Amendment to Sec. 1045 of Act No. 2711 (Revised Administrative Code)

August 1, 1935

ACT NO. 4207

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION ONE THOUSAND AND FORTY-FIVE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE

SECTION 1. Section one thousand and forty-five of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 1045. Payment of expenses incident to care of insane person. — The expense of sending an insane person to a hospital or other place for the insane, and of his maintenance therein, shall be paid by the guardian from the property of such insane person, if any there be, or by the person whose duty it is to care for such insane person. In all cases where the insane patient, or the person responsible for his support, is unable wholly or in part to pay the expenses of the patient's transportation to the hospital and return, or for his maintenance and care while at the hospital, the same, or such part thereof as may remain unpaid, shall be paid by the Bureau of Health: Provided, That whenever a person is found to be insane and it is determined that he is a danger to himself or to others or that he requires hospitalization, he shall be transferred immediately from his home community to a provincial or other Government Hospital, or to the Insular Psychopathic Hospital, and his traveling expenses shall be paid by the Bureau of Health, any other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding."

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, August 1, 1935.