Act No. 317

Public Acts of 2004

Approved by the Governor

August 27, 2004

Filed with the Secretary of State

August 27, 2004

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 27, 2004

STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Senators Patterson and Sanborn

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1262

AN ACT to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled "An act to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to mental health; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials and certain private agencies and individuals; to regulate certain agencies and facilities providing mental health services; to provide for certain charges and fees; to establish civil admission procedures for individuals with mental illness or developmental disability; to establish guardianship procedures for individuals with developmental disability; to establish procedures regarding individuals with mental illness or developmental disability who are in the criminal justice system; to provide for penalties and remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts," by amending section 422 (MCL 330.1422), as added by 1995 PA 290.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 422. (1) Each community mental health services program shall designate the hospitals with which it has a contract to receive and detain individuals under section 427 or 428.

(2) Each community mental health services program shall give notice of the hospitals designated under subsection (1) to the department and to the probate court of each county in the program's service area.

(3) The department shall designate those hospitals that are required to receive and detain individuals presented for examination under section 427 or 428.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor