Arizona Laws 36-514. Visitation; telephone; correspondence; religious freedom
Every person detained for evaluation or treatment pursuant to this chapter shall have the following additional rights:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-514
- Evaluation: means :
(a) A professional multidisciplinary analysis that may include firsthand observations or remote observations by interactive audiovisual media and that is based on data describing the person's identity, biography and medical, psychological and social conditions carried out by a group of persons consisting of at least the following:
(i) Two licensed physicians who are qualified psychiatrists, if possible, or at least experienced in psychiatric matters, who shall examine and report their findings independently. See Arizona Laws 36-501
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Patient: means any person who is undergoing examination, evaluation or behavioral or mental health treatment under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-501
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Professional: means a physician who is licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17, a psychologist who is licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 19. See Arizona Laws 36-501
1. To be visited by the person’s personal physician or other health care professional, guardian, agent appointed pursuant to chapter 32 of this title, attorney and clergyman or any other person, subject to reasonable limitations as the individual in charge of the agency may direct.
2. To have reasonable access to telephones between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. to make and receive confidential calls. In addition, a person who is confined pursuant to this title is allowed to make two completed local telephone calls within two hours of initial confinement. Long-distance calls are allowed if the patient can pay the agency for them or can properly charge them to another number. The agency may restrict the telephone privileges of a patient if it is notified by the person receiving the calls that the person is being harassed by the calls and wishes them curtailed or halted. Restriction of telephone privileges shall be entered into the patient’s clinical record and the information in the record shall be made available on request to the person and that person’s attorney, guardian or agent appointed pursuant to chapter 32 of this title.
3. To be furnished with reasonable amounts of stationery and postage and to be permitted to correspond by mail without censorship with any person.
4. To enjoy religious freedom and the right to continue the practice of the person’s religion in accordance with its tenets during the detainment, except that this right may not interfere with the operation of the agency.