Absconding from a community treatment facility · as in force on May 31, 2026
* § 205.19 Absconding from a community treatment facility.
A person is guilty of absconding from a community treatment facility when having been released from confinement from a correctional institution under the jurisdiction of the state department of corrections and community supervision by transfer to a community treatment facility, he or she leaves such facility without authorization or he or she intentionally fails to return to the community treatment facility at or before the time prescribed for his or her return.
Absconding from a community treatment facility is a class E felony.
* NB Expires September 1, 2027
A person transferred from state correctional confinement to a community treatment facility commits this offense by leaving without authorization or intentionally failing to return by the required time. ★ It is a class E felony, and the section expires September 1, 2027.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.