Section 9.11. Patients' records

Except  as  to  informal  patients  and  patients admitted pursuant to
  section 9.39 or 9.40, the director of a hospital shall within five days,
  excluding Sunday and  holidays,  after  the  admission  of  any  patient
  forward to the mental hygiene legal service a record of such patient and
  shall simultaneously forward to the department such information from the
  record as the commissioner by regulation shall require. Such information
  from the record in the department shall be accessible only in the manner
  set forth in section 33.13.
    * NB Effective until July 1, 2012