No regular practicing or licensed physician or surgeon or the owner or operator of any private sanatorium or hospital shall be liable in damages for restraint of any mentally incapacitated person by reason of having in good faith furnished care, treatment or attention to such person, and while such person is under the care of such physician or surgeon or confined in such sanatorium or hospital.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 537.120
Physician not liable for restraint of mentally incapacitated persons
Known as the Agritourism Promotion Act
The act spans §§ 537–537 (141 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Pierce v. Pemiscot Memorial Health Systems (2014)
Most recently applied in Pierce v. Pemiscot Memorial Health Systems (June 2014)
Effective: 28 Aug 1983; (RSMo 1939 § 508, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.