§337-2 Persons subject to the chapter.
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§337-2 Persons subject to the chapter. A person alleged to be of unsound mind found in the State, who has fled from another state, in which at the time of the person's flight:
(1)The person was under detention by law in a hospital, asylum, or other institution for the insane as a person of unsound mind; or
(2)The person had been theretofore determined by legal proceedings to be of unsound mind, the finding being unreversed and in full force and effect, and the control of one's person having been acquired by a court of competent jurisdiction of the state from which the person fled; or
(3)The person was subject to detention in such state, being then the person's legal domicile, personal service of process having been made, based on legal proceedings there pending to have the person declared of unsound mind,
shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which the person fled, be delivered up to be removed thereto. [L 1927, c 214, §3; RL 1935, §1021; RL 1945, §3832; RL 1955, §85-2; HRS §337-2; gen ch 1985]