No person shall be accepted into any facility without the use of the properly executed official forms. The properly executed order to hospitalize or the order of admission shall be full and sufficient authority and protection to the executive director or the person acting as such in the absence of the executive director for receiving and detaining in the hospital the person named on the form.

Laws 1953, HB 846, p. 167, § 63, emerg. eff. June 3, 1953; Renumbered from 43A O.S. § 63 by Laws 1986, HB 2021, c. 103, § 103, eff. November 1, 1986; Amended by Laws 2005, HB 1845, c. 150, § 35, emerg. eff. May 9, 2005 (superseded document available).