2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 40 Public health and safety :: RS 40:2013.2 Appointment of chaplains; compensation
§2013.2. Appointment of chaplains; compensation
The Department of Health and Hospitals may provide for the services on a contractual basis of a Catholic priest and a minister of the other nonCatholic predominating religious denomination of patients in each of the hospitals for the mentally ill under its administration.
The Catholic priest shall be appointed by and subject to the Bishop or Archbishop in whose diocese or archdiocese the hospital for the mentally ill is located. The minister of the other predominating religious denomination shall be selected and appointed by the secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals.
The Catholic priest and the minister of the predominating nonCatholic denomination shall be paid a monthly fee to be fixed by the secretary.
The secretary may provide for the employment of additional chaplains of any religious denomination on a contractual basis and shall have authority to fix their fees.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 35, §1. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 680, §23.
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