§ 33-4-101 Right to receive visitors – Right to communicate with family, attorney, physician, minister and courts
§ 33-4-103 Notice of admission to guardian or family
§ 33-4-104 Treatment for physical disorder prior to admission
§ 33-4-105 Written statement of release procedures and other rights
§ 33-4-106 Unauthorized leave from facility
§ 33-4-107 Commitment to private facility – Certificate by disinterested professional
§ 33-4-108 Certificate of need – Basis – Contents – Violation
§ 33-4-109 Notice of death to next of kin – Notification to office of medical examiner to investigate death – Disposal of unclaimed property after discharge or death
§ 33-4-110 Inability to exercise rights – Appointment of a conservator
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 33 > Chapter 4 > Part 1 - Rights of Residential Service Recipients

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Certificate of authority: means a legal right granted by the commissioner and enjoyed by a county mutual insurance company to provide insurance as provided for in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 56-22-103
  • Chief officer: means the person with overall authority for a public or private hospital or treatment resource, or the person's designee. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-22-103
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • County mutual insurance company: means a person that is authorized to provide insurance coverage pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 56-22-103
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Executor: includes an administrator, where the subject matter applies to an administrator. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Gross premium: means maximum gross premiums as provided in the policy contracts, new and renewal, including policy or membership fees, whether paid in part or in whole by cash, automatic premium loans, dividends applied in any manner whatsoever, and without deduction or exclusion of dividends in any manner, but excluding premiums returned on cancelled policies, on account of reduction in rates, or reductions in the amount insured. See Tennessee Code 56-22-103
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Hospital: means a public or private hospital or facility or part of a hospital or facility equipped to provide inpatient care and treatment for persons with mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • insurance company: means any corporation, association, partnership or individual engaged as a principal in the business of insurance not licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 56-22-103
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Livestock: means all equine as well as animals that are being raised primarily for use as food or fiber for human utilization or consumption including, but not limited to, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and poultry. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Mental illness: means a psychiatric disorder, alcohol dependence, or drug dependence, but does not include intellectual disability or other developmental disabilities as defined in title 52. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Person: means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any similar entity or any combination of these acting in concert. See Tennessee Code 56-22-103
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Personal representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Policyholder: means a person who is insured by a county mutual insurance company. See Tennessee Code 56-22-103
  • Premium: means money given in consideration to a county mutual insurance company on account of or in connection with an insurance policy for a specified policy period. See Tennessee Code 56-22-103
  • Principal place of business: means the primary office maintained by a county mutual insurance company in the county in which a county mutual insurance company was first granted a certificate of authority. See Tennessee Code 56-22-103
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Serious emotional disturbance: means a condition in a child who currently or at any time during the past year has had a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to meet psychiatric diagnostic criteria that results in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits the child's role or functioning in family, school, or community activities and includes any mental disorder, regardless of whether it is of biological etiology. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • 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
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Surplus: means the accumulated assets of a county mutual insurance company that exceed the county mutual insurance company's accrued losses and expenses. See Tennessee Code 56-22-103
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105