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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 210 STATE AND REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS
210.995 Penalty for taking patient from state hospital.
Download pdfassists or encourages any such patient or resident to escape, shall be fined not more
than five hundred dollars ($500). The District Court of the county in which the
escape was effected shall have jurisdiction. (2) Any person who entices, assists, or encourages any patient or resident in a state hospital to leave the hospital for any unlawful purposes shall be imprisoned for not
more than six (6) months or fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or
both. The District Court of the county in which the escape was effected shall have
jurisdiction. Effective: January 2, 1978
History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 203, effective January 2, 1978. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 90, sec. 62. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts
ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 216aa-107a. Formerly codified as KRS 432.490.
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