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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE |
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Title 7. MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION |
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Subtitle D. PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION ACT |
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Chapter 593. ADMISSION AND COMMITMENT TO MENTAL RETARDATION SERVICES |
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Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
Sec. 593.012. ABSENT WITHOUT AUTHORITY
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(a) The superintendent of a residential care facility to which a client has been admitted for court-ordered care and treatment may have a client who is absent without authority taken into custody, detained, and returned to the facility by issuing a certificate to a law enforcement agency of the municipality or county in which the facility is located or by obtaining a court order issued by a magistrate in the manner prescribed by Section 574.083.
(b) The client shall be returned to the residential care facility in accordance with the procedures prescribed by Section 574.083.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1016, Sec. 2, eff. June 18, 1999; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1187, Sec. 20, eff. Sept. 1, 1999; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1006, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.