2009 North Carolina Code
Chapter 122C - Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Act of 1985.
§ 122C-65. Offenses relating to clients.

§ 122C‑65.  Offenses relating to clients.

(a)        For the protection of clients receiving treatment or habilitation in a 24‑hour facility, it is unlawful for any individual who is not a developmentally disabled client in a facility:

(1)        To assist, advise, or solicit, or to offer to assist, advise, or solicit a client of a facility to leave without authority;

(2)        To transport or to offer to transport a client of a facility to or from any place without the facility's authority;

(3)        To receive or to offer to receive a minor client of a facility into any place, structure, building, or conveyance for the purpose of engaging in any act that would constitute a sex offense, or to solicit a minor client of a facility to engage in any act that would constitute a sex offense;

(4)        To hide an individual who has left a facility without authority; or

(5)        To engage in, or offer to engage in an act with a client of a facility that would constitute a sex offense.

(b)        Violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor. (1899, c. 1, s. 53; Rev., s. 3694; C.S., s. 6171; 1963, c. 1184, ss. 1, 6; 1985, c. 589, s. 2; 1989, c. 625, s. 11; 1993, c. 539, s. 921; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)