Emergency detention
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Dorothy King v. Virginia Betts (2011)
Most recently applied in Barbara T. Collins v. HCA Health Services Of Tennessee, Inc. (October 2016)
Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1.
IF AND ONLY IF
(1) a person has a mental illness or serious emotional disturbance, AND
(2) the person poses an immediate substantial likelihood of serious harm under § 33-6-501 because of the mental illness or serious emotional disturbance, THEN
(3) the person may be detained under § 33-6-402 to obtain examination for certification of need for care and treatment.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.