Order of the Appellate Division affirmed, without costs. Although the time limit for challenges to involuntary commitment to a mental hospital does not begin to run until there has been "actual personal service of notice" on the patient, that rule was established in and is applicable to cases in which the patient seeks to prove that he is not, in fact, mentally ill or in need of commitment (see Matter of Coates...
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