When any person with mental illness departs without proper authority from an institution in another state and is found in this state, any peace officer in any county in which such patient is found may take and detain the patient without order and shall report such detention to the administrator of the division who shall provide for the return of such patient to the authorities of the state where the unauthorized leave was made. Pending such return such patient may be detained temporarily at one of the institutions of this state governed by the administrator of the division or any other administrator of the state department of human services. Expenses incurred under this section shall be paid in the same manner as is provided for transfers in section 230.8.
[C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 230.31]
83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113
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