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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 81.193: PASS FROM INPATIENT CARE.
Where this section sits in the code
- HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
- TITLE 2. HEALTH
- SUBTITLE D. PREVENTION, CONTROL, AND REPORTS OF DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES
- CHAPTER 81. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS; PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES
- SUBCHAPTER G. COURT ORDERS FOR MANAGEMENT OF PERSONS WITH COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
(a) The head of a facility may permit a person admitted to the facility under order for extended inpatient management of a person with a communicable disease to leave the facility under a pass.
(b) A pass authorizes the person to leave the facility for not more than 72 hours.
(c) The pass may be subject to specified conditions.
(d) A pass may not be authorized without the concurrence of the health authority or department.
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
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