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.]