§ 122C-65. Offenses relating to clients.
§122C‑65. Offenses relating to clients.
(a) For the protectionof clients receiving treatment or habilitation in a 24‑hour facility, itis unlawful for any individual who is not a developmentally disabled client ina facility:
(1) To assist, advise,or solicit, or to offer to assist, advise, or solicit a client of a facility toleave without authority;
(2) To transport or tooffer to transport a client of a facility to or from any place without thefacility's authority;
(3) To receive or tooffer to receive a minor client of a facility into any place, structure,building, or conveyance for the purpose of engaging in any act that wouldconstitute a sex offense, or to solicit a minor client of a facility to engagein any act that would constitute a sex offense;
(4) To hide anindividual who has left a facility without authority; or
(5) To engage in, oroffer to engage in an act with a client of a facility that would constitute asex offense.
(b) Violation of thissection is a Class 1 misdemeanor. (1899, c. 1, s. 53; Rev., s.3694; C.S., s. 6171; 1963, c. 1184, ss. 1, 6; 1985, c. 589, s. 2; 1989, c. 625,s. 11; 1993, c. 539, s. 921; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)