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At the receiving center the person thus taken into custody shall be examined by a qualified person under the supervision of a licensed physician as soon as possible. He or she may then be admitted to the center as a patient or be referred to and transported to another health facility. Every person thus admitted may be kept at the facility for not more than forty-eight hours, or until he or she is found to be no longer incapacitated by alcohol, whichever is sooner, at which time he or she shall be released unless transferred with his or her consent or under appropriate judicial order to another health facility, or unless he or she agrees in writing to remain as a patient a longer period of time. At the time of release the person shall be transported to his or her home or if he or she has no home, reasonable effort shall be made to obtain shelter. (Ord. M-1458 §3, 1973)