The Vermont Statutes Online
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Title 18 : Health
Chapter 206 : Care for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Subchapter 003 : JUDICIAL PROCEEDING; PERSONS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY WHO PRESENT A DANGER OF HARM TO OTHERS
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 8844)-
§ 8844. Legal competence
No determination that a person is in need of custody, care, and habilitation or in need of continued custody, care, and habilitation and no order authorizing commitment shall lead to a presumption of legal incompetence. (Added 1987, No. 248 (Adj. Sess.), § 9; amended 2023, No. 137 (Adj. Sess.), § 26, eff. July 1, 2024.)
