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     243.55 Contraband articles; exceptions; penalty. 

    Subdivision 1.    Contraband; bringing into correctional facility; 
 felony.  Any person who brings, sends, or in any 
 manner causes to be introduced into any state correctional 
 facility or state hospital, or within or upon the grounds 
 belonging to or land or controlled by any such facility or 
 hospital, or is found in possession of any controlled substance 
 as defined in section 152.01, subdivision 4, or any firearms, 
 weapons or explosives of any kind, without the consent of the 
 chief executive officer thereof, shall be guilty of a felony 
 and, upon conviction thereof, punished by imprisonment for a 
 term of not more than ten years.  Any person who brings, sends, 
 or in any manner causes to be introduced into any state 
 correctional facility or within or upon the grounds belonging to 
 or land controlled by the facility, or is found in the 
 possession of any intoxicating or alcoholic liquor or malt 
 beverage of any kind without the consent of the chief executive 
 officer thereof, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.  The 
 provisions of this section shall not apply to physicians 
 carrying drugs or introducing any of the above described liquors 
 into such facilities for use in the practice of their 
 profession; nor to sheriffs or other peace officers carrying 
 revolvers or firearms as such officers in the discharge of 
 duties. 

    Subd. 2.    Search for contraband.  The chief executive officer 
 of any state 
 correctional facility may, under rules prescribed by the 
 commissioner of corrections, provide for the search of all 
 persons admitted into the facility or upon the grounds thereof.  
 The head of any state hospital may, under rules prescribed by 
 the commissioner of human services, provide for the search of 
 all persons admitted into the hospital or upon the grounds 
 thereof.  Any contraband as described in subdivision 1 is 
 subject to confiscation by the chief executive officer of a 
 facility or the head of a hospital. 

    Subd. 3.    State hospital or hospital; definition.  As used in 
 this 
 section, "state hospital" or 
 "hospital" means any state-operated facility or hospital under 
 the authority of the commissioner of human services for (a) 
 persons with mental illness, mental retardation, or chemical 
 dependency, (b) sex offenders, (c) persons with a sexual 
 psychopathic personality, or (d) sexually dangerous person.  

    HIST: (10803) 1913 c 196 s 1; 1915 c 241 s 1; 1923 c 391 s 1; 
 1959 c 85 s 1; 1974 c 291 s 1; 1979 c 102 s 6; 1980 c 390 s 1; 
 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1985 c 21 s 2; 1989 c 290 art 3 s 24; 
 1Sp1994 c 1 art 2 s 21; 2004 c 288 art 3 s 6 

Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.