(1) The application must be made to the District Court having territorial jurisdiction over the hospital to which the person was admitted on an emergency basis.

(2) The application must be filed within 5 3 days from the date of admission of the patient under this section, excluding the day of admission and any Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday except that, if the 3rd day falls on a weekend or holiday, the application must be filed on the next business day following that weekend or holiday.

C. If neither readmission on an informal voluntary basis nor application to the District Court is effected under this subsection, the chief administrative officer of the hospital to which the person was admitted on an emergency basis shall discharge the person immediately.

Sec. BBBB-7. 34-B MRSA §3863, sub-§5, ¶D is enacted to read:

D.__If the chief administrative officer of the hospital has filed an application in the District Court for an order of hospitalization under section 3864 but the hearing on the application has not yet been conducted, the chief administrative officer may also submit in the interim a request for an administrative hearing before a hearing officer employed by or under contract with the department to administer medication on an involuntary basis to the patient if the court orders such commitment.__In such cases, the administrative hearing to consider the request for involuntary treatment must be held within 4 business days of the date of the court's order permitting involuntary hospitalization under section 3864.

Sec. BBBB-8. 34-B MRSA §3863, sub-§8 is enacted to read:

8.__Rehospitalization from progressive treatment program.__The assertive community treatment team physician or psychologist may make a written application under this section to admit to a state mental health institute a person who fails to fully participate in the progressive treatment program in accordance