§43A-5-304.

§43A-5-304.
   
   The Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall
   make rules and regulations for reception and retention of voluntary
   patients by state hospitals. The superintendent in charge of any state
   hospital or licensed private hospital for care and treatment of the
   mentally ill may at his discretion receive and retain therein as a
   patient any person eighteen (18) years of age or over, suitable for
   care and treatment, who voluntarily makes written application
   therefor, or any person, suitable for care and treatment at least
   sixteen (16) years but not over eighteen (18) years of age, with the
   consent of such person's parent or guardian. A person thus received at
   any hospital or institution shall not be detained for a period
   exceeding fifteen (15) days from and inclusive of the date of notice
   in writing of his intention or desire to leave such hospital or
   institution. The form for voluntary application shall be printed or
   written on eight and one-half-inch by eleven-inch paper and shall be
   substantially as follows:
   
   Mental Health Law Form 19.
   
   VOLUNTARY APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
   HOSPITAL______AT______
   
   Application is hereby made for my admission to the above named
   institution within the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
   Services as a voluntary patient under the provisions of the Oklahoma
   Mental Health Law.
   
   Dated this ____ day of ____, 19__.
   
   ________Applicant
   
   ________Address
   
   Subscribed and sworn to before me this ____ day of ____ 19__.
   
   ______________
   
   Notary Public
   
   The applicant, or someone for him, must give a bond for the cost of
   care and treatment or pay such cost each month in advance, unless it
   is determined that the applicant is a poor or indigent person as
   provided in this title.