2014 Idaho Statutes
Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 82 - IDAHO SAFE HAVEN ACT
Section 39-8204 - PROTECTIVE CUSTODY -- PLACEMENT -- IMMUNITY.
(2) The department of health and welfare shall place an abandoned child with a potential adoptive parent as soon as possible.
(3) A peace officer or other person appointed by the court who takes a child into custody under this section, shall not be held liable either criminally or civilly unless the action of taking the child was exercised in bad faith or in violation of the provisions of this chapter.
History:
[(39-8204) 39-8104, added 2001, ch. 357, sec. 1, p. 1254; am. and redesig. 2005, ch. 25, sec. 71, p. 108.]
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