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[CITE: 42USC3418]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
               CHAPTER 42--NARCOTIC ADDICT REHABILITATION
 
SUBCHAPTER II--CIVIL COMMITMENT OF PERSONS NOT CHARGED WITH ANY CRIMINAL 
                                 OFFENSE
 
Sec. 3418. Petition for inquiry into health and general 
        condition and necessity for continuation of confinement; order 
        for release from confinement and return to court; placing 
        patient under posthospitalization treatment
        
    The court, upon the petition of any patient after his confinement 
pursuant to this subchapter for a period in excess of there months, 
shall inquire into the health and general condition of the patient and 
as to the necessity, if any, for his continued confinement. If the court 
finds, with or without a hearing, that his continued confinement is no 
longer necessary or desirable, it shall order the patient released from 
confinement and returned to the court. The court may, with respect to 
any such patient so returned, place such patient under a 
posthospitalization program in accordance with the provisions of 
subsection (a) of section 3417 of this title.

(Pub. L. 89-793, title III, Sec. 308, Nov. 8, 1966, 80 Stat. 1447.)
