§ 7701

Notice of rights A hospital, secure residential recovery facility, and psychiatric residential treatment facility for youth shall provide reasonable means and arrangements, including the posting of excerpts from relevant statutes, for informing patients of their right to discharge and other rights and for assisting them in making and presenting requests for discharge or for application to have the patient’s status changed from involuntary to voluntary. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 2021, No. 30, § 2; 2023, No. 137 (Adj. Sess.), § 15a, eff. July 1, 2024.)