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     243.15 Female prisoners; pregnant.  

    When it shall be made to appear by the properly verified 
 petition of any woman, who has been sentenced to imprisonment in 
 a penal institution in this state and is in prison thereunder, 
 that she is about to give birth to a child, the commissioner of 
 corrections, if satisfied of the truth of the petition, shall 
 order the transfer of such woman to a public hospital to be 
 designated in the order, there to be detained under such guard 
 and under such rules as the commissioner shall make in the order 
 of transfer until the birth of the child and the recovery of the 
 mother to such an extent that the imprisonment may be resumed 
 without danger of serious impairment of her health.  

    The commissioner of corrections shall adopt such proper 
 rules as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this 
 section.  

    HIST: (10771) 1923 c 165 s 1; 1959 c 263 s 2; 1985 c 248 s 70; 
 1986 c 444 

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