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Statutes > New-jersey > Title-30 > Section-30-4 > 30-4-7-130:4-7.1 Provision for health, safety, and welfare of incompetent patients, residents.
1. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this State to make maximum provision for the health, safety and welfare of incompetent patients and residents in State and county institutions for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled, for developmentally disabled residents in community-based alternate living arrangements in the State or in private facilities both in and outside the State, and for inmates under age 18 in State and county penal and correctional institutions, by permitting the chief executive officer of such institution or the regional administrator of a Division of Developmental Disabilities community services region to consent to the utilization of appropriate medical, psychiatric, surgical and dental treatment for such patients, inmates and residents where prescribed by a licensed physician or dentist as provided for herein.
L.1969,c.181,s.1; amended 1997, c.208, s.1.
