When the applicant appears in person before the judge of the district court and presents the application and the certificate of the examining doctor of medicine or osteopathic physician, the judge of the district court shall fully question the applicant, and if the judge of the district court is satisfied that the applicant fully understands the nature of the application and the consequences which the law will impose in the event applicant is admitted to the hospital as a patient therein and that the application is voluntarily made, the judge of the district court shall forthwith make an order authorizing the superintendent of the appropriate State Hospital for the mentally ill to admit applicant as a patient therein.

Added by Laws 1963, SB 210, c. 81, § 4, emerg. eff. May 21, 1963; Renumbered from § 554 by Laws 1986, HB 2021, c. 103, § 103, eff. November 1, 1986.