20-243. DELIVERY OF CONVICTED PERSON TO PENITENTIARY OR BOARD -- COPY
OF COMMITMENT -- RECEIPT FOR DELIVERY OF PRISONER. When any convicted person
is delivered to the penitentiary or to the custody of the board of correc-
tion, the officer having the prisoner in charge shall deliver to the state
board of correction or such official, as the board may designate:
(1) A certified copy of the commitment received by such officer from the
clerk of the court where the convicted person was tried, and such cer-
tified copy of the commitment shall be evidence of the fact therein con-
tained;
(2) A copy or summary of such medical records of the prisoner as may have
been prepared or received by the agency or institution from whose cus-
tody the prisoner is being delivered, including at least a written re-
port of any suicide attempts, abnormal behavior, seizures or other sig-
nificant facts affecting the prisoner's medical condition which were
observed during his confinement prior to the delivery;
(3) All unused portions of medications prescribed to the prisoner while
in custody and any legitimate prescription medication in the prisoner's
possession when taken into custody;
and shall take from such official a certificate of the delivery of such con-
victed person.
[20-243, added 1947, ch. 53, sec. 43, p. 59; am. 1970, ch. 143, sec.
14, p. 425; am. 1982, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 277.]