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N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 29.19: Powers and duties of peace officers acting pursuant to their special duties and police officers to apprehend, restrain, and transport per...

* § 29.19 Powers and duties of peace officers acting pursuant to their
            special duties and police officers to apprehend, restrain,
            and transport persons to facilities.
  A person who has been committed or admitted to a department facility
or a hospital licensed or operated by the office of mental health and
who has been reported as escaped therefrom or from lawful custody, or
who resists or evades lawful custody; and any patient for whom the
director of a hospital operated by the office of mental health, or the
director's designee, has terminated a conditional release and ordered
such patient to return to such facility; and any patient for whom a
director of an assisted outpatient treatment program, as defined in
subdivision (a) of section 9.60 of this chapter, or the director's
designee, or anyone designated pursuant to section 9.37 of this chapter,
has directed the removal to a hospital pursuant to subdivision (n) of
section 9.60 of this chapter, may be apprehended, restrained,
transported to, and returned to such school or hospital by any peace
officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or any police officer
who is a member of an authorized police department or force or of a
sheriff's department, and it shall be the duty of any such officer to
assist any representative of a department or licensed facility, or an
assisted outpatient treatment program, to take into custody any such
person or patient upon the request of such representative, director or
designee.
  * NB Effective until June 30, 2027
* § 29.19 Powers and duties of peace officers acting pursuant to their
            special duties and police officers to apprehend, restrain,
            and transport persons to facilities.
  A person who has been committed or admitted to a department facility
and who has been reported as escaped therefrom or from lawful custody,
or who resists or evades lawful custody, may be apprehended, restrained,
transported to, and returned to such school or hospital by any peace
officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or any police officer,
and it shall be the duty of any such officer to assist any
representative of a department facility to take into custody any such
person upon the request of such representative.
  * NB Effective June 30, 2027

Where this section sits in the code

Mental Hygiene Law
Title E. General Provisions
Article 29. General Provisions Relating to In-patient Facilities

* § 29.19 Powers and duties of peace officers acting pursuant to their

special duties and police officers to apprehend, restrain,

and transport persons to facilities.

A person who has been committed or admitted to a department facility

or a hospital licensed or operated by the office of mental health and

who has been reported as escaped therefrom or from lawful custody, or

who resists or evades lawful custody; and any patient for whom the

director of a hospital operated by the office of mental health, or the

director's designee, has terminated a conditional release and ordered

such patient to return to such facility; and any patient for whom a

director of an assisted outpatient treatment program, as defined in

subdivision (a) of section 9.60 of this chapter, or the director's

designee, or anyone designated pursuant to section 9.37 of this chapter,

has directed the removal to a hospital pursuant to subdivision (n) of

section 9.60 of this chapter, may be apprehended, restrained,

transported to, and returned to such school or hospital by any peace

officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or any police officer

who is a member of an authorized police department or force or of a

sheriff's department, and it shall be the duty of any such officer to

assist any representative of a department or licensed facility, or an

assisted outpatient treatment program, to take into custody any such

person or patient upon the request of such representative, director or

designee.

* NB Effective until June 30, 2027

* § 29.19 Powers and duties of peace officers acting pursuant to their

special duties and police officers to apprehend, restrain,

and transport persons to facilities.

A person who has been committed or admitted to a department facility

and who has been reported as escaped therefrom or from lawful custody,

or who resists or evades lawful custody, may be apprehended, restrained,

transported to, and returned to such school or hospital by any peace

officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or any police officer,

and it shall be the duty of any such officer to assist any

representative of a department facility to take into custody any such

person upon the request of such representative.

* NB Effective June 30, 2027

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