§43A-5-307.

§43A-5-307.
   
   When the applicant appears in person before the judge of the district
   court and presents the application and the certificate of the
   examining doctor of medicine or osteopathic physician, the judge of
   the district court shall fully question the applicant, and if the
   judge of the district court is satisfied that the applicant fully
   understands the nature of the application and the consequences which
   the law will impose in the event applicant is admitted to the hospital
   as a patient therein and that the application is voluntarily made, the
   judge of the district court shall forthwith make an order authorizing
   the superintendent of the appropriate State Hospital for the mentally
   ill to admit applicant as a patient therein.