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PUBLIC HEALTH

CHAPTER 135-C
NEW HAMPSHIRE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES SYSTEM

Nonemergency Involuntary Admissions

Section 135-C:34

    135-C:34 Involuntary Treatment Standard. – The standard to be used by a court, physician, or psychiatrist in determining whether a person should be admitted to a receiving facility for treatment on an involuntary basis shall be whether the person is in such mental condition as a result of mental illness as to create a potentially serious likelihood of danger to himself or to others.

Source. 1986, 212:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.