Sec. 4. (a) This section does not apply to a patient in an institution listed in IC 12-24-1-3 if the patient is in a unit that is a Medicaid certified intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
(b) Any interest or income derived from the deposit or investment of funds held in trust for any patient or inmate shall be transferred from such trust fund to a special fund to be known as the "patients' recreation fund" or "inmates' recreation fund"; provided, that in the event a trust fund has been established in any institution, which trust fund is in existence on July 1, 1957, and there is a deficiency in the amount of money that properly belongs in such trust fund, the income derived from any trust fund established under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into the trust fund until the deficiency has been fully paid.
Formerly: Acts 1957, c.242, s.4. As amended by P.L.5-1984, SEC.192; P.L.21-1996, SEC.1; P.L.188-2013, SEC.1; P.L.35-2016, SEC.2.
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