(1) Any person who takes a lawfully involuntarily hospitalized patient or resident from any state hospital without the consent of authorized staff physician, or who entices, assists or encourages any such patient or resident to escape, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500). The District Court of the county in which the escape was effected shall have jurisdiction.
(2) Any person who entices, assists, or encourages any patient or resident in a state hospital to leave the hospital for any unlawful purposes shall be imprisoned for not more than six (6) months or fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or both. The District Court of the county in which the escape was effected shall have jurisdiction.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 210.995

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

Effective: January 2, 1978
History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 203, effective January
2, 1978. — Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 90, sec. 62. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch.
208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 216aa-107a.
Formerly codified as KRS § 432.490.

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