Code of Virginia - Title 37.2 Mental Health, Mental Retardation, And Substance Abuse Services - Section 37.2-428 Aiding and abetting in escapes

§ 37.2-428. Aiding and abetting in escapes

It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of any hospital or training center or any other person to aid or abet in the escape or secretion of any lawfully admitted consumer of any hospital or training center, while the consumer is in the hospital or training center or on a day pass, family visit, trial visit, bond or escapement, or to willfully fail or refuse to return a consumer on a day pass, family visit, or trial visit under his care and custody to any hospital or training center in which he is a consumer, having given written obligation to do so, when directed in writing to do so by the director of the hospital or training center. Any such officer or employee of any hospital or training center or any other person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, § 37-228; 1968, c. 477, § 37.1-151; 2005, c. 716.)

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