229.31 - COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.
229.31 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.
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. Section History: Early Form
[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