CHAPTER 2. RIGHTS OF PATIENTS
IC 12-27-2
Chapter 2. Rights of Patients
IC 12-27-2-1
Professional and appropriate services or training; humane care;religious practice; consultation with legal counsel and privatepractitioners
Sec. 1. Subject to section 2 of this chapter, a patient is entitled toall of the following:
(1) Mental health services or developmental training:
(A) in accordance with standards of professional practice;
(B) appropriate to the patient's needs; and
(C) designed to afford a reasonable opportunity to improvethe patient's condition.
(2) Humane care and protection from harm.
(3) The right to practice the patient's religion.
(4) Contact and consultation with legal counsel and privatepractitioners of the patient's choice at the patient's expense.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.21.
IC 12-27-2-2
Limitations; no known effective treatment or training; services ortraining not likely to produce significant improvement
Sec. 2. (a) The rights set forth in section 1 of this chapter aresubject to the limitation that there may be certain conditions forwhich there is no known effective treatment or developmentaltraining.
(b) A service provider is not required to afford mental healthservices or developmental training where treatment would not belikely to produce a significant improvement.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.21.
IC 12-27-2-3
Exercise of constitutional, statutory, and civil rights; rights deniedor limited by adjudication or finding of mental incompetency;voidable acts not validated
Sec. 3. (a) A patient is entitled to exercise the patient'sconstitutional, statutory, and civil rights except for those rights thathave been denied or limited by an adjudication or finding of mentalincompetency in a guardianship or other civil proceeding.
(b) This section does not validate the otherwise voidable act of anindividual who was:
(1) mentally incompetent at the time of the act; and
(2) not judicially declared to be mentally incompetent.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.21.