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SDCL § 27A-12-27.3: Immunity from liability for good faith detention.
Where this section sits in the code
- TITLE 27A. MENTALLY ILL PERSONS
- CHAPTER 27A-12. CARE, TREATMENT, AND RIGHTS OF PATIENTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
The detention of a person in good faith and not in excess of the period of time specified in § 27A-12-27.2 may not render any law enforcement official, agency, institution, board, court, physician, inpatient facility, or staff detaining the person liable in any criminal or civil action for false arrest or false imprisonment.
Source: SL 2016, ch 147, § 4.
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