4.__Telephone call account.__The commissioner may establish a telephone call account for the sole purpose of paying for use of the department's client telephone system and into which money received by clients may be deposited.__Money received by a client and clearly designated by the sender for paying for telephone calls must be directly deposited into the telephone call account.__ In addition, a client may remove the client's money from the general client account and deposit it into the telephone call account.__Once deposited into the telephone call account, the client may use the money only for paying for the client's telephone calls.__Any money received by a client and not used for paying for the client's telephone calls must be transferred from the telephone call account to the department's general client account at the time of the client's discharge or transfer to supervised community confinement or community reintegration status and is subject to any collections provided for by statute or rule prior to delivery to the client.__The commissioner shall keep a record of all money in the telephone call account and is responsible for safekeeping of the client's money while the client is in the custody of the department and for the transfer of that money to the general client account and delivery to the client as set out in this section.

Sec. 8. 34-A MRSA §3040-A, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1991, c. 824, Pt. A, §69, is further amended to read:

1. Payment. Except as provided in subsection 4, if any client under the control of the department dies, leaving on deposit in the client's department's general client account and telephone call account at a correctional or detention facility an amount not exceeding $1,000, and no personal representative of the client's estate is appointed, the chief administrative officer may pay the balance of the client's account deposits in the accounts to the surviving spouse or next of kin in accordance with the Probate Code, Title 18-A, sections 2-101 to 2-114, to the funeral director having any bill outstanding for the burial of the decedent or to any other preferred creditor or creditors who may appear to be entitled thereto, and shall deliver personal property in the chief administrative officer's custody to the surviving spouse or next of kin in accordance with the Probate Code, Title 18-A, sections 2-101 to 2-114.

Sec. 9. 34-A MRSA §3040-A, sub-§4, as amended by PL 1991, c. 824, Pt. A, §69, is further amended to read: