65-116e. Commitment to medical care facility; restraint; discharge, when; recommitment.
65-116e
65-116e. Commitment to medical care facility; restraint; discharge,when; recommitment.If any person shall be convicted of any of the violations set forth inparagraphs (a) and (b) of K.S.A. 65-116d, or shall enter a pleaof guilty thereto when charged with such violations, then such person shallbe committed to a medical care facility qualified to treat tuberculosis.Any patient so committed may, by direction of the health officer ortuberculosis consultant of the medical care facility concerned, be placedapart from the others and restrained from leaving the institution. Thetuberculosis consultant of the medical care facility concerned, uponsigning and placing among the permanent records of the medical carefacility a statement to the effect that such person may be dischargedwithout danger to the health or life of others, may discharge the person socommitted at any time during the period of commitment. A copy of suchstatement shall be sent to the state health officer. If necessary,recommitment may be effected in the same manner as original commitment.
History: L. 1957, ch. 467, § 5; L. 1974, ch. 352, §185; L. 1975, ch. 311, § 5; Oct. 1.