2005 Minnesota Statutes

     158.13 Psychopathic Department of University of 
  Minnesota Hospitals.  

    An institution to be known as the Psychopathic Department 
 of the University of Minnesota Hospitals is hereby established.  
 It shall be erected, equipped, maintained, and administered for 
 the care, observation, study, and treatment of defective 
 persons, as defined in existing statutes, and of such other 
 persons as are afflicted or supposed to be afflicted with any 
 other abnormal mental condition.  It may conduct an outpatient 
 service for the diagnosis, care, and treatment of cases less 
 pronounced in type than those thought proper for hospital 
 residence.  It may conduct clinics, investigate conditions, or 
 conduct educational work in regard to mental disease and mental 
 hygiene in any part of the state.  Persons who are addicted to 
 the use of habit-forming drugs shall be proper patients for 
 admission to and treatment in the Psychopathic Department.  

    HIST: (4591) 1923 c 385 s 1; 1945 c 553