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Division III - DECEDENTS' ESTATES AND FIDUCIARY RELATIONSTitle 21 - FIDUCIARY RELATIONS AND PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESSChapter 5 - HOSPITALIZATION OF PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
Subchapter II - VOLUNTARY AND NONPROTESTING HOSPITALIZATION
Section 21-514 - Release of patients hospitalized under section 21-513

D.C. Code § 21-514

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Section 21-514 - Release of patients hospitalized under section 21-513

Unless proceedings for hospitalization under court order have been initiated under subchapter IV of this chapter, a hospital, upon the written request of a patient hospitalized pursuant to section 21-513, shall immediately release him.

D.C. Code § 21-514

Sept. 14, 1965, 79 Stat. 753, Pub. L. 89-183, § 1.