Section 509. Absence of inmate for funeral and deathbed visits

The sheriff
  of a local correctional facility or his designee may permit  any  inmate
  confined in his local correctional facility to attend the funeral of his
  or  her  father,  mother,  guardian  or former guardian, child, brother,
  sister, husband,  wife,  grandparent,  grandchild,  ancestral  uncle  or
  ancestral  aunt within the state, or to visit such individual during his
  or her illness if death be imminent; but  the  exercise  of  such  power
  shall  be  subject to such rules and regulations as the commission shall
  prescribe, respecting the  granting  of  such  permission,  duration  of
  absence  from  the  institution, custody, transportation and care of the
  inmate, and guarding against escape.