Tex. Health & Safety Code § 593.044 · Subchapter C. COMMITMENT TO RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITY
ORDER FOR PROTECTIVE CUSTODY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The court in which an application for a hearing is filed may order the proposed resident taken into protective custody if the court determines from certificates filed with the court that the proposed resident is:
(1) believed to be a person with an intellectual disability; and
(2) likely to cause injury to the proposed resident or others if not immediately restrained.
(b) The judge of the court may order a health or peace officer to take the proposed resident into custody and transport the person to:
(1) a designated residential care facility in which space is available; or
(2) a place deemed suitable by the county health authority.
(c) If the proposed resident is a voluntary resident, the court for good cause may order the resident's detention in:
(1) the facility to which the resident was voluntarily admitted; or
(2) another suitable location to which the resident may be transported under Subsection (b).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1445, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.593.htm
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