(1) Any magistrate upon information upon oath of any informant to the effect that the informant has good cause to suspect and believe and does suspect and believe some person to be a person of unsound mind and a proper subject for confinement, may, at his or her home or in any place which he or she deems convenient other than an open court, examine such suspected person and in the same place or elsewhere other than in an open court, may hold an inquiry as to the state of mind of such suspected person. However, in the case of a person suspected of being a feeble minded person or child the informant shall be the parent, guardian or other person having the care of such person or child.