3691k. Nonresident applicant for relief.-11. Any person who applies to the township overseer of the poor for relief or who is in need of relief, who does not have legal settlement in the township, may be returned by the overseer to the place of his legal settlement, if such place can be determined; and the record thereof and the bill therefor shall be filed and paid in the manner provided for records and bills for other kinds of relief by the overseer of the poor, and such bills shall be allowed by the board of county commissioners and paid from the fund for the relief of the poor. 36911. Appropriations.-12. There is hereby appropriated to the board of state charities from any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00), annually, for such necessary expenses, including the salary and traveling expenses of an agent, as may be incurred by the board in carrying out the provisions of this act. [Acts 1919, p. 734. Law without the signature of the Governor.] 3691m. Voluntary admission to hospitals for insane.-1. The medical superintendent of any state hospital for the insane, except the Indiana Hospital for Insane Criminals, is hereby authorized and permitted to receive and detain therein under such rules and regulations as may be established by the board of trustees and approved by the Board of State Charities, as a boarder or patient for observation, care and treatment, any person suitable for care and treatment in a hospital for the insane, and who voluntarily makes written application therefor, and whose mental condition is such as to render him competent to make such application: Provided, That the applicant has a legal settlement in a county of the district tributary to the hospital to which application for voluntary admission is made, and that he agrees to abide by the established rules and regulations of the hospital and to give ten days' notice in writing of his desire and intention to withdraw from the hospital. 3691n. Application for voluntary admission.-2. The application for voluntary admission shall be accompanied by a statement of two reputable practicing physicians, residents of the applicant's county, containing a full history of the applicant, the symptoms of his disease and treatment, and a certificate that he has a legal settlement in the proper county, is mentally competent to make the application, and is in need and deserving of special treatment in a hospital for the insane. Upon this information, and together with his own personal observation of the applicant, the medical superintendent may in his judgment and discretion admit the applicant to the hospital, if there is room, where he may receive care and treatment the same as is accorded patients committed by inquest, and the medical superintendent may, also, fur lough or discharge such voluntary patient from the hospital, when in his judgment the mental condition of the voluntary patient warrants it, in like manner as is provided by law for the furlough and discharge of committed patients. 36910. Voluntary payments, charges.-3. Voluntary patients receiving care and treatment in the state hospitals under the provisions of this act may make voluntary payments, or having independent estates shall be subject to a charge for maintenance in an amount not exceeding four dollars ($4.00) per week, which shall be collected as is prescribed in an act entitled "An act to provide for payment of cost of care in benevolent institutions from the property or estates of inmates, in certain cases" and approved March 6, 1917. See section 3432a and 3432b Revision of 1914, Acts 1917, p. 176. 3691p. Free clinic, advice, treatment.-4. The medical superintendent of any hospital for the insane, except the Indiana Hospital for Insane Criminals, with the approval of the board of trustees, and under such rules, regulations and limitations as the latter may adopt, approved by the Board of State Charities, is, also, hereby authorized and permitted to establish and maintain as a part of the hospital service a free clinic for worthy persons, residents of the district, suffering from mental diseases, where examinations, advice and treatment may be given by the hospital medical staff; and to employ and utilize one or more field workers and visiting nurses in the interest of prevention of mental diseases and after-care of patients absent from the hospital. 3699. Filing with clerk. This section and section 3732, providing for fees in insanity inquests for services required by sections 3682 et seq., are not repealed by section 1865, the general law as to fees of justices. Mueller v. Board of Comrs. of Marion County, App. 127 N. E. 15. [Acts 1921, p. 841. In force May 31, 1921.] 3707. Clothing.-15. It shall be the further duty of the county clerk to cause an ample supply of suitable clothing to be sent with every patient admitted to the Indiana hospital for the insane, substantially according to a requisition, which the superintendent shall send with the acceptance. If said clothing be not otherwise furnished, the clerk shall purchase it and payment for the same shall be made out of the county treasury, upon certificate of the clerk and order of the county auditor: Provided, however, That not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) shall be expended for such purpose. This section amends section 3707 Revision of 1914. 3729. Habeas corpus. A petition in habeas corpus proceeding was held insufficient for not alleging facts from which the inference can be drawn that the petitioner was sane at the time of his commitment or at the time the petition for habeas corpus was filed. Edenharter v. Connor, 185 Ind. 643, 114 N. E. 212. 3732. Costs. See note to section 3699. BEC. ARTICLE 19.-COUNTY HOSPITALS. SEC. 3776e1. County hospital, petition, levy of tax, election. 3776f1. Trustees appointed by commissioners. 3776g1. Organization, treasurer, sal- 3776p1. Donations authorized. 3776w1. Indigent tubercular persons. 3776z1. County hospital bonds legalized. 3776b2. Donations-Tuberculosis pital. [Acts 1921, p. 34. In force May 31, 1921.] hos 3766a. County hospital aid in cities of the fourth or fifth class.-1. Whenever an association shall have been organized and incorporated under the laws of the State of Indiana, having its principal office as designated in the articles of association located in or within a mile of the limits of any city of the fourth or fifth class, and where the chief business of said association is to operate a hospital and such association shall desire to construct within such city, or within one (1) mile thereof, a hospital to be operated not for profit, but as a benevolence, and the board of commissioners of any county of the State of Indiana shall find that said county is not provided with sufficient hospital facilities to properly care for the citizens thereof, then and in that case only, the board of commissioners of such county is hereby authorized to give aid in the construction, equipment and maintenance of such hospital buildings in a sum not to exceed the sum already provided by such association, and is hereby authorized to enter into such contract or contracts with such association and the donor or donors of any fund for such purpose for the naming of such hospital, the holding of the title to such hospital building and grounds or the receiving of donations and the terms upon which donations may be accepted for the construction thereof as such board of commissioners may deem most advantageous to the citizens of such county, and such contracts when so entered into shall be binding upon such county, such association and such donor or donors. This section amends section 1, Acts 1919, p. 594. [Acts 1919, p. 594. In force May 15, 1919.] 3766b. Appropriation for hospital.-2. No sum shall be appropriated by any county of the State of Indiana for the erection, construction, equipment or maintenance for any such hospital, unless the construction, maintenance and management thereof shall be in the hands of a board of managers or trustees entirely nonsectarian and nonpolitical and it is further provided that if any county of the State of Indiana shall appropriate any money for the erection, construction, equipment or maintenance for any such hospital, the board of county commissioners of any such county shall have the right to select at least one-half (2) of the members of the board of managers or trustees of any such hospital. 3766c. Admission, rates.-3. Such hospital, when construed [constructed], shall be open to all citizens of such county on reasonable terms and shall be open on reasonable terms to all physicians of such county who desire to place patients therein, and shall be open to all poor and indigent persons of such county on reasonable rates to be paid by the proper officer having charge of the care of such poor and indigent persons. 3766d. Bonds authorized.-4. If any board of county commissioners in any county in the State of Indiana shall provide for aid to such hospital in such county under this act, said county, by its proper officers, is hereby authorized to issue and sell bonds of such county in like manner and under like regulations as the issuing and sale of bonds for the construction of any county building, and the county council of such county is hereby authorized to make appropriations from the county treasury of such county to levy and collect an additional tax upon the taxable property of such county, not in excess of ten cents (10c) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of the taxable property of such county, to pay and satisfy such bonds when due and to provide funds for aid in the construction or maintenance of such hospital as hereinbefore provided, and to do all and singular the things necessary to raise funds necessary to fully provide for the giving of aid by such county as aforesaid. 3776a. [Acts 1913, p. 742. In force April 30, 1913.] County hospital, petition to county board. 3776b. 3776c. 3776d. Trustees, management. Organization of board, officers, by-laws, powers. Vacancies, how filled. 3776q. Veterinary laboratory. 3776r. Charity patients. 3776s. County contract, care of patients. The above sections 3776a to 3776s, inclusive, Revision of 1914 are repealed by section 20, Acts 1917, p. 527, law without the signature of the Governor. See section 3776u Supplement of 1918 and section 3776x1 this supplement. [Acts 1917, p. 679. Law without the signature of the Governor.] 3776t. Establishing hospital, powers of board.-1. The board of county commissioners of any county shall have the power to establish a county hospital for the care and treatment of persons suffering from the disease known as tuberculosis; when the board of county commissioners of any county shall have voted to establish such a hospital, it shall have the following power: To purchase or lease real property therefor, or acquire such real property, and easements therein, by condemnation proceedings in the manner prescribed by law. To erect all necessary buildings, make all necessary improvements and repairs and alter any existing buildings, for the use of said |