9.11 - Patients' records.

* § 9.11 Patients' records.    Except  as  to  informal  patients  and  patients admitted pursuant to  section 9.39 or 9.40, the director of a hospital shall within five days,  excluding Sunday and  holidays,  after  the  admission  of  any  patient  forward to the mental hygiene legal service a record of such patient and  shall simultaneously forward to the department such information from the  record as the commissioner by regulation shall require. Such information  from the record in the department shall be accessible only in the manner  set forth in section 33.13.    * NB Effective until July 1, 2012  * § 9.11 Patients' records.    Except  as  to  informal  patients  and  patients admitted pursuant to  section 9.39, the  director  of  a  hospital  shall  within  five  days,  excluding  Sunday  and  holidays,  after  the  admission  of any patient  forward to the mental hygiene legal service a record of such patient and  shall simultaneously forward to the department such information from the  record as the commissioner by regulation shall require. Such information  from the record in the department shall be accessible only in the manner  set forth in section 33.13.    * NB Effective July 1, 2012