# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 21 — Behavioral Health Regulations

### Chapter 09 — Patients' Rights to Visitors

#### Regulation .04 Visitation Areas.

*COMAR 10.21.09.04*

A. Specific areas shall be designated as visitor areas and may be subject to supervision by facility staff.

B. Patients shall have the right to converse in private subject to the restrictions of Health-General Article, §10-703(c), Annotated Code of Maryland.

C. Visitors may not be allowed on the patient units without staff permission or supervision, or both.

D. Visiting may not be allowed in seclusion rooms.