2010 Tennessee Code
Title 33 - Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Chapter 3 - General Rules Applicable to Service Recipients
Part 1 - General Rights of All Service Recipients
33-3-104 - Persons who may consent to disclosure of confidential information.

33-3-104. Persons who may consent to disclosure of confidential information.

Information about a service recipient that is confidential under § 33-3-103 may be disclosed with the consent of:

     (1)  The service recipient who is sixteen (16) years of age or over;

     (2)  The conservator of the service recipient;

     (3)  The attorney in fact under a power of attorney who has the right to make disclosures under the power;

     (4)  The parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian of a service recipient who is a child;

     (5)  The service recipient's guardian ad litem for the purposes of the litigation in which the guardian ad litem serves;

     (6)  The treatment review committee for a service recipient who has been involuntarily committed;

     (7)  The executor, administrator or personal representative on behalf of a deceased service recipient; or

     (8)  The caregiver under title 34, chapter 6, part 3.

[Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1; 2004, ch. 565, § 3.]