                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AIDING AND ABETTING IN ESCAPES (§ 37.2-428)

It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of any hospital or training
center or any other person to aid or abet in the escape or secretion of any
lawfully admitted individual receiving services in any hospital or training
center, while the individual is in the hospital or training center or on a day
pass, family visit, trial visit, bond or escapement, or to willfully fail or
refuse to return an individual on a day pass, family visit, or trial visit under
his care and custody to any hospital or training center in which he is receiving
services, having given written obligation to do so, when directed in writing to
do so by the director of the hospital or training center. Any such officer or
employee of any hospital or training center or any other person is guilty of a
Class 1 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 37-228; 1968, c. 477, § 37.1-151; 2005, c. 716; 2012,
cc. 476, 507.