California Code
CHAPTER 3.9 - Skilled Nursing and Intermediate Care Facility Patient s Bill of Rights
Section 1599.3.

1599.3. Any rights under this chapter of a patient judicially determined to be incompetent, or who is found by his physician to be medically incapable of understanding such information, or who exhibits a communication barrier, shall devolve to such patient’s guardian, conservator, next of kin, sponsoring agency, or representative payer, except when the facility itself is the representative payer.

(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 893.)