§2012.3. Transportation of indigent patients to hospital; expenses
A. Upon being shown the certificate of the superintendent of the hospital entitling
an indigent tuberculosis patient to admission to a state-owned tuberculosis hospital, the
parish sheriff shall arrange for the transportation of the patient to such hospital.
B. The sheriff may collect from the parish five cents per mile for the distance the
patient is transported from the parish to the hospital designated. Where more than one
patient is transported at a time, the sheriff shall receive five cents per mile for each patient
transported. This five cents per mile shall be made to cover any means of transportation,
sleeping accommodations, and sustenance of patients during their transportation. In addition
to these amounts, the sheriff may collect for his own expenses an additional five cents per
mile for each mile traveled in transporting the patient or patients to the hospital and in
returning. The sheriff shall take the most direct route possible in going to and returning from
the hospital. If any parish fails or refuses to pay the transportation charges to any sheriff
justly entitled to them, the sheriff may proceed by summary writ of mandamus in the district
court, without cost, against the governing authority of the parish to enforce payment.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 34, §1; Acts 2022, No. 271, §4.