  or  for  determining  whether a person is ineligible for a license issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal  law,  or  is  no longer permitted under state or federal law to possess a firearm.  (c)  Nothing  in  this  section shall be construed to require a mental health professional to  take  any  action  which,  in  the  exercise  of reasonable  professional  judgment,  would  endanger  such mental health professional or increase the danger to a potential victim or victims.  (d) The decision of a mental health professional to disclose or not to disclose in accordance with this section, when made  reasonably  and  in good  faith,  shall not be the basis for any civil or criminal liability of such mental health professional.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.49 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.49 - Transfer of Juvenile Delinquents.

§ 9.49 Transfer of juvenile delinquents.  (a)  The  commissioner  shall receive and arrange the admission to the appropriate  office  facility  of   juvenile   delinquents   temporarily transferred to his custody pursuant to section 353.4 of the family court act.  (b) Immediately upon the admission of a juvenile to an office facility pursuant  to this section, the director shall comply with the provisions of section 9.07 of this chapter, and the mental  hygiene  legal  service shall   contact  such  juvenile  and  explain  and  make  available  the facilities thereof. Any juvenile placed pursuant to this  section  shall be subject to the provisions of article nine of this chapter.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.53 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.53 - Children in the Custody of Social Services Officials or the Division for Youth.

§ 9.53 Children  in  the  custody  of  social  services officials or the          division for youth.  (a) Admission of a child in the care and custody of a social  services official or authorized agency, the director of the division for youth or a  person  or  entity  granted  such  custody  pursuant to section seven hundred fifty-six or one thousand fifty-five of the family court act  to a  hospital  or  residential  treatment  facility for children and youth shall not be considered to effect a change in custody of such child  and the  responsibilities  of  such  person  or entity having custody of the child shall continue as  described  in  the  social  services  law,  the executive law, the family court act and in any court order granting such custody.  (b)  Persons  in the custody of a social services official, authorized agency, the division for youth or another person or entity  pursuant  to an  outstanding  and  valid  court  order  shall only be released to the custody of that person or entity.  (c) Prior to the discharge or release of a child who at  the  time  of such  release  remains  in  the  custody  of a social services official, authorized agency, the division for youth, or a person or entity granted such custody pursuant to section seven hundred fifty-six or one thousand fifty-five of the family court act, the facility in which the  child  is receiving treatment shall plan the discharge of the child as required in section  29.15  of  this chapter. The facility shall prepare the plan in collaboration with the person or entity having custody of the child  and it  shall  be  the  duty  of such person or entity to cooperate with the facility in that effort. Notwithstanding any inconsistent  provision  of law,  and subject to separate interagency agreements to be negotiated by the commissioner  of  mental  health  and  the  commissioner  of  social services  and  the commissioner of mental health and the director of the division for youth, information derived  from  the  clinical  record  as required  by this section may be revealed to the person or entity having custody of the child, to the  extent  release  of  such  information  is necessary to assure adequate discharge planning.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.63 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 9 - Hospitalization of Persons With a Mental Illness 9.63 - Transportation of Persons to or Between Hospitals.

* § 9.63 Transportation of persons to or between hospitals.In  carrying  out  the  transportation  of  any person to or between a   hospital,  including  a  comprehensive  psychiatric  emergency  program,   pursuant to the provisions of this article appropriate attempts shall be   made to elicit the cooperation of the person to be transported, prior to   resorting to compulsory means of transportation.* NB Effective until June 30, 2022   * § 9.61 Transportation of persons to or between hospitals.In  carrying  out  the  transportation  of  any person to or between a   hospital,  including  a  comprehensive  psychiatric  emergency  program,   pursuant to the provisions of this article appropriate attempts shall be   made to elicit the cooperation of the person to be transported, prior to   resorting to compulsory means of transportation.* NB Effective June 30, 2022
NY Ment Hygiene L § 10.13 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 10 - Sex Offenders Requiring Civil Commitment or Supervision 10.13 - Appeals.

§ 10.13 Appeals.  (a) The attorney general may, in the appellate division of the supreme court,  seek  a  stay of any order under this article releasing a person under this article.  (b) The attorney general may appeal as of right from an order  entered pursuant  to subdivision (k) of section 10.06 of this article dismissing the petition following a determination that probable  cause  to  believe that the respondent is a sex offender requiring civil management has not been  established. No appeal may be taken from an order entered pursuant to subdivision (k) of section 10.06 of  this  article  determining  that probable  cause  has been established to believe the respondent is a sex offender  requiring  civil  management.  Both  the  respondent  and  the attorney  general  may  appeal  from any final order entered pursuant to this article. The provisions  of  articles  fifty-five,  fifty-six,  and fifty-seven  of  the  civil  practice law and rules shall govern appeals taken from orders entered pursuant to this article.  (c) In connection with any appeal, a  respondent  who  is  or  becomes financially  unable  to  obtain  counsel  shall  have  the right to have appellate counsel appointed on his or her behalf. Such counsel shall  be appointed  by  the  court  to which an appeal is taken. If possible, the court shall appoint the mental hygiene legal service. In the event  that the court determines that the mental hygiene legal service cannot accept appointment,   the   court   shall  appoint  an  attorney  eligible  for appointment pursuant to article eighteen-B of  the  county  law,  or  an entity,   if  any,  that  has  contracted  for  the  delivery  of  legal representation services under subdivision (c) of section 10.15  of  this article.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 10.15 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 10 - Sex Offenders Requiring Civil Commitment or Supervision 10.15 - Compensation, Fees and Expenses.

§ 10.15 Compensation, fees and expenses.  (a)  Any  compensation, fee or expense paid pursuant to the provisions of this article and article eighteen-B of the  county  law  shall  be  a state  charge  payable on vouchers approved by the court which fixed the same, after audit  by  and  on  the  warrant  of  the  comptroller.  Any compensation,  fee or expense paid to such counsel so appointed shall be paid out of funds appropriated to  the  administrative  office  for  the courts. Each claim for compensation and reimbursement shall be supported by  a  sworn  statement specifying the time expended, services rendered, expenses incurred and  reimbursement  or  compensation  applied  for  or received  in  the same case from any other source. The appropriate court shall review and determine the reasonableness of the  claims,  including the  number  of  hours  expended out of court by counsel and psychiatric examiners. When a court appoints counsel pursuant to article  eighteen-B of  the county law, such counsel shall be compensated in accordance with the provisions of that article. Notwithstanding any other  provision  of law,  psychiatric  examiners  who  are  appointed  by a court under this article, and who perform such  examinations  other  than  as  government employees,  shall  be  compensated  at  an  hourly rate to be set by the administrative board of the judicial conference.  (b) Members of the case review panel established by subdivision (a) of section 10.05 of this article shall be  entitled  to  reimbursement  for expenses  reasonably  incurred  for the performance of duties under this article.  (c) The state may contract with entities for the  provision  of  legal representation   services  to  respondents  in  proceedings  under  this article, within the amounts appropriated therefor.
NY Ment Hygiene L § 10.17 (2021)
2021 New York Laws MHY - Mental Hygiene Title B - Mental Health Act Article 10 - Sex Offenders Requiring Civil Commitment or Supervision 10.17 - Release of Information Authorized.

§ 10.17 Release of information authorized.The  commissioner  is  authorized to release information in accordance   with subparagraph (vii) of paragraph nine of subdivision (c) of  section   33.13 of this chapter to appropriate persons and entities when necessary   to protect the public concerning a specific sex offender requiring civil   management  under this article, and to release information in accordance   with subparagraph (viii) of paragraph nine of subdivision (c) of section   33.13 of this chapter to the attorney general and case review panel when   such persons or entities request such information  in  the  exercise  of   their statutory functions, powers, and duties under this article.