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2018 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 28 - Mental Health
RS 28:104 - Importation of mental patients prohibited
Universal Citation: LA Rev Stat § 28:104 (2018)
§104. Importation of nonresident psychiatric patients prohibited
A. No person or public carrier shall knowingly import a nonresident psychiatric patient into this state for the purpose of having him committed.
B. Any person who violates the provisions of 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.
Amended by Acts 2017, No. 369, §2.
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