As Amended
SEC. 41-21-43. Temporary care and maintenance of feeble-minded poor person.
Boards of supervisors, in their respective counties, shall temporarily provide for the maintenance of any person alleged to be feeble-minded as defined in section 41-19-101, when such person has no means of paying such expense, pending an investigation into the mental status of such alleged feeble-minded poor person before the chancery court of such county. No feeble-minded female shall be maintained at the county poor farm. All care of such feeble-minded females must secure their protection and segregation. It shall be the first duty of boards of supervisors in extending care and protection to feeble-minded persons, to prevent the propagation of the feeble-minded.
SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway's 1921 Supp. Sec. 5728b1; 1930, Sec. 7291; 1942, Sec. 6781; Laws, 1920, ch. 210.