229.14A  Escape from custody.

A person who is placed in a hospital or other suitable facility for evaluation under section 229.13 or who is required to remain hospitalized for treatment under section 229.14, subsection 2, shall remain at that hospital or facility unless discharged or otherwise permitted to leave by the court or the chief medical officer of the hospital or facility. If a person placed at a hospital or facility or required to remain at a hospital or facility leaves the facility without permission or without having been discharged, the chief medical officer may notify the sheriff of the person's absence and the sheriff shall take the person into custody and return the person promptly to the hospital or facility.

Section History: Recent form

  92 Acts, ch 1072, § 4

Internal References

  Referred to in § 218.92, 222.7, 222.55, 225.15, 225.17, 226.31, 227.15, 229.17, 229.21, 229.26, 229.38


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