2021 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 27A - Mentally Ill Persons
Chapter 08 - Voluntary Hospitalization Of Patients With Mental Illness
Section 27A-8-18.1 - .Substituted informed consent.
27A-8-18.1. Substituted informed consent.
If a person eighteen years of age or older presents for admission to an inpatient psychiatric facility and meets the requirements set forth in subdivisions 27A-8-1(1) to (3), inclusive, and (5), but the facility director or administrator determines that the person is incapable of exercising an informed consent to the admission, then the person may be admitted upon exercise of a substituted informed consent:
(1)By a guardian previously appointed by the circuit court or by a limited guardian previously appointed by the circuit court under an order of limited guardianship that authorizes the limited guardian to make health care decisions on the person's behalf;
(2)By an attorney-in-fact previously named in a written durable power of attorney, pursuant to chapter 59-7, by the person presenting for admission, unless the power of attorney specifically denies or limits the attorney-in-fact's power to so admit;
(3)By a next of kin, pursuant to chapter 34-12C, in accordance with §27A-8-19; or
(4)By a declaration and power of attorney for mental health treatment, executed pursuant to chapter 27A-16, according to its terms.
The person admitted by substituted informed consent is entitled to all rights accorded other voluntary patients by this title, including those provided in §27A-8-10.
Source: SL 2012, ch 149, §13.
