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2020 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 59 - Probate Code
Article 29 - Care And Treatment For Mentally Ill Persons
59-2980 Civil and criminal liability.
Universal Citation: KS Stat § 59-2980 (2020)
59-2980. Civil and criminal liability.
Any person or law enforcement agency, governing body, community mental health center or personnel acting in good faith and without negligence shall be free from all liability, civil or criminal, that might arise out of acting or declining to act pursuant to this act. Any person who for a corrupt consideration or advantage, or through malice, shall make or join in making or advise the making of any false petition, report or order provided for in this act shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
History: L. 1996, ch. 167, § 36; L. 2017, ch. 77, § 20; July 1.
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