(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 unlawf ul 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.
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