Missouri Laws 633.160 – Emergency admission may be made, duration, conditions
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 633.160
- Developmental disability facility: a private or department facility, other than a regional center, which admits persons with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability for residential habilitation and other services and which is qualified or licensed as such by the department pursuant to chapter 630. See Missouri Laws 633.005
- Guardianship: if used in a section in a context relating to rights and obligations other than property rights or obligations, means guardian of the person as defined in chapter 475. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Regional center: an entity so designated by the department to provide, directly or indirectly, for comprehensive developmental disability services under this chapter in a particular region. See Missouri Laws 633.005
If a person presents himself, or is presented, to a regional center or department developmental disability facility and is determined to be intellectually disabled or developmentally disabled and, as a result, presents an imminent likelihood of serious harm to himself or others as defined in chapter 632, the regional center or developmental disability facility may accept the person for detention for evaluation and treatment for a period not to exceed ninety-six hours under the same procedures contained in chapter 632. The head of the regional center or developmental disability facility may initiate guardianship proceedings to have the person detained beyond the ninety-six hours under chapter 475, or may refer the person to a mental health facility, if the person is mentally ill, for further detention under the procedures in chapter 632.