ERWIN, Judge.
G.S. 122-58.3 sets out the procedure by which a person may be involuntarily committed to a treatment facility. The statute provides that a person who has knowledge of a mentally ill or inebriate person who is imminently dangerous to himself or others may appear before the appropriate officer and execute an affidavit to that effect and petition for issuance of a custody order. "The affidavit shall include the facts on which the affiant's opinion is based...
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