2005 Minnesota Statutes

     158.18 Who may be sent to department.  

    Any defective person may be sent to, committed to, or 
 received by, the Psychopathic Department in the same manner and 
 form and for the same causes as such person would be sent to, 
 committed to, or received by, any institution under the 
 commissioner of human services.  It shall be in the discretion 
 of any court acting in accordance with existing statute, or in 
 the discretion of the commissioner of human services, to send 
 any person to the Psychopathic Department instead of some other 
 institution to which such person would be sent under existing 
 statute.  The Psychopathic Department is designated as a place 
 of temporary detention to which, under existing statute, any 
 district judge may send defective persons for temporary 
 detention.  The commissioner of human services shall have 
 authority to transfer any patient or inmate from any institution 
 under the commissioner's control to the Psychopathic Department 
 for observation and treatment or for medical and surgical care 
 and treatment under the staff of the University of Minnesota 
 Hospitals.  

    Persons not defective but who are afflicted or supposed to 
 be afflicted with any abnormal mental condition may be admitted 
 to the Psychopathic Department under such rules as the Board of 
 Regents may adopt.  

    In every case the consent of the superintendent of the 
 University of Minnesota Hospitals shall be obtained before any 
 patient is sent to, transferred to, or received by, the 
 Psychopathic Department. 

    HIST: (4596) 1923 c 385 s 6; 1945 c 553; 1953 c 593 s 2; 1984 
 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986 c 444; 1995 c 189 s 8; 1996 c 277 s 1