ARTICLE III. ASSISTANT PHYSICIANS. IV. TREASURER. V. GENERAL PROVISIONS. VI. EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF INSANE PER SONS. ARTICLE I. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE INSANE ASYLUM. SECTION 2136. Under control of Board of Directors. 2138. Moneys for support of Asylum, how drawn. SEC. 2136. The Insane Asylum, located at Stockton, is under the management and control of a Board of Directors, consisting of five persons, appointed and holding their offices as provided in Title I, Part III of this Code. Under control of Directors. SEC. 2137. The powers and duties of the Board of Powers and Directors of the Insane Asylum are as follows: 1. To make by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, for their own government and the government of the Asylum; 2. To hold stated meetings at the Asylum for the transaction of business on the first Monday in each month; 3. To keep a record of their proceedings, open at all times to the inspection of any citizen; 4. To elect a Medical Superintendent, three Assistant Physicians, and a Treasurer; 5. To provide on the Asylum grounds suitable apartments, furniture, provisions, and lights for the medical. Superintendent, assistant physicians, and their families; 6. To make diligent inquiry into the departments of labor and expense, the condition of the Asylum and its property; 7. To furnish County and Probate Judges with blank forms of the bond required by section twenty-two hundred and twenty-three; duties of Board. Moneys for support of Asylum, how drawn. Board must contract for supplies. Compensation of Directors. 8. To report to the Governor a statement of the receipts and expenditures, the condition of the Asylum, the number of patients under treatment, and of such other matters touching the duties of the Board as is advisable. SEC. 2138. If the Board approve the estimates made under the provisions of section twenty-one hundred and fifty-three, it must notify the Controller of State, who must draw his warrant for the amount estimated in three equal sums out of any moneys in the State Treasury appropriated for the use of the Asylum. SEC. 2139. Upon the receipt of each report provided for in subdivision five of section two thousand one hundred and fifty-two the Board of Directors must advertise for contracts for furnishing the supplies therein specified for three successive weeks in one newspaper in each of the Cities of Stockton, Sacramento, and San Francisco. The contract must be awarded to the lowest bidder, upon his giving satisfactory security for the faithful performance of the same. SEC. 2140. The compensation of the Directors is ten dollars each for every day spent in attending or traveling to the meetings of the Board; not, however, to exceed one hundred and thirty dollars annually to each member. Qualifications of. Term of office. ARTICLE II. MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT. SECTION 2150. Qualifications of. 2151. Term of office. 2152. General powers and duties. 2153. Must estimate expenses and report to Directors. 2155. Bond. SEC. 2150. The Medical Superintendent must be a graduate in medicine, and must have practiced his profession five years after the date of his diploma. SEC. 2151. His term of office is four years from and after his election. SEC. 2152. He is the chief executive officer of the General Asylum, with powers and duties as follows: 1. To control the patients, prescribe the treatment, and prescribe and enforce the sanitary regulations of the Asylum; 2. With the consent of the Board of Directors, to fix the number and compensation of, and appoint, control, and remove the attendants and assistants; 3. To prescribe and enforce the performance of the duties of the attendants and assistants; 4. To prescribe and enforce the performance of the duties of the Assistant Physicians; 5. To ascertain and report to the Board of Directors the amount, character, and quality of provisions, fuel, and clothing required for the six months ending on the first of May and November in each year; 6. With the consent of the Board of Directors to make any expenditure necessary in the performance of his duties. except for provisions, fuel, and clothing; 7. To receive and pay to the Treasurer all moneys found upon insane persons; 8. To keep a daily record of his official acts in the mode prescribed by the by-laws; 9. To make up his annual accounts to the first of July in each year, and as soon thereafter as possible to report a statement thereof, and of the general condition of the Asylum, to the Board of Directors. powers and duties. estimate expenses and report SEC. 2153. He must estimate, quarterly in advance, Must the probable expenses of the asylum, and submit such estimate to the Directors, at their stated meetings, for to their consideration and approval. Directors. SEC. 2154. The annual salary of the Medical Superin- Salary. tendent is thirty-five hundred dollars. SEC. 2155. He must execute an official bond in the Bond. sum of twenty thousand dollars. Term of office. General duties. Senior Assistant, as Medical ARTICLE III. ASSISTANT PHYSICIANS. SECTION 2165. Qualifications. 2166. Term of office. 2167. General duties. 2168. Senior Assistant-when to act as Medical Superinten dent. 2169. Salaries. SEC. 2165. The Assistant Physicians must be graduates in medicine. SEC. 2166. Their term of office is four years from and after their appointment. SEC. 2167. They must perform the duties and exercise the powers prescribed by the Medical Superintendent or the by-laws. SEC. 2168. During the absence or disability of the when to act Medical Superintendent the Senior Assistant longest in commission must perform his duties and exercise his powers. Superin tendent. Salaries. SEC. 2169. The annual salary of each Assistant Physician is twenty-five hundred dollars. ARTICLE IV. Member of eligible. Tenure of office. TREASURER. SECTION 2179. Member of Board not eligible. 2180. Tenure of office. 2181. General duties of. 2182. Salary. 2183. Bond. SEC. 2179. No member of the Board of Directors is eligible to the office of Treasurer. SEC. 2180. The Treasurer holds his office at the pleasure of the Board of Directors. SEC. 2181. It is the duty of the Treasurer: 1. To act as Secretary of the Board of Directors; 2. To keep the accounts of the Board and of the receipts and expenditures; 3. To report on the first Monday in each month to the State Board of Examiners a statement under oath of the expenses of the preceding month; 4. To perform such other duties as may be required of him by the by-laws or Board of Directors. General duties of. SEC. 2182. The annual salary of the Treasurer is six Salary. hundred dollars. SEC. 2183. He must execute an official bond in the Bond. sum of twenty thousand dollars. ARTICLE V. GENERAL PROVISIONS. SECTION 2193. Salaries, when and out of what Fund payable. 2194. Approval and filing of official bonds. 2195. Restrictions upon residence of physicians. 2196. Restrictions upon business of physicians. 2197. Discharge of patients on recovery. 2198. Insane convicts; reception and return of. 2199. Restrictions upon admission of non-residents. 2200. Disposition of moneys unexpended at discharge or death of patient. when and Fund out of what payable. SEC. 2193. The salaries and compensation fixed by Salaries,, the provisions of this Chapter must be paid, the salaries quarterly and compensation monthly, out of the moneys appropriated for the support of the Asylum. and filing of official bonds. SEC. 2194. The official bonds required by the provis- Approval ions of this Chapter must be approved by the Board of Directors, and filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State. SEC. 2195. The Medical Superintendent and each Assistant Physician must reside on the Asylum grounds. SEC. 2196. The officers mentioned in the preceding Restricresidence of tions upon physicians. |