2005 Minnesota Statutes - 252.05 — Abduction or enticing away prohibited; penalty.

     252.05 Abduction or enticing away prohibited; penalty. 


    Every person who shall abduct, entice, or carry away from a 
 state hospital for persons with mental retardation any resident 
 thereof, who has not been legally discharged therefrom, shall be 
 guilty of a felony and punished by a fine of not to exceed 
 $3,000 or imprisonment in the Minnesota Correctional 
 Facility-Stillwater or the Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. 
 Cloud not to exceed three years, or both, in the discretion of 
 the court; any and every person who shall abduct, entice, or 
 carry away from any place other than a state hospital, a person 
 duly committed as mentally retarded to the guardianship of the 
 commissioner of human services with the intention of wrongfully 
 removing such person from the direct custody of the commissioner 
 of human services, such person known by the removing person to 
 be under the supervision of the commissioner of human services 
 or the commissioner's agents, shall be guilty of a gross 
 misdemeanor.  


    HIST: (4502) 1923 c 365 s 1; 1929 c 231 s 1; 1953 c 593 s 2; 
 1965 c 45 s 22; 1967 c 6 s 2; 1979 c 102 s 13; 1983 c 10 s 1; 
 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1985 c 21 s 23; 
 1986 c 444