Provides that the state office of mental health is directed to make available, at no cost to the county, a qualified physician for the purpose of examination of persons ordered to obtain assisted outpatient treatment in certain counties.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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873
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. DESTITO, BRENNAN, MAGEE -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to examination of
persons ordered to obtain assisted outpatient treatment in counties
with a population of less than seventy-five thousand
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subdivision (e) of section 9.60 of the
2 mental hygiene law, as added by chapter 158 of the laws of 2005, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (4) In counties with a population of less than seventy-five thousand,
5 the affirmation or affidavit required by paragraph three of this subdi-
6 vision may be made by a physician who is an employee of the office. The
7 office is authorized and directed to make available, at no cost to the
8 county, a qualified physician for the purpose of making such affirmation
9 or affidavit consistent with the provisions of such paragraph.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
11 the amendments made to paragraph 4 of subdivision (e) of section 9.60 of
12 the mental hygiene law by section one of this act shall not affect the
13 repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01709-01-1
