Kentucky Revised Statutes Title LI. Unified Juvenile Code § 645.030.Voluntary admission to hospital; transport from originating hospital to receiving hospital or psychiatric facility

(a) Upon written application of a parent or other person exercising custodial control or supervision, if the child is under sixteen (16) years of age. At or before the child's admission, the child, parent, or other person shall be informed of his or her rights under KRS 645.230 and 645.240. Any child admitted under this subsection who reaches his or her sixteenth birthday while hospitalized shall consent to his or her continued hospitalization or shall request his or her release. If the child fails to choose, the hospital shall advise the court-designated worker and the parent or other person exercising custodial control or supervision;

(b) Upon written application by a child who is at least sixteen (16) years of age and one (1) of his or her parents or a person exercising custodial control or supervision. At or before admission, the child shall be informed of his or her right to give notice of his or her intent to leave under KRS 645.190 and his or her right to consult an attorney or his or her court-designated worker under KRS 645.130. The child may consult an attorney prior to his or her admission; or

(c) Upon written application by a child who is at least sixteen (16) years of age. At or before admission, the child shall be informed of his or her rights under KRS 645.190 and his or her parents' rights under KRS 645.220, 645.230 and 645.240.

(2)(a) A child who presents or is voluntarily admitted to a hospital with symptoms of mental illness may be transported from an originating hospital to a receiving hospital or psychiatric facility upon the: