CHAPTER 8. APPREHENDING AND RETURNING ESCAPED PATIENTS

IC 12-24-8
    Chapter 8. Apprehending and Returning Escaped Patients

IC 12-24-8-1
Sheriff to take charge of and return escaped individual
    Sec. 1. If an individual escapes from the facility to which anindividual is committed under IC 12-26 or fails to comply with therequirements for outpatient status in accordance with IC 12-26-14-8,the sheriff of the county in which the individual is found shall takecharge of and return the individual to the nearest state institution orcommunity mental health center that has appropriate and availablefacilities and personnel to detain the escaped individual.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.18.

IC 12-24-8-2
Expense; charge against committing county
    Sec. 2. The expense of apprehending and returning the individualis a charge against the county from which the individual wasoriginally committed.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.18.

IC 12-24-8-3
Receipt for individual delivered; sheriff's expense account;payment
    Sec. 3. (a) The sheriff shall take a receipt from the superintendentof the state institution or community mental health center to whichthe individual is delivered.
    (b) The sheriff's expense account, when submitted with the receiptobtained under subsection (a) to the auditor of the county from whichthe individual has been committed, shall be paid in the same manneras payments for the original delivery of the individual to the facilityare paid.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.18.

IC 12-24-8-4
Transfer of returned individual
    Sec. 4. The appropriate division shall arrange for the transfer ofthe returned individual from the facility to which the individual isreturned to the facility where the individual is committed underIC 12-26.
As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.18.