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2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 15 — Criminal procedure
RS 15:860 — Right of inmate to decline medical treatment
LA Rev Stat § 15:860 What's This?
§860. Right of inmate to decline medical treatment
Except as to compliance with the sanitary laws and all reasonable regulations relating to contagious and infectious diseases, any sane patient or sane inmate of the Louisiana State Penitentiary may decline any medical care or treatment offered or provided by the institution and provide other care for himself at his own expense.
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