Requisites for Commitment

  1. Law
  2. Tennessee Code
  3. Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
  4. General Rules Applicable to Service Recipients
  5. Judicial Procedures for Residential Treatment
  6. Requisites for Commitment

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IF AND ONLY IF

  1. the certificates required by law have been filed with the court showing the need for involuntary care and treatment, AND
  2. the court finds on the basis of clear, unequivocal and convincing evidence that the defendant is subject to involuntary care and treatment under the statute under which the commitment is sought,

    THEN

  3. the court shall commit the person under the commitment statute on which the complaint is based.


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