{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-202b.021","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 202B.021","heading":"Voluntary admission to an ICF/ID -- Discharge of voluntarily admitted","body":"resident -- Release of voluntarily admitted resident upon written request.\n(1) Minors and adult persons with an intellectual disability may be voluntarily admitted\nfor care and treatment in an ICF/ID under the applicable provisions of this section.\n(2) Upon the recommendation or approval of the interdisciplinary team of an ICF/ID, a\nphysician may admit for care and treatment a minor with an intellectual disability\nupon application of a parent or guardian. Upon recommendation or approval of the\ninterdisciplinary team of an ICF/ID, the physician may also admit an individual with\nan intellectual disability who applies voluntarily therefor and who, in the opinion of\nthe physician, poss esses the mental capacity to give informed consent for\nadmission.\n(3) Upon recommendation or approval of the interdisciplinary team of an ICF/ID, the\nphysician shall discharge any voluntarily admitted resident whose care and\ntreatment in the ICF/ID is determined to be no longer necessary or advisable.\n(4) If an adult resident who has been admitted voluntarily requests his or her release in\nwriting, or if the release of a minor resident is requested in writing by the minor's\nparent or guardian, the resident shall be released unless further detained under the\napplicable provisions of this chapter.","path":["KRS Chapter 202B"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=40768","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:52:00Z","sha256":"c102fe744b9328e298f2a0d73ca8caaeb99653132a6922160f06a0b455280dd0","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-202b.020","next":"us-ky/krs-202b.025"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}