Tennessee § 33-3-403 - Emergency residential care and treatment.

§ 33-3-403. Emergency residential care and treatment.

If the director of a facility of the department of correction determines, on the basis of a written report of a licensed physician or a licensed psychologist designated as a health service provider, that a person in the director's custody: Has mental illness or serious emotional disturbance; and Is in need of emergency residential care and treatment for the condition that cannot be provided at an appropriate facility of the department of correction and that can be provided at an appropriate residential program of the department of mental health and substance abuse services, the director shall immediately have the person transferred to the custody of the commissioner at a facility designated by the commissioner. When a person is transferred from the department of correction to the department of mental health and substance abuse services under this section, the chief officer of the receiving facility shall convene a transfer committee not less than seven (7) nor more than fourteen (14) days thereafter unless the person is returned to the department of correction before the scheduled hearing date. Acts 1984, ch. 922, § 34; 1989, ch. 278, § 33; 1996, ch. 1079, §§ 43-45; 2000, ch. 947, §§ 1, 6; 2010, ch. 1100, § 38; 2012, ch. 575, § 1. Compiler's Notes. Acts 2010, ch. 1100, § 153 provided that the commissioner of mental health and developmental disabilities, the commissioner of mental health (now commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services), the commissioner of intellectual and developmental disabilities, and the commissioner of finance and administration are authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of the act. All such rules and regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with the provisions of the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.