Any officer or employee of a facility who maliciously assaults, beats, batters, abuses, or uses mechanical restraints, or willfully aids, abets, advises or permits any patient confined therein to be maliciously assaulted, beaten, battered, abused, or mechanically restrained shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not more than five (5) years, or a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or both such fine and imprisonment.

Laws 1953, p. 174, § 134. Renumbered from § 134 by Laws 1986, c. 103, § 103, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. ; Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 468, Effective Date Amended to July 1, 1999 by Laws 1998, c. 2 (First Extraordinary Session), §§ 23-26, effective June 19, 1998 (superseded document available); Amended by H.B. 1009X (1st Ex. Sess. 1999), § 340, emerg. eff. July 1, 1999 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2003, HB 1266, c. 46 § 7, emerg. eff. April 8, 2003 (superseded document available).