§336-2  Nonresident public charges.  The
director of health shall also return all nonresident public charges admitted to
or hospitalized at the hospital to the states in which they may have a legal
residence.  For the purpose of facilitating the return of such persons, the
director may enter into reciprocal agreements with the proper boards,
commissions, or officers of other states for the mutual exchange of such public
charges whose legal residence is in another state, and the director may file
written permission for the return of any residents of the State now confined in
a public institution in another state, corresponding to any institution coming
within the definition of state hospitals for the insane, or in which they were
under 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 L
Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §336-2; gen ch 1985]