Section 19-506 - Discharges. - Maryland Statutes

§ 19-506. Discharges.
 

(a)  Discharge required.- If the medical staff of a center determines that an individual cannot receive any further benefit at the center, the individual shall be discharged on the written order of a medical staff member. 

(b)  Failure to leave.- If, after a competent authority directs a discharged individual to leave the center, the individual fails to do so, the administrative head of the center may take any legal step needed to remove the individual from the center, under an adequate plan for treatment and care. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 43, § 599; 1982, ch. 21, § 2.]