Current through Acts 2023-2024, ch. 1069
Section 52-3-604 - Escape or violence - Aiding or abetting - Gifts(a) A person commits a Class E felony who:(1) Counsels, causes, influences, aids, or assists a person supported with an intellectual or developmental disability to leave a facility without valid legal authority after the person supported was committed under court order;(2) Harbors or conceals a person supported with an intellectual or developmental disability who has left a facility without valid legal authority;(3) Incites a person supported with an intellectual or developmental disability, while the person supported is committed to a facility, to hurt or injure another person anywhere; or(4) Gives or sells to a person supported with an intellectual or developmental disability committed to a facility designated by the commissioner, whether on the premises of the facility or elsewhere, knowing the person to be a person with an intellectual or developmental disability, any firearms, intoxicating drinks, illegal drugs, or any other harmful articles.(b) An employee or official of a facility who receives from a person with an intellectual or developmental disability anything of value as a gift or for a consideration commits a Class C misdemeanor.(c) 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 must be punished as a principal.Added by 2024 Tenn. Acts, ch. 688,s 2, eff. 7/1/2024.