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O.C.G.A. § 37-7-141: Patients’ right to legal counsel.
Where this section sits in the code
- TITLE 37 Mental Health
- CHAPTER 7 Hospitalization and Treatment of Alcoholics, Drug Dependent Individuals, and Drug Abusers
- Article 6 Rights and Privileges of Patients, Their Representatives, and Others Generally
- PART 1 General Provisions
It shall be the responsibility of the department to see that every patient is given the opportunity to secure legal counsel at his own expense to represent him in connection with private, personal, domestic, business, civil, criminal, and all other legal matters in which he may be involved during hospitalization.
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