Unauthorized Absence from Community Corrections Facility, County Correctional Center, or Assignment Site

From the Law Office of Alison Grinter in Dallas, Texas

1 Degree
2 Statute(s)
3 Caselaw
4 Collateral Consequences
5 Notes

Degree

Unauthorized absence is a state jail felony.

Statute(s)

§ 38.113. UNAUTHORIZED ABSENCE FROM COMMUNITY
CORRECTIONS FACILITY, COUNTY CORRECTIONAL CENTER, OR ASSIGNMENT
SITE.

(a) A person commits an offense if the person:
    (1) is sentenced to or is required as a condition of community supervision or correctional programming to submit to a period of detention or treatment in a community corrections facility or county correctional center;
    (2) fails to report to or leaves the facility, the center, or a community service assignment site as directed by the court, community supervision and corrections department supervising the person, or director of the facility or center in which the person is detained or treated, as appropriate; and
    (3) in failing to report or leaving acts without the approval of the court, the community supervision and corrections department supervising the person, or the director of the facility or center in which the person is detained or treated.
(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, § 1.01, eff. Sept. 1,
1994. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 318, § 12, eff. Sept.
1, 1995.