(405 ILCS 15/2) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 142)
Sec. 2.
The court shall set a date for a hearing on the petition within
5 days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, after the filing of the
petition. The hearing shall be conducted in the manner prescribed in Article
VIII of Chapter III of the "Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Code", as now and hereafter amended. If the jury by its verdict, or the
court if no jury is requested, finds that the named person is not subject
to involuntary admission, he shall be returned to the institution to which
he was sentenced and committed. If the jury by its verdict, or the court
if no jury is requested, finds that
the named person is subject to involuntary admission, the court shall commit
him to the Department of Human Services.
If the named person is deemed no longer subject to involuntary admission
and the time for which he was sentenced has not expired, he shall be returned
by the Department of Human Services to the penal or correctional institution from which he was
committed to finish his
original sentence. If the time has expired, he shall be discharged in
accordance
with Article IX of Chapter III of the "Mental Health
and Developmental Disabilities Code", as now and hereafter amended.
(Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
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