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2012 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 28 — Mental health
RS 28:104 — Importation of mental patients prohibited
LA Rev Stat § 28:104 What's This?
§104. Importation of mental patients prohibited
No person or public carrier shall knowingly import a non-resident mental patient into this state for the purpose of having him committed.
Any person who violates this Section shall be fined one hundred dollars or imprisoned for sixty days, or both, and the patient shall be removed from the state at the expense of the offending person or public carrier.
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