§ 3-105. Search for absentee

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   (a) Methods. -- Upon application, the court may direct the guardian to make search for the absentee in any manner the court considers advisable, including one or more of the following methods:

   (1) Inserting in one or more suitable periodicals a notice requesting information from any person having knowledge of the absentee's whereabouts;

   (2) Notifying officers of justice and public welfare agencies in appropriate locations of the absentee's disappearance; or

   (3) Engaging the services of an investigating agency.

(b) Cost. -- The expenses of the search shall be taxed as costs and paid out of the property of the absentee.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 16, § 204; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 2, § 1; 1996, ch. 10, § 1.

                    
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