2010 Tennessee Code
Title 33 - Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Chapter 6 - Mental Health Service
Part 4 - Emergency Involuntary Admission to Inpatient Treatment
33-6-415 - Treatment not to render defendant unable to participate in probable cause hearing.
33-6-415. Treatment not to render defendant unable to participate in probable cause hearing.
Pending the probable cause hearing under § 33-6-422, no treatment shall be given that will make the defendant unable to consult with counsel or to prepare a defense in proceedings for involuntary care and treatment. No psychosurgery, convulsive treatments, or insulin treatment shall be undertaken for any psychiatric disorder until an order has been entered, after the § 33-6-422 probable cause hearing in accordance with the provisions of this part, requiring continued involuntary care and treatment of the defendant.
[Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1.]
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