Preservation and Safeguarding of Personal Property of Person

Taken into Custody.

(a)At the time a patient is taken into custody for evaluation, or within a reasonable time thereafter, unless a responsible relative or the guardian or conservator of the person is in possession of the patient's personal property, the person taking him into custody shall take reasonable precautions to preserve and safeguard the personal property in the immediate possession of the person. The person taking him into custody shall then furnish to the court a report generally describing the patient's personal property so preserved and COL622016 CH. 82 MENTALLY ILL PERSONS safeguarded and its disposition, except that if a responsible relative or guardian or conservator is in possession of the patient's personal property, the report shall include only the name of the responsible relative or guardian or conservator and the location of the personal property, whereupon responsibility of the person taking him into custody for such personal property shall terminate.

(b)As used in this section responsible relative means the spouse, parent, adult child, or adult brother or sister of the person, except that it does not include the person who applied for the examination under this Chapter.