N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 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, 2027

* § 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, 2027