TITLE 40.1
Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals
CHAPTER 40.1-26
Rights for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
SECTION 40.1-26-7
§ 40.1-26-7 Deprivation of rights
Penalty.
Any person who willfully withholds from, or denies to, any participant in an
agency any of his or her rights as granted in this chapter or who retaliates
against a participant who exercises the right to register an alleged violation
of rights or on whose behalf a grievance is filed, shall on conviction thereof
be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisoned not exceeding
six (6) months.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1990, ch. 414, § 1; P.L. 1994, ch. 83, § 2; P.L. 1997, ch. 326,
§ 143.)