Formal commitment by lawful authority

AND · 18usc922:status.g4.commitment

The regulation supplies an administrative definition; applicable judicial interpretation and statutory relief still govern. The institution must qualify under the regulation's mental-institution definition, not merely be a treatment location.

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has been committed to a mental institution
Source: docroot/ir/usc/title18.jsonl#title18_sec922; Unicode character offsets [16523:16565] (end exclusive); SHA-256 69d6082896652ca704d8da56c0a01daa1d10b51846206764bf1140610c756b65.

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