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252.05 ABDUCTION OR ENTICING AWAY PROHIBITED; PENALTY.
Every person who shall abduct, entice, or carry away from a state hospital for persons with
developmental disabilities any resident thereof, who has not been legally discharged therefrom,
shall be guilty of a felony and punished by a fine of not to exceed $3,000 or imprisonment in the
Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater or the Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud not
to exceed three years, or both, in the discretion of the court; any and every person who shall
abduct, entice, or carry away from any place other than a state hospital, a person duly committed
as developmentally disabled to the guardianship of the commissioner of human services with
the intention of wrongfully removing such person from the direct custody of the commissioner
of human services, such person known by the removing person to be under the supervision of
the commissioner of human services or the commissioner's agents, shall be guilty of a gross
misdemeanor.
History: (4502) 1923 c 365 s 1; 1929 c 231 s 1; 1953 c 593 s 2; 1965 c 45 s 22; 1967 c
6 s 2; 1979 c 102 s 13; 1983 c 10 s 1; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1985 c
21 s 23; 1986 c 444; 2005 c 56 s 1
Every person who shall abduct, entice, or carry away from a state hospital for persons with
developmental disabilities any resident thereof, who has not been legally discharged therefrom,
shall be guilty of a felony and punished by a fine of not to exceed $3,000 or imprisonment in the
Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater or the Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud not
to exceed three years, or both, in the discretion of the court; any and every person who shall
abduct, entice, or carry away from any place other than a state hospital, a person duly committed
as developmentally disabled to the guardianship of the commissioner of human services with
the intention of wrongfully removing such person from the direct custody of the commissioner
of human services, such person known by the removing person to be under the supervision of
the commissioner of human services or the commissioner's agents, shall be guilty of a gross
misdemeanor.
History: (4502) 1923 c 365 s 1; 1929 c 231 s 1; 1953 c 593 s 2; 1965 c 45 s 22; 1967 c
6 s 2; 1979 c 102 s 13; 1983 c 10 s 1; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1985 c
21 s 23; 1986 c 444; 2005 c 56 s 1
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