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442 LUNATICS AND INSANE, [ART. LIX
1916, ch. 566, sec. 3A.
3A. The County Commissioners or the Supervisors of City Chari-
ties, as the case may be, shall investigate the financial condition of all
persons hereafter to be committed under the provisions of the preceding
Sections of this Article to any of the institutions mentioned therein,
and also the financial condition of their relatives or other persons legally
chargeable with their maintenance and support, in order to deter-
mine, in each case, the ability of any such, person, or of his or her
relatives or other persons legally chargeable with his or her maintenance
and support, to make payment, in whole or in part, for the mainte-
nance and support of such person while an inmate of such institution.
In making such investigation, the County Commissioners and the
Supervisors of City Charities shall require reports or statements to
be made to them by such relatives or other persons upon such forms as
may be prepared by the State Lunacy Commission. If the County
Commissioners or the Supervisors of City Charities, as the case may
be, shall determine that such person shall be required to pay for his
or her maintenance and support while in such institution, or that his
or her relatives or other persons legally chargeable with his or her main-
tenance and support shall be required to pay for the same, then, before
any such person shall be admitted into such institution, they shall make
and issue an order to that effect, and shall specify therein the amount
of such payments so to be made, which shall not exceed the rate of
twenty dollars per month, and the times when the same are to be made,
and shall have the power to require the relatives of any such person or
others legally chargeable with his or her maintenance and support, to
enter into appropriate and binding agreements with respect to the mak-
ing of such payments, and from time to time may modify or change
the terms thereof, as circumstances may justify.
All such'payments shall be made to and collected by the County
Treasurer or the Comptroller of the City of Baltimore, as the cases
may be, who shall account for and pay over the same to the State Treas-
urer on or before the first days of January, April, July and October
in each and every year, and at the same time they shall report to the
State Treasurer the name of each inmate on whose behalf such pay-
ments have been made, and the name of the institution in which he or
she is confined; and the amount of such payments in excess of the sum
of $100, provided by Section 45 of this Article, shall be transferred by
the State Treasurer to the credit of and shall be paid by him to the
institution wherein such person is confined; and nothing contained in
Sections 3, 3A and 3B shall be construed to affect in any way the
obligation imposed by said Section 45 of this Article.
It is the intent of Sections 3, 3A and 3B that a husband may be
liable for the support of a wife while an inmate of any such institution,
a wife for a husband, a father or mother, or both for a son or daughter,
and a son or daughter, or both, for a father or mother.
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