SECTION 401
§ 401. Patients confined for psychiatric evaluation or treatment, whether voluntarily or involuntarily committed, may be restrained or confined.
SECTION 402
§ 402. Restraint or seclusion may only be imposed to ensure the immediate physical safety of the patient or others and must be discontinued at the earliest possible time.
SECTION 403
§ 403. Psychotherapeutic drugs may be used used as a chemical restraint in an emergency which threatens to bring immediate injury to the patient or others. If a chemical restraint is administered during an emergency, such medication shall be only that which is required to treat the emergency condition and shall be provided in ways that are least restrictive of the personal liberty of the patient and used only for a specified and limited period of time.
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