2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 52 - ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE COMMITMENT
SECTION 44-52-150. Reconfinement of involuntarily committed patient who has left treatment facility without permission.
If any patient involuntarily committed to a treatment facility is absent without permission a law enforcement officer may, upon written order of the head of the treatment facility and without the necessity of a warrant or court order, take the patient into custody and return him to the facility. No person may be reconfined pursuant to this section after being continuously absent from the jurisdiction of the Department for at least one year.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 487, Section 2.
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