The Florida Senate

916.19  Duties, functions, and powers of institutional security personnel.--In case of emergency, and when necessary to provide protection and security to any patient, to the personnel, equipment, buildings, or grounds of a department facility, or to citizens in the surrounding community, institutional security personnel may, when authorized by the administrator of the facility or her or his designee when the administrator is not present, use a chemical weapon against a patient housed in a forensic facility. However, such weapon shall be used only to the extent necessary to provide such protection and security. Under no circumstances shall any such officer carry a chemical weapon on her or his person except during the period of the emergency for which its use was authorized. All chemical weapons shall be placed in secure storage when their use is not authorized as provided in this section.

History.--s. 1, ch. 77-31; s. 1, ch. 79-336; s. 158, ch. 79-400; s. 3, ch. 80-75; s. 40, ch. 85-167; s. 1535, ch. 97-102.

Note.--Former ss. 394.4671, 394.86, 394.906.