Section 2122. Communicable diseases; disorderly committed patients; commitment to penal institution

1. Any person who has  been  committed
  to  a  hospital or institution pursuant to the provisions of section two
  thousand one hundred twenty of this  chapter,  who  thereafter  wilfully
  violates  the  rules  and  regulations  of the institution or repeatedly
  conducts himself in a disorderly manner may be taken before a magistrate
  by the order of the chief medical officer of the institution.
    2. The chief medical officer of the institution may enter a  complaint
  against  such  person for disorderly conduct and the magistrate, after a
  hearing and upon sufficient evidence of  such  disorderly  conduct,  may
  commit  such  person  for  a  period  not  to  exceed  six months to any
  institution to which persons convicted of disorderly  conduct,  vagrancy
  or similar violations are committed.
    3.  The  authorities  of  the  institution  to  which  such  person is
  committed by the magistrate pursuant to the provisions of  this  section
  shall keep such person separate and apart from the other inmates.