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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 574.042

COMMITMENT TO PRIVATE FACILITY

Known as the Texas Mental Health Code

The act spans §§ 571.001 to 580.005 (237 sections).

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff

The court may order a patient committed to a private mental hospital at no expense to the state if the court receives:

(1) an application signed by the patient or the patient's guardian or next friend requesting that the patient be placed in a designated private mental hospital at the patient's or applicant's expense; and

(2) written agreement from the hospital administrator of the private mental hospital to admit the patient and to accept responsibility for the patient in accordance with this subtitle.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.