As Amended
SEC. 19-5-43. Temporary care and maintenance of the pauper insane.
The boards of supervisors in their respective counties shall temporarily provide for the care and maintenance of any person alleged to be insane when such person has no means of paying such expense, pending an investigation into the mental status of such alleged insane pauper before the chancery clerk of such county, and provide for the care and maintenance of such persons by the sheriff of their respective counties after being adjudged insane by the properly constituted authority, when there is no room in one of the state mental institutions for such insane person. The boards shall cause all reasonable and proper allowance for such care and maintenance to be paid out of the county treasury.
SOURCES: Codes, 1906, Sec. 308; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 3681; 1930, Sec. 238; 1942, Sec. 2916.