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     631.50 Alien inmates or mentally ill persons; requiring 
  notice to United States immigration officers. 

    When a person who is convicted of a felony or is found to 
 be a person who is mentally ill is committed to the Minnesota 
 Correctional Facility-Stillwater, the Minnesota Correctional 
 Facility-St. Cloud, the county jail, or any other state or 
 county institution which is supported, wholly or in part, by 
 public funds, the chief executive officer, sheriff, or other 
 officer in charge of the state or county institution shall at 
 once inquire into the nationality of the person.  If it appears 
 that the person is an alien, the officer shall immediately 
 notify the United States immigration officer in charge of the 
 district in which the correctional facility, jail, or other 
 institution is located, of (1) the date of and the reasons for 
 the alien commitment, (2) the length of time for which 
 committed, (3) the country of which the alien is a citizen, and 
 (4) the date on which and the port at which the alien last 
 entered the United States. 

    HIST: (9950-1) 1927 c 301 s 1; 1976 c 2 s 155; 1979 c 102 s 
 13; 1985 c 265 art 11 s 1; 2002 c 221 s 49 

Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.