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2012 Utah Code
Title 62A - Utah Human Services Code
Article 15 - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Act
Section 622 - Abduction of patient -- Penalty.


UT Code § 62A-15-622 (2012) What's This?

62A-15-622. Abduction of patient -- Penalty.

Any person who abducts a patient who is in the custody of a local mental health authority, or induces any patient to elope or escape from that custody, or attempts to do so, or aids or assists therein, is guilty of a class B misdemeanor, in addition to liability for damages, or subject to other criminal charges.


Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 8, 2002 Special Session 5

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