A. Charges for care, treatment and services for any person sent by order of a district court to any county hospital or municipally owned hospital serving as a county hospital which is located outside the county of commitment shall be paid: (1) by the patient, if he is able to pay; or (2) by the county from which the patient was committed. B. When a county is required by this section to pay such charges to another county, it shall levy and collect assessments as provided in the Hospital Funding Act. History: 1953 Comp., § 15-48-12.2, enacted by Laws 1966, ch. 6, § 5; 1978 Comp., § 4-48-13, amended and recompiled as § 4-48B-14 by Laws 1981, ch. 83, § 14.
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