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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85593</law_id><section_number>37.2-805</section_number><catch_line>(Effective July 1, 2026) Voluntary admission</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-308.1:3</reference><reference>18.2-308.2:2</reference><reference>19.2-169.6</reference><reference>37.2-1102</reference><reference>37.2-505</reference><reference>37.2-801</reference><reference>37.2-806</reference><reference>37.2-814</reference><reference>37.2-817</reference><reference>37.2-819</reference><reference>37.2-821</reference><reference>37.2-836</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="37.2">Behavioral Health and Developmental Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Admissions and Dispositions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="8">Emergency Custody and Voluntary and Involuntary Civil Admissions</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Voluntary Admission</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">state</span> <span class="dictionary">facility</span> shall admit any person requesting admission who has been (i) screened by the <span class="dictionary">community services board</span> or <span class="dictionary">behavioral health authority</span> that serves the county or city where the person resides or, if impractical, where the person is located, (ii) examined by a physician on the staff of the <span class="dictionary">state</span> <span class="dictionary">facility</span>, and (iii) deemed by the board or authority and the <span class="dictionary">state</span> <span class="dictionary">facility</span> physician to be in need of treatment, training, or habilitation in a <span class="dictionary">state</span> <span class="dictionary">facility</span>. Upon <span class="dictionary">motion</span> of the treating physician, a <span class="dictionary">family member</span> or personal representative of the person, or the <span class="dictionary">community services board</span> serving the county or city where the <span class="dictionary">facility</span> is located, the county or city where the person resides, or the county or city where the person receives treatment, a <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> shall be held prior to the release date of any person who has been the subject of a temporary detention <span class="dictionary">order</span> and voluntarily admitted himself in accordance with subsection B of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="(Effective July 1, 2026) Commitment hearing for involuntary admission; written explanation; right to counsel; rights of petitioner" href="/37.2-814/">37.2-814</a> to determine whether such person should be ordered to mandatory outpatient treatment pursuant to subsection D of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Mandatory outpatient treatment" href="/37.2-817.01/">37.2-817.01</a>, except that such 36-month period shall not include any time during which the person was receiving inpatient psychiatric treatment or was incarcerated, as established by <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> admitted at the <span class="dictionary">hearing</span>, upon his release if such person, on at least two previous occasions within 36 months preceding the date of the <span class="dictionary">hearing</span>, has been (a) the subject of a temporary detention <span class="dictionary">order</span> and voluntarily admitted himself in accordance with subsection B of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="(Effective July 1, 2026) Commitment hearing for involuntary admission; written explanation; right to counsel; rights of petitioner" href="/37.2-814/">37.2-814</a> or (b) involuntarily admitted pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="(Effective July 1, 2026) Involuntary admission" href="/37.2-817/">37.2-817</a>. A district <span class="dictionary">court</span> <span class="dictionary">judge</span> or <span class="dictionary">special justice</span> shall hold the <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> within 72 hours after receiving the <span class="dictionary">motion</span> for a mandatory outpatient treatment <span class="dictionary">order</span>; however, if the 72-hour period expires on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> shall be held by the close of business on the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 37-113; 1950, p. 915; 1964, c. 640; 1968, c. 477, &#xA7; 37.1-65; 1970, c. 46; 1972, cc. 639, 823; 1976, c. 671; 1980, c. 582; 1998, c. 446; 2005, c. 716; 2012, c. 300; 2013, c. 179; 2022, c. 763; 2024, c. 780.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
