Washington § 72.23.280 - Nonresidents — Hospitalization.

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§ 72.23.280. Nonresidents — Hospitalization.

Nonresidents of this state conveyed or coming herein while mentally ill shall not be hospitalized in a state hospital, but this prohibition shall not prevent the hospitalization and temporary care in said hospitals of such persons stricken with mental illness while traveling or temporarily sojourning in this state, or sailors attacked with mental illness upon the high seas and first arriving thereafter in some port within this state.
[ 1959 c 28 s 72.23.280. Prior: 1951 c 139 s 67. Formerly RCW 71.02.470.]

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