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Statutes > Alabama > Title22 > Title2 > 22-52-51Section 22-52-51
Observation and diagnosis; admission for care; preference in admission.
The superintendent may receive for observation and diagnosis any resident of Alabama for whom application is made by his father, mother or guardian or, when neither parent nor the guardian is available and capable, by an adult next of kin, supplying such data as the superintendent may require; and, if found to be a mentally retarded individual, such individual may be admitted to the institution for care, treatment, training and rehabilitation for such period and under such conditions as may be authorized by law. Should the institution at any time not be able to accommodate all who should be admitted thereto under this section, preference in admission shall be given to children and women of childbearing age.
(Acts 1969, No. 774, p. 1384, §2.)