When person must be taken to treatment facility or sobering facility
- admission or referral
- when jail custody may be used
- confidentiality of records
Source:
Section 430.399 — When person must be taken to treatment facility or sobering facility; admission or referral; when jail custody may be used; confidentiality of records, https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors430.html.
Notes of Decisions
Under evidence that person was found by police officers face down by curb and was determined by them to be intoxicated and incapacitated, and that officers had been notified by nearby detoxification facility that facility would not accept patients who were non-ambulatory; whether there was an absence of an appropriate treatment facility was question for jury. Tindall v. Multnomah County, 31 Or App 279, 570 P2d 979 (1977)
Police could not, without warrant, in noncriminal, nonemergency situation, open closed container seized from intoxicated person at the time person was booked into holding facility pursuant to this section where purpose of opening containers was to detect evidence of crime rather than to aid person. State v. Lawrence, 58 Or App 423, 648 P2d 1338 (1982), Sup Ct review denied
It was improper under this section for police to conduct full custodial search of intoxicated person at the scene of a stop before transportation to a holding facility or civil hold when they did not have a warrant and purpose was to detect contraband as well as weapons. State v. Keyes, 61 Or App 434, 657 P2d 724 (1983)
Police officer who takes person to police station for detoxification pursuant to this section may not open closed containers for purposes of inventory. State v. Perry, 298 Or 21, 688 P2d 827 (1984)
Legislature did not intend this statute to immunize intoxicated person from criminal prosecution for other criminal conduct. State v. Westlund, 302 Or 225, 729 P2d 541 (1986)
During inventory conducted on civil detoxification hold, paperfold removed from defendant’s front pants pocket that was recognized by officer as type used to package cocaine entitled officer to seize evidence of crime that was in plain view, without warrant, and to use evidence at defendant’s criminal trial. State v. Lippert, 317 Or 397, 856 P2d 634 (1993)
Breach of duty to act regarding incapacitated person creates cause of action for statutory tort, but not for negligence per se. Scovill v. City of Astoria, 324 Or 159, 921 P2d 1312 (1996)
“Public place” means place that public is free to enter at will. State v. Premsingh, 154 Or App 682, 962 P2d 732 (1998)
Authority of treatment facility to conduct inventory search may be implied from decision of politically accountable body to establish facility. State v. Ketelson, 163 Or App 70, 986 P2d 1202 (1999)
Law Review Citations
77 OLR 497 (1998); 52 WLR 383 (2016)
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