6. The Public Curator shall be curator ex officio to every mental patient who is not provided with a tutor or curator and whose incapacity to administer his property is attested by a certificate of the director of professional services or any physician authorized by him where such patient is treated.
Following a written recommendation stating the reasons therefor from a psychiatrist who has examined the patient, the director of professional services or the physician shall send promptly to the Public Curator such certificate, and any other document or information determined by regulation.
1971, c. 81, s. 6; 1974, c. 71, s. 3; 1974, c. 39, s. 67; 1975, c. 64, s. 19.