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Tit. X, Ch. 8. PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITAL. §§ 2365-a3-2365-a6.
9 hereby created shall be the same as now provided by law, except as
10 herein modified.
[39 G. A., ch. 245, § 1J
SEC. 2365-a3. Secretary—records—certification.
1 Said board shall elect one of its members secretary, who shall
2 keep a record, in a book provided for that purpose, of all the proceed-
3 ings of said board and certify a copy thereof forthwith to the clerk
4 of the district court of the county of the legal residence of the person
5 against whom said proceedings were had. Said clerk of the district'
6 court shall file and record said proceedings in the records of his office
7 the same as if said proceedings had been before the commissioners of
8 insanity of said county.
[39 G. A., ch. 245, § 1.]
SEC. 2365-a4. Appeal—procedure—custody of patient.
1 Any person found to be insane under the provisions herein author-
2 ized may appeal from such finding to the district court of the county
3 of the legal residence of such person. Said appeal and proceedings
4 thereon shall be the same as if said finding appealed from had been
5 made by the commissioners of insanity of said county ; except that a
6 copy of the notice of appeal served, or to be served, upon the clerk
7 of said district court shall be served on a member of the board of
8 commissioners of insanity hereby created, and if, at the time the copy
9 of said notice of appeal is served on a member of said board, the
10 patient is still in the actual custody of said board and not en route
11 to a hospital for the insane, the said board hereby created shall cause
12 said patient to be conducted, by its appointee or appointees, to the
13 county of the legal residence of said patient in which said appeal was
14 taken and deliver to the custody of the sheriff of said county, and
15 thereafter the said patient shall be cared for and disposed of as if the
16 proceedings appealed from had been had by the commissioners of
17 insanity of said county.
, [39 G. A., ch. 245, § 1.]
SEC. 2365-a5. Jurisdiction of board after appeal.
1 In the case of an appeal as herein provided, the jurisdiction of
2 the board of commissioners hereby created shall immediately cease,
3 except as herein otherwise specially provided.
[39 G. A., ch. 245, § 1.]
SEC. S365-a6. Accompanying patients from hospital—payment.
1 Whenever the board hereby created shall designate any person,
2 or persons, to accompany any patient from said state psychopathic
3 hospital to any state hospital for the insane, or to the county of the
4 legal residence of the patient, the pay of such person, or persons, for
5 performing such duty shall not exceed three dollars per day for the
6 time thus necessarily employed, and the actual, reasonable and neces-
7 sary expenses incurred in accompanying said patient and in returning
8 home therefrom. Said per diem and expenses shall be itemized and
9 verified and presented and allowed in connection with the bills for
10 maintenance as hereinafter provided; provided, however, that if the
11 party accompanying said patient is a parent or other relative, or an