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2011 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 34-B: BEHAVIORAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES
Chapter 5: MENTAL RETARDATION
34-B §5002. Policy


34-B ME Rev Stat § 5002 (2011 through 125th Legis) What's This?

Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

§5002. Policy

1. Services. It is the policy of the State to provide education, training and habilitative services to mentally retarded persons who need those services, except that nothing in this chapter may replace or limit the right of any mentally retarded person to treatment by spiritual means alone, through prayer, if that treatment is requested by the person or by his next of kin or guardian.

[ 1983, c. 459, §7 (NEW) .]

2. Setting. It is the policy of the State that the setting for the services described in subsection 1 shall, consistent with adequate care and treatment:

A. Impose the fewest possible restrictions on the liberty of mentally retarded persons; and [1983, c. 459, §7 (NEW).]

B. Be as close as possible to the patterns and norms of the mainstream of society. [1983, c. 459, §7 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

1983, c. 459, §7 (NEW).

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