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This state ratifies and adopts by reference “The Interstate Compact on Mental Health” consisting of 14 articles approved on September 30, 1955, by the Northeast State Governments Conference on Mental Health. The department is designated as compact administrator with full power to carry out the purpose of the compact and to adopt all necessary regulations to implement the compact. Sec. 47.30.885. Rights outside state. Nothing in AS 47.30.660 — 47.30.915 alters or impairs the application or availability to a patient, while hospitalized in another state under contractual arrangements entered in accordance with AS 47.30.660 — 47.30.915, of the rights, remedies, or safeguards provided by the laws of this state. Sec. 47.30.890. Provision for personal needs upon discharge. The department shall ensure that (1) a patient is not discharged from a treatment facility without suitable clothing; and (2) a discharged indigent patient is furnished (A) suitable transportation to the patient's permanent residence in this state or to another suitable place at the discretion of the department; and (B) a reasonable amount of money to meet the patient's immediate needs. Sec. 47.30.895. Disposition of unclaimed property; recovery of personal property. (a) Those unclaimed articles of personal property that are covered by AS 34.45.110 — 34.45.260 and the unclaimed money in the custody of a treatment facility that belong to a patient who dies before discharge, or to a patient who leaves the hospital without authority, if unclaimed by the patient or the legal heirs or representatives of the patient within one year after the patient's death or departure, shall be disposed of in accordance with AS 34.45.110 — 34.45.780, and the other articles of the patient's personal property shall be disposed of in the manner prescribed by the department and the proceeds deposited in the general fund. (b) If a mentally ill individual has died in a foreign facility and the department desires to recover the patient's personal property under this section, the commissioner or the commissioner's designated representative may secure the property and for that purpose only is designated the decedent's administrator. Property so recovered shall be disposed of as provided by law. Sec. 47.30.900. Diligent inquiry; personal property delivery and claims. The department shall make diligent inquiry in every instance after departure without authority or death of a patient, to ascertain the whereabouts of the patient or that of the patient's legal heirs or representatives, and shall turn over to the proper person the money or articles of personal property in the custody of the facility to the credit of the patient. Claims to the money or articles of personal property, including claims by the state, may be presented to the department at any time. If a claim other than by the state is established by clear and convincing evidence more than one year after the death or departure without authority of a patient, it shall be certified to the legislature for consideration and the legislature may pay the claim.