{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-37-3-141","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 37-3-141","heading":"Patients’ right to legal counsel.","body":"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.","path":["TITLE 37 Mental Health","CHAPTER 3 Examination, Treatment, etc., for Mental Illness","Article 6 Rights and Privileges of Patients, Their Representatives, etc., Generally","PART 1 General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.37.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"d12321ca2fa35ae743acc56112016c7fd59d6dbdc7a103e34061b62f6fecc492","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-37-3-140","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-37-3-142"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}