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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="7-508" title_number="7" title_name="Developmental Disabilities Law" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="State Residential Centers for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability">
  <level label="a">
    <text>At the direction of the Secretary, an individual who has been admitted under this subtitle shall be released from a State residential center if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The individual is not an individual with an intellectual disability;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The individual is an individual with an intellectual disability but does not need residential services; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>There is an available, less restrictive kind of service that is consistent with the welfare and safety of the individual.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At the direction of the Secretary, any individual who has been admitted under this subtitle may be released conditionally from a State residential center for individuals with an intellectual disability, if, in the judgment of the Secretary, the individual:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Would be cared for properly by the individual or another person; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Would not endanger the individual or the person or property of another.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Secretary may set the conditions for release that the Secretary considers reasonable. The conditions may relate to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The duration of the release;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Treatment during release; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Placement under supervised care in an approved setting.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An individual with an intellectual disability released conditionally is considered to be held by the State residential center from which the individual was released.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Each determination of any release of an individual, whether full or conditional, including a summary of the reasons for the determination, shall be made a permanent part of the individual’s record.</text>
  </level>
</section>
