CHC 1451 - Conversion to voluntary status

Art. 1451. Conversion to voluntary status

A. No director of a treatment facility shall prohibit any mentally ill minor or minor suffering from substance abuse from applying for conversion of involuntary or emergency admission status to voluntary admission status.

B. Any minor patient on an involuntary admission status shall have the right to apply for a writ of habeas corpus to have his admission status changed to voluntary status.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §14, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.