§336-2  Nonresident public charges.  Thedirector of health shall also return all nonresident public charges admitted toor hospitalized at the hospital to the states in which they may have a legalresidence.  For the purpose of facilitating the return of such persons, thedirector may enter into reciprocal agreements with the proper boards,commissions, or officers of other states for the mutual exchange of such publiccharges whose legal residence is in another state, and the director may filewritten permission for the return of any residents of the State now confined ina public institution in another state, corresponding to any institution comingwithin the definition of state hospitals for the insane, or in which they wereunder detention, not having been lawfully discharged therefrom. [L 1927, c 235,§2; RL 1935, §1011; am L 1939, c 203, §3; RL 1945, §3822; RL 1955, §84-2; am LSp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §336-2; gen ch 1985]