4801

Any public officer or employee who has in his/her custody or authority any inmate on whose behalf a writ of habeas corpus is issued and who, with the purpose of eluding its presentation or evading its effects, transfers the inmate into the custody of another person or places him under the power or authority of another person, or hides or changes the location of imprisonment, or transfers the inmate out of the jurisdiction ordered in the writ shall incur a fourth degree felony.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 173, eff. May 1, 2005.