1. A. The Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall promulgate rules for the reception and retention of voluntary consumers by state facilities.

2. B. The executive director in charge of any state facility or licensed private hospital for care and treatment of the mentally ill may at his or her discretion receive and retain therein as a consumer:

   1. 1. Any person eighteen (18) years of age or over, suitable for care and treatment, who voluntarily makes written application;
   2. 2. Any person, suitable for care and treatment at least sixteen (16) years but not over eighteen (18) years of age, with the consent of such person’s parent or guardian.
3. C. A person received at any facility pursuant to this section shall not be detained for a period exceeding seventy-two (72) hours, excluding weekends and holidays, from and inclusive of the date of notice in writing of his intention or desire to leave such hospital or facility.

4. D. The form for voluntary application shall be printed or written on eight and one-half-inch by eleven-inch paper and shall be substantially as follows:

   Mental Health Law Form 19.

   VOLUNTARY APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FACILITY ______AT______

   Application is hereby made for my admission to the above named facility within the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services as a voluntary consumer under the provisions of the Oklahoma Mental Health Law.

   Dated this ____ day of ____, 20__.

   ________________Applicant

   ________________Address

   Subscribed and sworn to before me this ____ day of ____, 20__.

   ________________________
   Notary Public

5. E. The applicant, or someone on behalf of the applicant, must pay a bond for the cost of care and treatment or pay such cost each month in advance, unless it is determined that the applicant is a poor or indigent person as provided in this title.

Added by Laws 1953, HB 846, c. 1, § 53, emerg. eff. June 3, 1953; Amended by Laws 1965, HB 719, c. 265, § 1, emerg. eff. June 23, 1965; Renumbered from 43A O.S. § 53 by Laws 1986, HB 2021, c. 103, § 103, eff. November 1, 1986; Amended by Laws 1986, HB 2021, c. 103, § 70, eff. November 1, 1986; Amended by Laws 1990, SB 866, c. 51, § 97, emerg. eff. April 9, 1990; Amended by Laws 2002, SB 1624, c. 488, § 35, eff. November 1, 2002 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2005, HB 1845, c. 150, § 41, emerg. eff. May 9, 2005 (superseded document available).