(a) The chief officer shall be under the direction of the commissioner and has the following powers and duties to:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 33-2-803

  • 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 mental health and substance abuse services. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • 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
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. 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
  • 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
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) Exercise general superintendence over all matters relating to the facility;
(2) Perform the duties of a treasurer of the facility without any additional compensation, depositing all moneys coming into the chief officer’s hands in some one of the banks designated as state depositories, for safekeeping, until drawn out from time to time for the benefit of the facility; and
(3) Make reports as the commissioner may require.
(b) The chief officer shall be authorized to make written application to the governor for issuance of requisition papers for the purpose of returning any person to the state who has left a facility without authorization and fled from the state when the person with mental illness or serious emotional disturbance had been committed to the facility or the custody of the commissioner. The application shall be in the same form as required for the return of a fugitive from justice.
(c) Chapter 4, part 2 of this title, to the extent that its application would be contrary to other statutes or to federal law, shall not apply to money or funds that are paid to the chief officer of a facility by the veterans’ administration.
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