After evaluation at a designated provider in Colorado, a professional person uses this notice to certify a respondent for short-term treatment for up to three months under C.R.S. 27-65-109. It states, by clear and convincing evidence, that the respondent has a mental health disorder and is a danger to others, a danger to self, or gravely disabled, and whether the disorder is persistent.
The professional person completes and signs the certification with a Colorado license number, attaching a statement of facts from a staff professional who evaluated the respondent. The respondent signs a receipt, or staff record personal delivery and mailing.
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Notice of Short-term Certification
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Up to three months from the date of the notice. The respondent may ask at any time, in writing, for court or jury review of the certification or for outpatient treatment, and has the right to an attorney.
Within 48 hours of the date of certification, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and court holidays. It is filed in the court of the county where the respondent lived or was physically present just before being taken into custody, showing proper delivery and mailing.
Give the respondent a copy anyway, and the person who handed it over completes the acknowledgment of service with the date. If the respondent does not designate a lay person to receive a copy, write 'Respondent Declined' on that line of the certificate of mailing.