Section 7-516 - Appointment of employees as law-enforcement officers.
§ 7-516. Appointment of employees as law-enforcement officers.
The administrative head for each State residential center may appoint any employee as a law-enforcement officer and, while the employee holds a special police commission issued by the Governor, the employee may:
(1) Return an individual with an intellectual disability to the State residential center from which the individual has left without approved leave; and
(2) Be used to protect individuals or property at the State residential center.
[1986, ch. 636, § 2; ch. 637, § 2; 2009, ch. 119.]