31 Or. App. 479 - Pyle v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
December 2017
most recently cited
6 state decisions
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“[The statute] authorizes voluntary commitment ... only “pursuant to rules and regulations by the Mental Health Division.” No such rules have been promulgated. Where the legislature authorizes an agency to take action ... and establishes certain prerequisites for such action, we may infer that the requirement that the agency act pursuant to rule is more than a formality. Rather, rules are a prerequisite to such action ... The statutory requirement that the Mental Health Division act pursuant to rules will be given effect. Action taken purportedly under the statute was therefore unauthorized by it and is voidable upon challenge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the Mental Health Division, the superintendent of any state hospital for the treatment and care of the mentally ill may admit and hospitalize therein as a patient, any person who may be suffering from nervous disorder or mental illness, and who voluntarily has made written application for such admission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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