The Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services may employ persons to assist in collecting the amount due the state for the care and treatment of consumers, and may employ counsel to institute such actions or proceedings as the Commissioner may deem proper to enforce the claim of the state for the care and treatment of a consumer against the consumer.
Added by Laws 1953, p. 173, § 116, emerg. eff. June 3, 1953. Amended by Laws 1986, c. 103, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Renumbered from § 116 of this title by Laws 1986, c. 103, § 103, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Amended by Laws 2005, c. 150, § 9, emerg. eff. May 9, 2005; Laws 2010, c. 287, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 2010.