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2018 District of Columbia Code
Title 21 - Fiduciary Relations and Persons with Mental Illness. [Enacted title]
Chapter 5 - Hospitalization of Persons with Mental Illness.
Subchapter II - Voluntary and Nonprotesting Hospitalization.
§ 21–514. Release of patients hospitalized under section 21-513.
Universal Citation: DC Code § 21–514 (2018)
Unless proceedings for hospitalization under court order have been initiated under subchapter IV of this chapter, a hospital, upon the written request of a patient hospitalized pursuant to section 21-513 , shall immediately release him.
(Sept. 14, 1965, 79 Stat. 753, Pub. L. 89-183, § 1.)
Prior Codifications1981 Ed., § 21-514.
1973 Ed., § 21-514.
Section ReferencesThis section is referenced in § 21-513.
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