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229.3 DISCHARGE OF VOLUNTARY PATIENTS.
Any voluntary patient who has recovered, or whose hospitalization
the chief medical officer of the hospital determines is no longer
advisable, shall be discharged. Any voluntary patient may be
discharged if to do so would in the judgment of the chief medical
officer contribute to the most effective use of the hospital in the
care and treatment of that patient and of other persons with mental
illness. Section History: Early Form
[C77, 79, 81, § 229.3] Section History: Recent Form
96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113
Referred to in § 222.55, 226.19
