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Ch. 405
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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(C) (1) A MENTALLY ILL INDIVIDUAL IN A FACILITY MAY ASSERT
GRIEVANCES WITH RESPECT TO INFRINGEMENT OF THE RIGHTS PROVIDED IN
THIS SUBTITLE.
(2) A FACILITY OR VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL
SHALL ORGANIZE AN IMPARTIAL GRIEVANCE RESOLUTION PROCEDURE THAT
AFFORDS AN INDIVIDUAL THE RIGHT TO ASSERT GRIEVANCES WITH RESPECT
TO INFRINGEMENT OF THE RIGHTS PROVIDED IN THIS SUBTITLE.
(3) AN OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL MAY NOT BE
EXCLUDED FROM A FACILITY OR PROGRAM AS A REPRISAL FOR ASSERTING A
GRIEVANCE OR THE EXERCISE OF RIGHTS PROVIDED IN THIS SUBTITLE.
[10-701] 10-703 10-702.
(a) (1) Subject to any reasonable limitation that a
facility or Veterans' Administration hospital imposes, each
individual in the facility or hospital shall have access, at all
reasonable hours, to writing instruments, stationery, and postage
and may use them to write to anyone.
(2) The correspondence of the individual shall be
sent to the addressee without delay, and except under the
direction of the addressee, without being opened.
(b) Each individual in a facility or in a Veterans'
Administration hospital shall have REASONABLE access[, at all
reasonable hours,] to a telephone. HOWEVER, AN INDIVIDUAL MAY
NOT TELEPHONE [and may telephone] anyone who has [not] given the
facility or hospital written notice of being unwilling to be
telephoned.
(c) (1) If, for medical [or administrative] reasons, AN
INDIVIDUAL'S access to CORRESPONDENCE, writing instruments, or
telephones is limited, the limitation shall be:
(i) Signed by a physician OR PSYCHOLOGIST AND
THE REASONS FOR THE LIMITATION AND THE DATE ON WHICH THE
LIMITATION EXPIRES MADE A PERMANENT PART OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S
RECORD; and
(ii) [Made a permanent part of the individual's
record] REVIEWED EVERY 30 DAYS IF THE LIMITATION REMAINS IN
EFFECT.
(2) If the attending physician OR PSYCHOLOGIST
believes that, because of the condition of an individual, another
individual should be permitted to be present when writing
instruments are used, the permission AND THE REASONS FOR THE
PERMISSION shall be:
(i) Signed by the attending physician OR
PSYCHOLOGIST; [and]
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(II) DATED AS TO WHEN THE PERMISSION EXPIRES;
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