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2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 202A - HOSPITALIZATION OF THE MENTALLY ILL
202A.185 Peace officer authorized to arrest and return patient to hospital.

KY Rev Stat § 202A.185 (2014) What's This?

Download as PDF 202A.185 Peace officer authorized to arrest and return patient to hospital. If a patient undergoing involuntary treatment on an inpatient basis is absent from the hospital without, or in excess of authorization from the hospital staff, the person in charge or that person's designee may contact the appropriate sheriff or other peace officers who shall take the patient into custody and return the patient to the hospital. Effective:July 15, 1988 History: Created 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 139, sec. 11, effective July 15, 1988.

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