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2011 South Dakota Code
Title 27A MENTALLY ILL PERSONS
Chapter 01. Definitions And General Provisions
§27A-1-4 Unlawful confinement of mentally ill as felony or misdemeanor.
SD Codified L § 27A-1-4 (through 2011) What's This?
27A-1-4. Unlawful confinement of mentally ill as felony or misdemeanor. Any person who intentionally and wrongfully places or attempts to place any person in a facility for the mentally ill by any method other than as prescribed by law is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Any person who confines any mentally ill person in any other manner or in any other place than is authorized by law, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.2708; SDCL, § 27-1-6; SL 1975, ch 181, § 43; SL 1991, ch 220, § 4.
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