When it is represented to the court upon verified petition of any person, any relative, or friend that:
1. A person is an inhabitant or resident of the county or is not a resident of the county or the state but has property within the county;
2. That such person is, by reason of physical disability only, unable to manage his property; and
3. That such person voluntarily consents to the establishment of a conservatorship and the appointment of a conservator, the court must cause notice to be served personally on the person so alleged to be unable to manage his property and on such other persons and in such manner as the court directs, of the time and place of hearing such petition, not less than five (5) days before the time so appointed, and such person, if able to attend, must be produced before the court at the hearing.
Added by Laws 1989, c. 276, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 1989. Amended by Laws 1990, c. 323, § 46, operative July 1, 1990.