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2016 New York Laws
MHY - Mental Hygiene
Title B - MENTAL HEALTH ACT
Article 9 - (9.01 - 9.63) HOSPITALIZATION OF THE MENTALLY ILL
9.19 - Voluntary and informal admissions; notices.

NY Ment Hygiene L § 9.19 (2016) What's This?
9.19 Voluntary and informal admissions; notices.

The  director  shall  cause  all  patients  admitted  as  voluntary or
  informal patients to be informed once during  each  one  hundred  twenty
  days  of  hospitalization  of  their  status and rights, including their
  right to avail themselves of the facilities of the mental hygiene  legal
  service.  At the time of such periodic notification, the written consent
  of  a  patient  to his continued stay as a voluntary or informal patient
  shall be obtained and a copy  thereof  shall  be  given  to  the  mental
  hygiene legal service.

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