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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 50 P.S. Mental Health § 4605. Penalties

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

The following acts are hereby declared to be crimes and any person found guilty thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or to undergo imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, except that if such acts shall be committed by corporation, partnership or association, the officers and directors of such corporation or the members of such partnership or association, its agents and employes who knowingly participated in such acts shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as hereinbefore provided:

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver or cause to be delivered any alcoholic or other intoxicating or narcotic substance to any person in a facility without the knowledge or consent of the director thereof.

(2) It shall be unlawful for anyone to directly or indirectly, sell, give or furnish to any person admitted, committed or detained in a facility, any weapon or other instrument which may be used to inflict injury unless the instrument is a tool of the activity in which the person has permission to engage.

(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to aid or assist any person committed in any facility to make or attempt to make his escape therefrom, or connive in any way at such escape or attempt at escape.

(4) It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, partnership or association to wilfully cause or conspire with or assist another to cause the unwarranted detention or commitment of any person under the provisions of this act, or the denial to any person of any of the rights accorded to him under the provisions of this act.

(5) It shall be unlawful for any person to disclose without authority the contents of any records or reports touching upon any matter concerning a person who has been admitted, committed or detained pursuant to the provisions of this act.

(6) It shall be unlawful for any physician to knowingly make any false statement, certificate or report which aids in or causes a person to be admitted, committed or detained pursuant to the provisions of this act.

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