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The purpose of AS 47.30.350 — 47.30.400 is to provide for the constructing and equipping of hospitals and other facilities in this state needed for carrying out a comprehensive mental health program, to accept the benefits of 42 U.S.C. 274, and to authorize the department to take action necessary to accomplish these purposes. Article 2. Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind. Sec. 47.30.410. Persons subject to extradition. A person alleged to be of unsound mind found in this state, who has fled from another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which the person fled, be delivered up to be removed to the state where, at the time of the flight the person (1) was under detention by law in a hospital, asylum, or other institution for the insane as a person of unsound mind; (2) had been determined by legal proceedings to be of unsound mind, the finding being unreversed and in full force and effect, and the control of the person having been acquired by a court of competent jurisdiction of the state from which the person fled; or (3) was subject to detention in that state, which was then the person's legal domicile (personal service of process having been made) based on legal proceedings there pending to have the person declared of unsound mind. Sec. 47.30.420. Extradition proceedings. If the executive authority of a state demands of the executive authority of this state a fugitive under AS 47.30.410 and produces a copy of the commitment decree or other judicial process and proceedings, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the state from which the person so charged has fled, with an affidavit made before a proper officer showing the person to be a fugitive, the executive authority of this state shall have the fugitive apprehended and secured, if found in this state, and have immediate notice of the apprehension given to the executive authority making the demand, or to the agent of that authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and have the fugitive delivered to the agent when the agent appears. If no agent appears within 30 days from the time of the apprehension the fugitive may be discharged. All costs and expenses incurred in the apprehending, securing, maintaining, and transmitting the fugitive to the state making the demand shall be paid by that state. An agent so appointed who receives the fugitive into custody is empowered to transmit the fugitive to the state from which the fugitive fled. The executive authority of this state may, on the application of a person interested, demand the return to this state of a fugitive under AS 47.30.410 — 47.30.460. Sec. 47.30.430. Time to commence proceedings. All proceedings under AS 47.30.410 — 47.30.460 shall be begun within one year after the flight referred to in AS 47.30.410. Sec. 47.30.440. Interpretation and construction. AS 47.30.410 — 47.30.460 shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states that enact it. Sec. 47.30.450. Definitions. In AS 47.30.410 — 47.30.460