CHAPTER 2. General Provisions and Prohibitions

Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1250.

§§ 3501–3509.5 · 7 sections

• § 3501 The Legislature affirms the fundamental right of competent adults to make decisions about their participation in behavioral research.
• § 3502 (a) Biomedical research shall not be conducted on any prisoner in this state. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), records-based biomedical research using…
• § 3502.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 3502, any physician who provides medical care to prisoners may provide a patient who is a prisoner with a drug or treatment…
• § 3504 Any physical or mental injury of a prisoner resulting from the participation in behavioral research, irrespective of causation of such injury, shall be treated…
• § 3505 Behavioral research shall be limited to studies of the possible causes, effects and processes of incarceration and studies of prisons as institutional…
• § 3508 Behavioral modification techniques shall be used only if such techniques are medically and socially acceptable means by which to modify behavior and if such…
• § 3509.5 Nothing in this title is intended to diminish the authority of any official or agency to adopt and enforce rules pertaining to prisoners, so long as such rules…