2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 210 - STATE AND REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS
210.995 Penalty for taking patient from state hospital.

Download as PDF 210.995 Penalty for taking patient from state hospital. (1) (2) Any person who takes a lawfully involuntarily hospitalized patient or resident from any state hospital without the consent of authorized staff physician, or who entices, assists or encourages any such patient or resident to escape, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500). The District Court of the county in which the escape was effected shall have jurisdiction. Any person who entices, assists, or encourages any patient or resident in a state hospital to leave the hospital for any unlawful purposes shall be imprisoned for not more than six (6) months or fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or both. The District Court of the county in which the escape was effected shall have jurisdiction. Effective:January 2, 1978 History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 203, effective January 2, 1978. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 90, sec. 62. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 216aa-107a. Formerly codified as KRS 432.490.