Preservation and Safeguarding of Personal Property of Person Involuntarily Admitted to Evaluation or Treatment Facility

Preservation and Safeguarding of Personal Property of Person Involuntarily Admitted to Evaluation or Treatment Facility. (a) At the time a patient is admitted for evaluation or treatment pursuant to this article or within a reasonable time thereafter, unless a responsible relative is in possession of the patient’s personal property, the person admitting him to the facility shall take reasonable precautions to preserve and safeguard the personal property in the immediate possession of the person. (b) The person admitting the patient shall make a report generally describing the patient’s property so preserved and safeguarded and its disposition and keep it as part of the patient’s record, except that if a responsible relative or guardian or conservator is in possession of the patient’s personal property, the report shall include only the name of the responsible relative and the location of the personal property, whereupon responsibility of the person admitting him for such personal property shall terminate. (c) As used in this section “responsible relative” means the spouse, parent, guardian or conservator, adult child, or adult brother or sister of the person. Source: PL 8-38, § 4.