Volume 65
Public Law 82–99
To amend section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the apprehension and detention of Insane persons in the District of Columbia, and providing for their temporary commitment in the Government Hospital for the Insane, and for other purposes”, approved April 27, 1904, as amended.
Approved August 1, 1951
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the apprehension and detention of Insane persons in the District of Columbia, and providing for their temporary commitment in the Government Hospital for the Insane, and for other purposes”, approved April 27, 1904, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the apprehension and detention of insane persons in the District of Columbia, and providing for their temporary commitment in the Government Hospital for the Insane, and for other purposes”, approved April 27, 1904, as amended (sec.
21–330, D. C. Code, 1940 edition), is hereby amended to read:
“That for the purpose of this Act no certificate as to the sanity or
Validity of certificate.
the insanity of any person shall be valid which has been issued (a) by a physician who has not been regularly licensed to practice medicine in the District of Columbia, unless he be a commissioned surgeon of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, or Public Health Service, or a physician employed by the Veterans’ Administration; or (b) by a physician who is related by blood or by marriage to the person whose mental condition is in question. No certificate alleging the insanity of any person shall be valid, which has been issued by a physician who is financially interested in the hospital or asylum in which the alleged insane person is to be confined; nor, except in the case of physicians employed by the United States or the District of Columbia, shall any such certificate be valid which has been issued by a physician who is professionally or officially connected with such hospital or asylum.”
Approved August 1, 1951.