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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60394</law_id><section_number>16.1-340.3</section_number><catch_line>Release of minor prior to commitment hearing for involuntary admission</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-340.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="16.1">Courts Not of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="11">Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="16">Psychiatric Treatment of Minors Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Prior to a <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> as authorized in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Involuntary commitment; petition; hearing scheduled; notice and appointment of counsel" href="/16.1-341/">16.1-341</a>, <span class="dictionary">the judge</span> may release the <span class="dictionary">minor</span> to his <span class="dictionary">parent</span> if it appears from all <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> readily available that the <span class="dictionary">minor</span> does not meet the commitment criteria specified in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Involuntary commitment; criteria" href="/16.1-345/">16.1-345</a>. The <span class="dictionary">director</span> of any facility in which the <span class="dictionary">minor</span> is detained may release the <span class="dictionary">minor</span> prior to a <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> as authorized in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Involuntary commitment; petition; hearing scheduled; notice and appointment of counsel" href="/16.1-341/">16.1-341</a> if it appears, based on an evaluation conducted by the psychiatrist or clinical psychologist treating the <span class="dictionary">minor</span>, that the <span class="dictionary">minor</span> would not meet the commitment criteria specified in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Involuntary commitment; criteria" href="/16.1-345/">16.1-345</a> if released.</p></section></text><history>2010, cc. 778, 825.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
