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order.__The health care professional or other person shall make a | written application to the physician stating: |
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| A.__The health care professional or other person's belief | that the person is a chemically dependent person who is | incapacitated and poses a likelihood of serious and imminent | harm to that chemically dependent person; and |
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| B.__The grounds for this belief. |
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| | 2.__Transportation by health care professional or other | person.__If an emergency treatment order is executed after an | application is made under subsection 1,__the health care | professional or other person accompanying the chemically | dependent person shall try to transport the chemically dependent | person to an approved treatment facility for an admission | assessment. |
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| | 3.__Law enforcement officer.__If a law enforcement officer has | reasonable grounds to believe, based upon personal observation, | that a person may be incapacitated by alcohol or other drugs, the | officer may take that person into protective custody and: |
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| A.__Take the person to an approved treatment facility; |
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| B.__Take the person to an emergency medical facility; or |
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| C.__Deliver the person for examination to an available | licensed physician as provided in section 20045-B. |
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| | 4.__Emergency treatment order executed.__If a physician | determines after an examination pursuant to section 20045-B, | subsection 2 that the person is incapacitated, the examiner shall | execute an emergency treatment order in accordance with section | 20045-B. Upon execution of the emergency treatment order, the law | enforcement officer shall take the person immediately to an | approved treatment facility for an admission assessment. |
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| | 5.__Emergency treatment order not executed.__If a physician | determines after an examination pursuant to section 20045-B, | subsection 2 that the person is not incapacitated, the law | enforcement officer shall: |
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| A.__Release the person from protective custody and, with | that person's permission, return or make arrangements for | the return of the person to that person's place of | residence, if the place of residence is within the | territorial jurisdiction of the officer; |
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