California Code of Regulations
Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services
Division 1 - Department of Mental Health
Chapter 4.5 - Patients' Rights and Related Procedures for Non-Lanterman-Petris-Short Act Patients in Department of Mental Health Facilities
Article 3 - General Limitations Applicable to Non-LPS Patients
Section 892 - Operating Businesses from Within the Facility

Non-LPS patients shall not operate a business from within the facility. If there is any business activity of a patient or disposition of property owned by a patient that needs to be attended to or to be administered, the patient shall designate a person outside the facility to be responsible for doing so. If necessary, the patient shall execute a power of attorney or other legally authorizing instrument that allows the patient's designee the legal authority to take care of the patient's business or property while the patient is in the facility.

1. New section filed 6-4-2003; operative 7-4-2003 (Register 2003, No. 23).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 4005.1 and 4027, Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Sections 4005.1 and 4027, Welfare and Institutions Code.