Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 79.djvu/811

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PUBLIC LAW 89-183-SEPT. 14, 1965

(f) On a petition for discharge or variation filed pursuant to this section, the court may discharge the feeble-minded person from all supervision, control, and care, or make such variation of the order as to maintenance as the court deems fit under all the circumstances appearing at the hearing of the petition. (g) The Superintendent of the District Training School shall be notified of the time and place of hearing on a petition for discharge or variation filed pursuant to this section, as the court directs, and an order of discharge or variation may not be entered without giving the Superintendent a reasonable opportunity to be heard. The court may notify such other persons, relatives, and friends of the feebleminded person as it deems proper, of the time and place of the hearing on the petition. (h) A person may not be charged with any greater degree of financial responsibility for the support of a feeole-minded person by variation of the order as to maintenance without notice and a reasonable opportunity to be heard. (i) The denial of one petition for discharge or variation is not a bar to another petition on the same or different ground filed within a reasonable time thereafter, the reasonable time to be determined by the court in its discretion, discouraging frequent, repeated, frivolous, ill-founded petitions for discharge or variation of a prior order. §21-1114. Proceeding when child brought before juvenile court appears feeble-minded When a child is brought before the juvenile court of the District of Columbia as a dependent or delinquent child, and it appears to the court, on the testimony of a physician or psychologist or other evidence, that the child is feeble-minded within the meaning of this chapter, the court may adjourn the proceedings and direct a suitable officer of the court or other suitable reputable person to file a petition under this chapter. The court may order that, pending the preparation, filing, and hearing of the petition, the child be detained in a place of safety, or be placed under the guardianship of a suitable person, if that person enters into a recognizance for his appearance. §21-1115. Inquiry under this chapter if person convicted of offense (a) On the conviction by a court of record of competent jurisdiction of a person of an offense, or of a violation of an ordinance which is in whole or in part a violation of a statute of the District of Columbia, the court when satisfied on the testimony of a physician or a psychologist or other evidence that the person is feeble-minded within the meaning of this chapter, may suspend sentence, or suspend the entering of an order sending the person to a jail, prison, or reformatory, or to a training or industrial school, and direct that a petition be filed pursuant to this chapter. (b) When the court directs a petition to be filed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, it may order that, pending the preparation, filing and hearing of the petition, the person be detained in a place of safety, or be placed under the guardianship of a suitable person, if that person enters into a recognizance for his appearance. (c) Where, upon the hearing of a petition filed pursuant to this section or pursuant to a subsequent hearing under this chapter, the person is found not to be feeble-minded, the court shall impose sentence, §21-1116. Transfer to Saint Elizabeths Hospital when person becomes insane When a person becomes insane while confined in the District Training School and the Superintendent of the institution certifies in writing

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