2023 Tennessee Code
Title 33 - MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (§§ 33-1-101 — 33-11-106)
Chapter 3 - GENERAL RULES APPLICABLE TO SERVICE RECIPIENTS (§§ 33-3-101 — 33-3-904)
Part 9 - VIOLATIONS OF SERVICE RECIPIENT RIGHTS (§§ 33-3-901 — 33-3-904)
Section 33-3-904 - Aiding or abetting escape - Inciting service recipient to violence - Supplying with dangerous or intoxicating substances

• (a) A person commits a Class E felony who:
  • (1) Counsels, causes, influences, aids or assists a service recipient with mental illness or serious emotional disturbance to leave a hospital or developmental center without authority after the service recipient was admitted under court order;
  • (2) Harbors or conceals a service recipient with mental illness or serious emotional disturbance who has left a hospital or developmental center without authority;
  • (3) Incites a service recipient with mental illness or serious emotional disturbance, while the service recipient is admitted to a hospital or developmental center, to hurt or injure another person anywhere; or
  • (4) Gives or sells to a service recipient with mental illness or serious emotional disturbance in a hospital or developmental center, whether on the premises of the facility or elsewhere, knowing the person to be a person with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability, any firearms, intoxicating drinks, drugs, or any other harmful articles.

• (b) A hospital or developmental center employee or official who receives from a person with mental illness or serious emotional disturbance anything of value as a gift or for a consideration commits a Class C misdemeanor.

• (c) A person, who aids or abets in the commission of any of the foregoing offenses or aids or abets in a prohibited attempt, is guilty as if the person were a principal and shall be punished as a principal.

Amended by 2024 Tenn. Acts, ch. 688,s 83, eff. 7/1/2024.

Acts 1965, ch. 38, § 23; 1974, ch. 802, § 30; 1980, ch. 838, § 5; T.C.A., § 33-317; Acts 1989, ch. 591, §§ 30, 31, 113; T.C.A., § 33-3-106(b)-(d); Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1.