Sec. 593.002. CONSENT REQUIRED

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(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the department or a community center may not provide mental retardation services to a client without the client's legally adequate consent.
(b) The department or community center may provide nonresidential mental retardation services, including a determination of mental retardation, to a client without the client's legally adequate consent if the department or community center has made all reasonable efforts to obtain consent.
(c) The board by rule shall prescribe the efforts to obtain consent that are reasonable and the documentation for those efforts.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 60, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.

                    
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