2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 29-B - (2960 - 2979) ORDERS NOT TO RESUSCITATE FOR RESIDENTS OF MENTAL HYGIENE FACILITIES
2979 - Rights to be publicized.

 
    § 2979. Rights to be publicized. 1. The commissioners of mental health
  and  mental  retardation  and developmental disabilities shall prepare a
  statement summarizing the  rights,  duties,  and  requirements  of  this
  article and shall require that a copy of such statement:
    (a)  be  furnished  by  the  hospital to patients or to persons on the
  surrogate list known to  the  hospital  at  or  prior  to  the  time  of
  admission  to  the  hospital, and at the time of the first decision made
  pursuant to sections twenty-nine hundred sixty-four, twenty-nine hundred
  sixty-five,  twenty-nine  hundred  sixty-six,  or  twenty-nine   hundred
  sixty-seven  of this article or as soon thereafter as practicable and to
  each member of the hospital's staff involved in the provision of medical
  care; and
    (b) is posted in a public place in each hospital.
    2. The statement of rights required by this section may be included in
  any other statement of patient's rights required by other provisions  of
  this chapter.