• § 37-4-100 - Retention of Rights and Privileges by Clients Generally; Right to Due Process
  Clients shall retain all rights and privileges granted other persons or citizens. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no person who...
• § 37-4-101 - Clients' Right to Legal Counsel
  It shall be the responsibility of the department to see that every client is given the opportunity to secure legal counsel at his own...
• § 37-4-102 - Right of Clients to Communicate With Persons Outside Facility and to Receive Visitors; Treatment of Client Correspondence; Establishment of Regulations Governing Visitation and Telephone Usage
  (a) Each client in a facility shall have the right to communicate freely and privately with persons outside the facility and to receive visitors...
• § 37-4-103 - Clients' Rights in Regard to Personal Effects; Liability of Facility's Employees and Staff Members for Loss of or Damage to Clients' Personal Effects
  A client's rights to his personal effects shall be respected. The superintendent or regional state hospital administrator may take temporary custody of such effects...
• § 37-4-104 - Clients' Right to Vote
  Each client in a facility who is eligible to vote shall be given his right to vote in primary, special, and general elections and...
• § 37-4-105 - Employment of Clients Outside Facilities
  If a client wishes to be employed outside a facility and if such employment will aid in the client's habilitation, he shall be assisted...
• § 37-4-106 - Education of Children Who are Clients
  The rights of any child receiving habilitation in a facility to an appropriate education at public expense shall not be abridged during hospitalization, and...
• § 37-4-107 - Appointment of Client Representatives and Guardians Ad Litem; Notification Provisions; Duration and Scope of Guardianship Ad Litem
  (a) At the time a client is admitted to any facility under this chapter, that facility shall make diligent efforts to secure the names...
• § 37-4-108 - Right of Clients or Representatives to Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and for Judicial Protection of Rights and Privileges Granted by Chapter
  (a) At any time and without notice, a person detained by a facility or a relative or friend on behalf of such person may...
• § 37-4-109 - Establishment of Patients and Staff Complaint Procedure; Final Decisionmakers; Right of Administrative Appeal; Complaint Procedures As Alternative to Legal Remedies
  The department shall establish procedures whereby complaints of the client or complaints of the staff concerning admission, treatment, or habilitation can be speedily heard....
• § 37-4-110 - Appeal Rights of Clients, Their Representatives, or Attorneys; Payment of Costs of Appeal; Right of Client to Subsequent Appeal and to Legal Counsel on Appeal
  The client, the client's representatives, or the client's attorney may appeal any order of the probate court or administrative law judge rendered in a...

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