Tenn. Code Ann. § 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.

(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.

(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.