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| 9.__Postadmission examination.__Every person admitted to an | approved treatment facility must be examined immediately after | admission in accordance with the following. |
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| A.__The administrator of the approved treatment facility | shall arrange for examination of every person admitted under | this section by a staff physician. |
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| B.__The physician performing the examination may not be the | physician who performed the certifying examination under | this section or under section 20045-D. |
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| C.__If the postadmission examination is not held within 48 | hours after the time of the admission or if a staff | physician fails or refuses after the examination to certify | that, in the physician's opinion, the person continues to be | a chemically dependent person who is incapacitated, the | person must be immediately discharged. |
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| | A person detained pursuant to this subchapter is entitled to | the writ of habeas corpus, upon proper petition by the person or | by another person to a justice generally empowered to issue the | writ of habeas corpus in the county in which the person is | detained. |
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| §20045-D.__Continued involuntary treatment |
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| | 1.__Application.__If the administrator or the admitting | physician of the approved treatment facility determines that a | chemically dependent person committed under section 20045-B needs | continued treatment, the administrator or admitting physician may | make an application to the District Court for the continued | involuntary treatment of the person at an approved treatment | facility.__The application to the court must be accompanied by: |
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| A.__The emergency treatment order issued under section | 20045-B; |
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| B.__The certificate of examination by a physician under | section 20045-B, subsection 2; |
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| C. The certificate of postadmission examination by a | physician under section 20045-B, subsection 9 that: |
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| (1)__The physician has examined the patient; and |
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