{"data":{"id":"us-vt/18-v.s.a.-7305","jurisdiction":"us-vt","citation":"18 V.S.A. § 7305","heading":"Powers of Board","body":"The Board may administer oaths, summon witnesses before it in a case under investigation, and discharge by its order, in writing, any person confined as a patient in a hospital whom it finds on investigation to be wrongfully hospitalized or in a condition to warrant discharge. The Board shall discharge patients, not criminals, who have eloped from a hospital and have not been apprehended at the expiration of six months from the time of their elopement. The Board shall not order the discharge of a patient without giving the superintendent of the hospital an opportunity to be heard.","path":["Title 18: Health","Chapter 175: The Board of Mental Health"],"source_url":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/18/175/07305","current_through":"2025 session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:17:03Z","sha256":"8280e1fc47d912ee9430312e910b3655fb2d6c258f99473ec7350de896b98421","source_id":"us-vt","stale":false,"prev":"us-vt/18-v.s.a.-7304","next":"us-vt/18-v.s.a.-7306-7308"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}