A sworn complaint, alleging that a named person is not seriously mentally impaired and is unjustly deprived of liberty in any hospital in the state, may be filed by any person with the clerk of the district court of the county in which such named person is so confined, or of the county in which such named person has a legal settlement, and thereupon a judge of said court shall appoint a commission of not more than three persons to inquire into the truth of said allegations. One of said commissioners shall be a physician and if additional commissioners are appointed, one of such commissioners shall be a lawyer.
[C73, § 1442; C97, § 2304; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3571; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 229.31]
Referred to in § 229.36
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