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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="7-1011" title_number="7" title_name="Developmental Disabilities Law" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Rights of Individuals">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An individual with developmental disability or person who is authorized to act on behalf of the individual may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Contest a record that the licensee keeps on the individual;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Ask for an addition to or other change in the record; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Contest disclosure of the record.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Within 14 days after a licensee receives a request to change a record, the licensee shall acknowledge receipt of the request.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within 14 days after a licensee acknowledges receipt of the request, the licensee shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Make or refuse to make the requested change; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Give the person who requested the change written notice of the licensee’s action.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A notice of refusal shall contain:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Each reason for the refusal; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any procedures that the Deputy Secretary has set for review of the refusal.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An individual with developmental disability or person who is authorized to act on behalf of the individual may ask the Deputy Secretary to review the refusal.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Within 45 days after the request for review, the Deputy Secretary shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Complete the review;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Make a final determination; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Give the individual with developmental disability or person who is authorized to act on behalf of the individual written notice of the final determination.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>If the final determination of the Deputy Secretary is a refusal to change a record, the written notice shall include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each reason for the refusal;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The procedure for inserting in the record a concise statement of the reason that the individual with developmental disability or person who is authorized to act on behalf of the individual disagrees with that refusal; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Information on the right to seek judicial review of the decision of the Deputy Secretary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
