33-6-206 - Request for release.
33-6-206. Request for release.
(a) The following persons may at any time request the service recipient's release by filing a written application with the chief officer:
(1) An adult service recipient;
(2) A service recipient's conservator;
(3) A service recipient's attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care;
(4) The parent, legal custodian, or legal guardian who applied for the admission of a child;
(5) A child who is sixteen (16) years of age or over and who was admitted on the child's own application; or
(6) A caregiver under title 34, chapter 6, part 3, who is acting on behalf of a child.
(b) If a competent service recipient cannot file a written request, a person acting on the service recipient's behalf may file the request with the service recipient's consent.
[Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1; 2002, ch. 730, § 36; 2004, ch. 565, § 5.]