2010 Tennessee Code
Title 33 - Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Chapter 3 - General Rules Applicable to Service Recipients
Part 5 - Judicial Procedures Generally
33-3-502 - Record of proceedings Copy of court order with recipient's history to hospital or developmental center.

33-3-502. Record of proceedings Copy of court order with recipient's history to hospital or developmental center.

(a)  In all judicial proceedings under this title the clerk of the court in which the proceedings are held shall keep a careful and accurate record of the proceedings.

(b)  (1)  Whenever, in a judicial proceeding under this title, a person has been ordered hospitalized or admitted, the clerk of the court shall immediately communicate the action of the court to the chief officer of the hospital or developmental center.

     (2)  A copy of the court order shall be forwarded to the hospital or developmental center, together with a personal and family history of the person with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability that the clerk shall complete, and any other forms or documents required by rules of the department.

     (3)  The department shall furnish a supply of all necessary forms to the clerks of the various courts.

(c)  The clerk may communicate to the chief officer of the hospital or developmental center the cost that shall be included in the costs and expenses of the case.

[Acts 1965, ch. 38, § 16; 1974, ch. 802, § 24; 1975, ch. 248, § 1; T.C.A., § 33-311; Acts 2000, ch. 947, §§ 1, 6.]