2010 Tennessee Code
Title 33 - Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Chapter 6 - Mental Health Service
Part 2 - Voluntary Admission to Inpatient Treatment
33-6-201 - Persons who may apply for voluntary admission.

33-6-201. Persons who may apply for voluntary admission.

The following persons may apply for admission to a public or private hospital or treatment resource for diagnosis, observation and treatment of a mental illness or serious emotional disturbance:

     (1)  A person who is sixteen (16) years of age or over and who does not lack capacity to apply under § 33-3-218;

     (2)  A parent, legal custodian, or legal guardian who is acting on behalf of a child;

     (3)  A conservator whom the appointing court has expressly granted authority to apply for the person's admission to a hospital or treatment resource for mental illness or serious emotional disturbance;

     (4)  A qualified mental health professional acting on the basis of the terms of the person's declaration for mental health treatment;

     (5)  A person's attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care, under title 34, chapter 6, part 2; or

     (6)  A caregiver under title 34, chapter 6, part 3, who is acting on behalf of a child.

[Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1; 2002, ch. 730, § 35; 2004, ch. 565, § 4.]