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hospitalization in a nonstate mental health institution or hospital |
| for the mentally ill. If a juvenile client or juvenile detainee is |
| or becomes 18 years of age while still under commitment or while |
| still detained, the statutory guardianship of the commissioner over |
| the juvenile client or juvenile detainee terminates, but the |
| juvenile client or juvenile detainee remains subject to the control |
| of the commissioner and staff and rules of the facility until the |
| expiration of the period of commitment or until release or |
| discharge from the facility. Nothing in this subsection may be |
| construed to override the requirement to make application for |
| psychiatric hospitalization in accordance with Title 34-B, section |
| 3863, unless hospitalization is made with the juvenile client's or |
| juvenile detainee's consent in accordance with Title 34-B, section |
| 3831. If placement in a licensed residential care facility |
| providing a mental health treatment program is an appropriate |
| alternative to psychiatric hospitalization, that placement may be |
| made by the commissioner with the juvenile client's or juvenile |
| detainee's consent. |
