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16-41-9-6. Detained carriers; isolation; unauthorized absences

IN Code § 16-41-9-6 (2019) (N/A)
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Sec. 6. (a) The chief medical officer of a hospital or other institutional facility may direct that a carrier detained under this article be placed apart from the others and restrained from leaving the facility. A carrier detained under this article shall observe all the rules of the facility or is subject to further action before the committing court.

(b) A carrier detained under this article who leaves a tuberculosis hospital or other institutional facility without being authorized to leave or who fails to return from an authorized leave without having been formally discharged is considered absent without leave.

(c) The sheriff of the county in which a carrier referred to in subsection (b) is found shall apprehend the carrier and return the carrier to the facility at which the carrier was being detained upon written request of the superintendent of the facility. Expenses incurred under this section are treated as expenses described in section 13 of this chapter.

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-10.5-15.]

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24.

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