If the evaluation and treatment facility, secure withdrawal management and stabilization facility, or approved substance use disorder treatment program admits the person, it may detain him or her for evaluation and treatment for a period not to exceed one hundred twenty hours from the time of acceptance as set forth in RCW 71.05.170. The computation of such one hundred twenty hour period shall exclude Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
RCW 71.05.180
Detention period for evaluation and treatment.
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 100 Wash. 2d 421 - Petersen v. State (1983)
Most recently applied in In re Det. of D.H. (July 2023)
2020 c 302 s 20; 2019 c 446 s 18; 2016 sp.s. c 29 s 219; 1997 c 112 s 12; 1979 ex.s. c 215 s 11; 1974 ex.s. c 145 s 11; 1973 1st ex.s. c 142 s 23.
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