Aiding or Abetting Escape — Inciting Service Recipient to Violence — Supplying With Dangerous or Intoxicating Substances

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
4. General Rules Applicable to Service Recipients
5. Violations of Service Recipient Rights
6. Aiding or Abetting Escape — Inciting Service Recipient to Violence — Supplying With Dangerous or Intoxicating Substances

1. A person commits a Class E felony who:
   1. Counsels, causes, influences, aids or assists a service recipient with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability to leave a hospital or developmental center without authority after the service recipient was admitted under court order;
   2. Harbors or conceals a service recipient with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability who has left a hospital or developmental center without authority;
   3. Incites a service recipient with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability, while the service recipient is admitted to a hospital or developmental center, to hurt or injure another person anywhere; or
   4. Gives or sells to a service recipient with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability in a hospital or developmental center, whether on the premises of the facility or elsewhere, knowing the person to be a person with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability, any firearms, intoxicating drinks, drugs, or any other harmful articles.
2. A hospital or developmental center employee or official who receives from a person with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability anything of value as a gift or for a consideration commits a Class C misdemeanor.
3. A person, who aids or abets in the commission of any of the foregoing offenses or aids or abets in a prohibited attempt, is guilty as if the person were a principal and shall be punished as a principal.

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