Any person who takes a consumer who has been lawfully admitted from any facility within the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services without the consent of the executive director, or who entices, assists or encourages any such consumer to escape therefrom shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or confined in jail not to exceed one (1) year, or both.
Added by Laws 1953, p. 174, § 133, emerg. eff. June 3, 1953. Renumbered from § 133 of this title by Laws 1986, c. 103, § 103, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Amended by Laws 2005, c. 150, § 62, emerg. eff. May 9, 2005.