Okla. Admin. Code § 310:4-9-1
The following words or terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Appropriate transfer" means a transfer in which the transferring hospital or unit provides the required treatment within its capability which minimizes the risks to the person's life, health and safety and such risks that may relate to others; and, in which the receiving hospital or unit has available space and qualified personnel for the psychiatric or chemical dependency treatment of persons under eighteen (18) years of age, and has agreed to accept transfer of the patient and to provide the indicated treatment.
"Emergency" means the urgent need to admit a person under eighteen (18) years of age for psychiatric or chemical dependency treatment services due to the imminent threat to life, health and/or safety of the person to be admitted and/or others.
"Temporary" means the period of time, but not to exceed seventy-two (72) hours, from when a person under eighteen (18) years of age presents at the hospital for emergency psychiatric or chemical dependency treatment services in a bed ordinarily used for an adult until the earliest time as determined by the physician that the person can be transferred appropriately within the hospital to a bed that is certified for persons under eighteen (18) years of age, or to another hospital where such a bed is available, or the emergency ceases.
Okla. Admin. Code § 310:4-9-1