§98.2. Immunity of psychiatric hospital and director or administrator

            Any detentions, confinements, commitments, or discharges made of a patient who has a mental illness in accordance with this Chapter to any state or private psychiatric hospital by the director or administrator thereof, acting in good faith, reasonably and without negligence, are declared to be administrative acts of the director, administrator, or the hospital, and the director, administrator, and the hospital are granted immunity from liability for damages to any patient so detained, confined, or committed for false imprisonment or otherwise; provided, however, that the director, administrator, or the hospital shall not thereby be exempt from liability for negligence in the care or treatment of such patient.

            Added by Acts 1966, No. 482, §2; Acts 2017, No. 369, §2; Acts 2018, No. 206, §1.