Sec. 551.025. DUTY TO REPORT MISSING PATIENT OR CLIENT

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If a person receiving inpatient mental retardation services or court-ordered inpatient mental health services in a department facility leaves the facility without notifying the facility or without the facility's consent, the facility superintendent shall immediately report the person as a missing person to an appropriate law enforcement agency in the area in which the facility is located.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.

                    
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