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The 2002 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 397
SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES
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Section 397.6795, Florida Statutes 2002

397.6795  Transportation-assisted delivery of persons for emergency assessment.--An applicant for a person's emergency admission, or the person's spouse or guardian, a law enforcement officer, or a health officer may deliver a person named in the physician's certificate for emergency admission to a hospital or a licensed detoxification facility or addictions receiving facility for emergency assessment and stabilization.

History.--s. 6, ch. 93-39.