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205.19 – Absconding from a community treatment facility

* § 205.19 Absconding from a community treatment facility.

A person is guilty of absconding from a community treatment facility
when having been released from confinement from a correctional
institution under the jurisdiction of the state department of
corrections and community supervision by transfer to a community
treatment facility, he or she leaves such facility without authorization
or he or she intentionally fails to return to the community treatment
facility at or before the time prescribed for his or her return.

Absconding from a community treatment facility is a class E felony.

* NB Expires September 1, 2017

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