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2025 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 83 - State Institutions
83-356 - Mentally ill persons; mistreatment; liability; penalty.
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NE Code § 83-356 (2025)
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83-356. Mentally ill persons; mistreatment; liability; penalty.
Any person taking care of a mentally ill person, and restraining such a person, either with or without authority, who shall treat such person with wanton severity, harshness or cruelty, or shall in any way abuse such a person, shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor and shall also be liable in an action for all damages sustained by such mentally ill person.
Source
- G.S.1873, c. 31, § 34, p. 418;
- R.S.1913, § 7261;
- C.S.1922, § 6918;
- C.S.1929, § 83-723;
- R.S.1943, § 83-356;
- Laws 1947, c. 335, § 43, p. 1074;
- Laws 1959, c. 442, § 9, p. 1490;
- Laws 1977, LB 39, § 312.
Annotations
This section does not create a criminal offense for lack of a penalty. Redding v. State, 165 Neb. 307, 85 N.W.2d 647 (1957).
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