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Session Laws, 1958 (Special Session), House and Senate Journals
Volume 639, Page 23   View pdf image (33K)
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THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR                       23

powered to adopt and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations
covering the details of enforcing the powers and procedures pro-
vided for in this Section and Section 5 hereinabove.

13. (a) If any insane or lunatic person mentioned in Sections 7 to
12, inclusive, shall be possessed of real or personal property, the
annual profit or rent of which shall be adequate to his reasonable
support in any hospital or asylum for the reception of insane or
lunatic persons, the court or judge shall appoint a trustee for the
estate of said lunatic or insane person and shall require the said
trustee to give bond to the State of Maryland in such penalty and
with such security as the court or judge shall approve, with con-
dition that he will cause the said lunatic or insane person to be
confined and supported in some hospital or insane asylum until such
person shall have recovered his reason, and that he will faithfully
administer and fully account for all such estate, income and effects
of said lunatic or insane person as shall come to his possession or
be under his care or direction.

(b) The provisions all and singular of Sections 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 44
of this Article, with regard to the public maintenance of lunatic or
insane persons and all other provisions of this Article with regard
to the public maintenance of such persons, as such sections and such
provisions of such Article now stand or as they may be hereafter
amended, shall be applicable to those persons mentioned in Sec-
tions 8 to 12, inclusive, who shall not be possessed of real or personal
property, the annual profit or rent of which shall be adequate to
their reasonable support in a hospital or asylum for the reception
of insane or lunatic persons, except that in case of persons who shall
remain in such hospital or asylum less than one month, the county
or city from which such person shall have been committed shall pay
the actual cost of the maintenance of such persons [, but not ex-
ceeding two dollars per diem],

44. For each patient in any State [hospital for the insane, and in
Rosewood State Training School] institution under the jurisdiction
of the Department of Mental Hygiene
from Baltimore City or from
any one of the counties of the State, the said city or county, as the
case may be, shall as herein specified pay [into the State Treasury]
to the Department of Mental Hygiene [the annual sum] at the rate of
One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00) annually for the
board, care and treatment of such patient, and the remaining amount
required for the board, care and treatment of such insane shall be
paid from the Treasury of the State. The expense for the care,
board and treatment of all patients in the State [hospitals for the
insane and in Rosewood State Training School] institution under the
jurisdiction of the Department of Mental Hygiene
shall be a charge
upon each county sending such patient or patients to [the State
hospitals for the insane and in Rosewood State Training School]
such institutions, as hereinafter provided. The Department of Mental
Hygiene shall credit the account of each county, for any patient,
with any amounts actually collected and received by the Department
from or for that patient, whether received from himself, his relatives,
others legally chargeable with his maintenance and support or others;
the credit allowed to the county in any one year, for any one patient,
not to exceed the amount paid by the county for that patient's mainte-
nance and support.
It shall be the duty of the Department of Mental

 

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