No person admitted to any facility shall be considered or presumed to be mentally or legally incompetent except those persons who have been determined to be mentally or legally incompetent in separate and independent proceedings of an appropriate district court.
Added by Laws 1953, p. 167, § 64, emerg. eff. June 3, 1953. Amended by Laws 1977, c. 145, § 6, emerg. eff. June 3, 1977; Laws 1978, c. 247, § 5, eff. Oct. 1, 1978; Laws 1986, c. 103, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Renumbered from § 64 of this title by Laws 1986, c. 103, § 103, eff. Nov. 1, 1986.