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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 private
practitioners
Sec. 1. Subject to section 2 of this chapter, a patient is entitled to
all 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 improve
the 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 private
practitioners 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 or
training not likely to produce significant improvement
Sec. 2. (a) The rights set forth in section 1 of this chapter are
subject to the limitation that there may be certain conditions for
which there is no known effective treatment or developmental
training.
(b) A service provider is not required to afford mental health
services or developmental training where treatment would not be
likely 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 denied
or limited by adjudication or finding of mental incompetency;
voidable acts not validated
Sec. 3. (a) A patient is entitled to exercise the patient's
constitutional, statutory, and civil rights except for those rights that
have been denied or limited by an adjudication or finding of mental
incompetency in a guardianship or other civil proceeding.
(b) This section does not validate the otherwise voidable act of an
individual 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.
