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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 V - RIGHT TO COMMUNICATION; EXERCISE OF OTHER RIGHTS
Section 21-563 - Use of restraints or seclusion; record of use

D.C. Code § 21-563

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Section 21-563 - Use of restraints or seclusion; record of use

A person who is hospitalized in a public or private hospital pursuant to this chapter has the right to be free from seclusion and restraint of any form that is not medically necessary or that is used as a means of coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation by staff, pursuant to the Mental Health Consumers' Rights Protection Act of 2001, effective December 18, 2001 (D.C. Law 14-56; D.C. Official Code § 7-1231.01 et seq.).

D.C. Code § 21-563

Sept. 14, 1965, 79 Stat. 758, Pub. L. 89-183, § 1; Feb. 24, 1984, D.C. Law 5-48, § 11(a)(17), 30 DCR 5778; Apr. 4, 2003, D.C. Law 14-283, § 2(cc), 50 DCR 917.