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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 632.360 (2026)

Discharge of patient, when

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  632.360.  Discharge of patient, when — procedure. — At the end of any detention period ordered by the court under this chapter, the respondent shall be discharged unless a petition for further detention is filed and heard in the same manner as provided herein.  Successive one-year detention periods, or successive one hundred eighty-day outpatient detention periods, are permissible on the same grounds and pursuant to the same procedures as the initial detention period.  No order of civil detention under this chapter may exceed one year for an inpatient detention period or one hundred eighty days for an outpatient detention period.

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(L. 1980 H.B. 1724, A.L. 1996 S.B. 884 & 841)

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1981–2014 · leading case: State v. Goree, 762 S.W.2d 20 (Mo. 1988).
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State v. Goree, 762 S.W.2d 20 (Mo. 1988). · cites it 4× “Section 632.360 provides for successive one-year detention periods as permissible to the same procedures used in the initial one-year detention period.”
In re F. Z., 612 S.W.2d 904 (Mo. Ct. App. 1981). · cites it 5× “Pursuant to a petition filed with the court below, he was committed on December 30, 1980 to another (successive) one-year detention period under § 632.360, RSMo.1980. Section 632.360, RSMo.”
Pierce v. Pemiscot Mem'l Health Sys., 25 F. Supp. 3d 1198 (E.D. Mo. 2014). “” § 632.360 (emphasis added). 3 *1206 In order for a respondent to be detained for any additional time, the head of the mental health facility or a mental health coordinator must file a petition for additional detention.”
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