Pennsylvania Code › Title 37 - LAW › Part I - State Police › Chapter 33 - PROCEDURES AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR FIREARM RECORD FORMS UNDER THE UNIFORM FIREARMS ACT › FORM REQUIREMENTS › Section 33.120 - Notification of mental health commitment

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a) The notification of mental health
				  commitment and adjudication of incompetence shall be consistent in form and
				  format throughout this Commonwealth. The notification form and format shall be
				  prescribed by the State Police and used by the judges of the courts of common
				  pleas, mental health review officers and county mental health and mental
				  retardation administrators for notifying the State Police of individuals who
				  have been adjudicated as an incompetent or who have been involuntarily
				  committed to a mental institution for impatient care and treatment under
				  section 302, 303 or 304 of the Mental Health Procedures Act (50 P. S.
				  §§
											7102,
				  7103 and
				  7104). Following a
				  notification submitted to the State Police that inpatient care was necessary
				  for a person or that a person was commitable, if an examining physician
				  subsequently determines that no severe mental disability existed pursuant to
				  section 302(b) of the Mental Health Care Procedures Act, that examining
				  physician shall utilize the form and format to provide notice to the State
				  Police to expunge the previously submitted notification in accordance with
				  section 6111.1(g)(3) of
				  the act (relating to Pennsylvania State Police).
(b) It is the responsibility of the judges of
				  the courts of common pleas, mental health review officers and county mental
				  health and mental retardation administrators to ensure the notification
				  provides complete and accurate information. The notification shall include: The
				  full name of the individual who was involuntarily committed or adjudicated
				  incompetent, at least one numeric identifier (date of birth or Social Security
				  number, or both), and physical description; notification of the type of
				  commitment and date of the commitment or adjudication of incompetence; the
				  county submitting the information, and name, address and telephone number of
				  the notifying official; examining physician's certification on 302 commitments;
				  facility where the commitment occurred; court case number and date of court
				  order, where applicable. The notification shall be made to the State Police by
				  the judges of the courts of common pleas, mental health review officers and
				  mental health and mental retardation administrators within 7 days of the
				  adjudication, commitment or treatment, or determination by an examining
				  physician of the lack of severe mental disability following the initial
				  commitment as set forth in subsection (a), by the form and format prescribed by
				  the State Police. Notification made by mail, shall be directed to the
				  Pennsylvania State Police, Attention: Firearm Division, PICS Operations, 1800
				  Elmerton Avenue, Harrisburg, PA 17110. The envelope shall be marked
				  "Confidential."