Section 27A-15-48 - Right to refuse psychotropic medication--Treatment administered despiteminor's refusal--Parental consent--Judicial determination. - South Dakota Statutes

27A-15-48. Right to refuse psychotropic medication--Treatment administered despite minor's refusal--Parental consent--Judicial determination. A minor sixteen years of age or older, whether involuntarily committed or admitted by a parent, has the right to refuse psychotropic medication. If a psychotropic medication is prescribed by the minor's treating psychiatrist upon his written determination that the treatment is the least restrictive treatment alternative medically necessary for improvement of the minor's severe mental illness, which opinion is concurred in by a consulting physician, the treatment may be administered with the informed consent of the minor's parent, guardian, or other legal custodian pending the judicial determination required in § 27A-15-50. Documentation of the minor's refusal, and the treating psychiatrist's written determination and the consulting physician's concurrence shall be made part of the minor's medical records.

Source: SL 1991, ch 220, § 338.