In re an Application for the Certification of Coates

This appeal presents the question as to the time within which an alleged mentally ill person, or any relative or friend in his behalf, may obtain a rehearing, including the right to a jury trial, as to the issue of mental illness, as provided in section 76 of the Mental Hygiene Law after court certification of such person to a State hospital in accordance with section 74 of the same law.

The latter section provides, among other things, that an alleged mentally ill person may be certified to and confined in *446an institution upon an order made by certain named judicial officers upon the…