abstract:Involuntary commitment or civil commitment is a legal process through which an individual with symptoms of severe mental illness is court-ordered into treatment in a hospital (inpatient) or in the community (outpatient).
Markingson was acutely psychotic when he was placed under an involuntarycommitment order that legally compelled him to obey the treatment recommendations of his psychiatrist, Dr. Stephen Olson.
To get the certificate, a buyer would need to be fingerprinted, take a firearms training course and undergo a national criminal background check and involuntarycommitment or voluntary admission check.
Late Tuesday, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the leader of the Democrat-led Assembly, said the gun-control negotiations also included talks on strengthening Kendra's Law, a 1999 law that requires people court-ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment to comply with that treatment or risk a period of involuntarycommitment.