Statute · New York Mental Hygiene Law
N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 9.11 — Patients' records
N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 9.11
- Type
- Statute
- Source
- New York Mental Hygiene Law
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Current through
- Nov 5, 2026 (NY Senate Open Legislation)
* § 9.11 Patients' records.
Citator
N.Y. Mental Hyg. Law § 9.11 — Patients' records is in force in the current edition of the Code, and nothing recorded condemns it.
* § 9.11 Patients' records.
Except as to informal patients and patients admitted pursuant to section 9.39 or 9.40, the director of a hospital shall within five days, excluding Sunday and holidays, after the admission of any patient forward to the mental hygiene legal service a record of such patient and shall simultaneously forward to the department such information from the record as the commissioner by regulation shall require. Such information from the record in the department shall be accessible only in the manner set forth in section 33.13.
* NB Effective until July 1, 2027 * § 9.11 Patients' records.
Except as to informal patients and patients admitted pursuant to section 9.39, the director of a hospital shall within five days, excluding Sunday and holidays, after the admission of any patient forward to the mental hygiene legal service a record of such patient and shall simultaneously forward to the department such information from the record as the commissioner by regulation shall require. Such information from the record in the department shall be accessible only in the manner set forth in section 33.13.
* NB Effective July 1, 2027