546.540. Confinement of insane persons, costs paid, how.
Confinement of insane persons, costs paid, how.
546.540. The sheriff or other officer having the custody ofpersons committed to the director of the department of mentalhealth as provided in section 552.040, RSMo, shall, if he deemsit necessary to their safe custody, confine them to the countyjail until they shall be removed to a state hospital. If allthings needful be not otherwise supplied, he shall furnish them,and, in such cases, the supplies for the indigent shall be paidfor by the proper county commissions out of the countytreasuries; and supplies for others than the indigent shall berepaid out of their estates, and may be recovered by suit in thename of such officer.
(RSMo 1939 § 9351, A.L. 1965 p. 331)Prior revisions: 1929 § 8658; 1919 § 12301; 1909 § 1433