Welf. & Inst. Code, § 5208 · Article 2. Court-Ordered Evaluation for Persons with a Mental Health Condition
Welf. & Inst. Code, § 5208
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
As promptly as possible, a copy of the petition and the order for evaluation shall be personally served on the person to be evaluated and the professional person in charge of the facility for treatment and evaluation named in the order, or his designee.
If the person to be evaluated fails to appear for an evaluation at the time designated in the order, the professional person in charge, or his designee, shall notify the person who served the order to have the person to be evaluated detained pursuant to the order.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1667.
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