222.77  Patients on leave.

The cost of support of patients placed on convalescent leave or removed as a habilitation measure from a hospital-school, or a special unit, except when living in the home of a person legally bound for the support of the patient, shall be paid by the county of legal settlement. If the patient has no county of legal settlement, the cost shall be paid from the support fund of the hospital-school or special unit and charged on abstract in the same manner as other state inpatients until the patient becomes self-supporting or qualifies for support under other statutes.

Section History: Early form

  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, S81, § 222.77; 81 Acts, ch 117, § 1027]

Section History: Recent form

  83 Acts, ch 123, § 83, 209

Internal References

  Referred to in § 222.78, 331.381


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