(a) The physician or other mental health service provider may provide mental health treatment to the service recipient in a manner contrary to the service recipient’s wishes as expressed in a declaration for mental health treatment

IF AND ONLY IF

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 33-6-1006

  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Service recipient: means a person who is receiving service, has applied for service, or for whom someone has applied for or proposed service because the person has mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
(1) The service recipient is involuntarily committed to an inpatient treatment facility under this title and a treatment review committee authorizes it, OR
(2) There is an emergency endangering the service recipient’s life or health.
(b) A declaration does not limit any authority under this title to take a person into custody or to admit, retain, or treat a person in a mental health facility.
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