The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 7701)
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§ 7701. Notice of rights
A hospital, secure residential recovery facility, and psychiatric residential treatment
facility for youth shall provide reasonable means and arrangements, including the
posting of excerpts from relevant statutes, for informing patients of their right
to discharge and other rights and for assisting them in making and presenting requests
for discharge or for application to have the patient’s status changed from involuntary
to voluntary. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 2021, No. 30, § 2; 2023, No. 137 (Adj. Sess.), § 15a, eff. July 1, 2024.)