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. PUBLIC LAW 92-280-APR. 26, 1972

[86 STAT.

state and the appropriate authorities in the receiving state find that the best interest of the patient would be served thereby, and if the public safety would not be jeopardized thereby, the patient may receive after-care or supervision in the receiving state. "(c) I n supervising, treating, or caring for a patient on after-care pursuant to the terms of this article, a receiving state shall employ the same standards of visitation, examination, care, and treatment that it employs for similar local patients. "ARTICLE V—ESCAPE or DANGEROUS OR POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS PATIENTS

"Whenever a dangerous or potentially dangerous patient escapes from an institution in any part^ state, that state shall promptly notify all appropriate authorities within and without the jurisdiction of the escape in a manner reasonably calculated to facilitate the speedy apprehension of the escapee. Immediately upon the apprehension -and identification of any such dangerous or potentially dangerous patient, he shall be detained in the state where found pending disposition in accordance with law. "ARTICLE VI—TRANSPORTING PATIENTS THROUGH PARTY STATES

"The duly accredited officers of any state party to this compact, upon the establishment of their authority and the identity of the patient, shall be permitted to transport any patient being moved pursuant to this compact through any and all states party to this compact, without interference. "ARTICLE VII — P A Y M E N T OF COSTS

" (a) No person shall be deemed a patient of more than one institution at any given time. Completion of transfer of any patient to an institution in a receiving state shall have the effect of making the person a patient of the institution in the receiving state. " (b) The sending state shall pay all costs of and incidental to the transportation of any patient pursuant to this compact, but any two or more party states may, by making a specific agreement for that purpose, arrange for a different allocation of costs as among themselves. "(c) No provision of this compact shall be construed to alter or affect any internal relationships among the departments, agencies and officers of and in the government of a party state, or between a party state and its subdivisions, as to the payment of costs, or responsibilities therefor. " (d) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to prevent any party state or subdivision thereof from asserting any right against any person, agency or other entity in regard to costs for which such party state or subdivision thereof may be responsible pursuant to any provision of this compact. "(e) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to invalidate any reciprocal agreement between a party state and a non-parity state relating to institutionalization, care or treatment of the mentally ill or mentally deficient, or any statutory authority pursuant to which such agreements may be made. "ARTICLE VIII—GUARDIANS

" (a) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to abridge, diminish, or in any way impair the rights, duties, and responsibilities of any patient's guardian on his own behalf or in respect of any patient for which he may serve, except that where the transfer of any patient to

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