California Health and Safety Code

§ 1261

HSC § 1261 Effective Jan 1, 2000Div. 2 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)A health facility shall allow a patient’s domestic partner, the children of the patient’s domestic partner, and the domestic partner of the patient’s parent or child to visit, unless one of the following is met:

(1)No visitors are allowed.

(2)The facility reasonably determines that the presence of a particular visitor would endanger the health or safety of a patient, member of the health facility staff, or other visitor to the health facility, or would significantly disrupt the operations of a facility.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 588, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2000.