Art 1 - Sec 15-a
Article 1 - BILL OF RIGHTS
Section 15-a - COMMITMENT OF PERSONS OF UNSOUND MIND
No person shall be committed as a person of unsound mind except on competent medical or psychiatric testimony. The
Legislature may enact all laws necessary to provide for the trial, adjudication of insanity and
commitment of persons of unsound mind and to provide for a method of appeal from judgments
rendered in such cases. Such laws may provide for a waiver of trial by jury, in cases where the
person under inquiry has not been charged with the commission of a criminal offense, by the
concurrence of the person under inquiry, or his next of kin, and an attorney ad litem appointed by
a judge of either the County or Probate Court of the county where the trial is being held, and shall
provide for a method of service of notice of such trial upon the person under inquiry and of his right
to demand a trial by jury. (Added Nov. 6, 1956.)