1998 Minnesota Code
Chapters 245 - 267 Public Welfare and Related Activities
Chapter 256 Human Services
Section 256.06 Guardianship of inmates.

256.06 Guardianship of inmates.

The commissioner of human services shall be deemed the guardian of the persons of the inmates of any state hospital or asylum for the insane or of any school for feebleminded and colony for persons having epilepsy for the purpose of consenting to any surgical operation necessary to save the life, health, eyesight, hearing, or a limb of any inmate committed thereto.

HIST: (4422) 1907 c 145 s 2; 1983 c 10 s 1; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58

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