2014 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 71 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
71-3609 - Commitment; medical or surgical treatment; consent required.


NE Code § 71-3609 (2014) What's This?

71-3609. Commitment; medical or surgical treatment; consent required.

No person committed under the Tuberculosis Detection and Prevention Act shall be required to submit to medical or surgical treatment without his or her consent or, if incompetent, without the consent of his or her legal guardian, or, if a minor, without the consent of a parent or next of kin.

Source

    Laws 1963, c. 399, § 9, p. 1276;
    Laws 2004, LB 1005, § 92.


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