In Re Condry

CAVANAUGH, Judge:

This appeal is from an order entered pursuant to section 303(g) of The Mental Health Procedures Act (MHPA), Act of July 9, 1976, P.L. 817, No. 143, as amended, 50 P.S. § 7303(g), upholding the certification of a Mental Health Review Officer who committed appellant to Clarks Summit State Hospital for a period not to exceed twenty days. Because the statutory requirements were not strictly adhered to, we vacate the order in question.

We must first point out that although the commitment order appealed from expired long before the appeal was submitted to us, the issue of the…