[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 8, Volume 1]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 8CFR236.2]



[Page 431]

 

                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY

 

               CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

 

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.