[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 8, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 8CFR236.2]

[Page 473]
 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
CHAPTER I--IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 236--APPREHENSION AND DETENTION OF INADMISSIBLE AND DEPORTABLE ALIENS; REMOVAL OF ALIENS ORDERED REMOVED--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart A--Detention of Aliens Prior to Order of Removal
 
Sec. 236.2  Confined aliens, incompetents, and minors.

    (a) Service. If the respondent is confined, or if he or she is an 
incompetent, or a minor under the age of 14, the notice to appear, and 
the warrant of arrest, if issued, shall be served in the manner 
prescribed in Sec. 239.1 of this chapter upon the person or persons 
specified by Sec. 103.5a(c) of this chapter.
    (b) Service custody and cost of maintenance. An alien confined 
because of physical or mental disability in an institution or hospital 
shall not be accepted into physical custody by the Service until an 
order of removal has been entered and the Service is ready to remove the 
alien. When such an alien is an inmate of a public or private 
institution at the time of the commencement of the removal proceedings, 
expenses for the maintenance of the alien shall not be incurred by the 
Government until he or she is taken into physical custody by the 
Service.