Source: https://www.justice.gov/elderjustice/prosecutors/statutes?field_statute_state=TN&field_statute_category=All
Timestamp: 2019-01-18 22:37:49
Document Index: 724573691

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 71', '§ 71', '§ 71', '§ 71', '§ 71', 'art 1', '§ 39']

Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-6-102 (2016)
71-6-102. Part definitions.
§ 71-6-102. Definitions.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-6-117 (2016)
71-6-117. Willful abuse, neglect or exploitation prohibited -- Penalty.
Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 71-6-101 through 71-6-125 (2018)
Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-6-102 (2018)
Title 71 Welfare Chapter 6 Programs and Services for Abused Persons Part 1 Adult Protection
(1) (A) "Abuse or neglect" means the infliction of physical pain, injury, or mental anguish, or the deprivation of services by a caretaker that are necessary to maintain the health and welfare of an adult or a situation in which an adult is unable to provide or obtain the services that are necessary to maintain that person's health or welfare. Nothing in this part shall be construed to mean a person is abused or neglected or in need of protective services for the sole reason that the person relies on or is being furnished treatment by spiritual means through prayer alone in accordance with a recognized religious method of healing in lieu of medical treatment; further, nothing in this part shall be construed to require or authorize the provision of medical care to any terminally ill person if such person has executed an unrevoked living will in accordance with the Tennessee Right to Natural Death Act, compiled in title 32, chapter 11, and if the provision of such medical care would conflict with the terms of such living will; (B) "Abuse or neglect" means transporting an adult and knowingly abandoning, leaving or failing to provide additional planned transportation for the adult if the adult's caretaker knows, or should know, that: (i) The adult is unable to protect or care for himself or herself without assistance or supervision; and (ii) The caretaker's conduct causes any of the results listed in subdivision (1)(A) or creates a substantial risk of such results;
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-15-101
(a) A person commits the crime of nonsupport who fails to provide support which that person is able to provide and knows the person has a duty to provide to a minor child or to a child or spouse who, because of physical or mental disability, is unable to be self-supporting.
(b) “Child” includes legitimate children and children whose parentage has been admitted by the person charged or established by judicial action.
(c) “Support” includes, but is not limited to, financial assistance, food, shelter, clothing, medical attention or, if determined elsewhere by law, other necessary care.
(e)(1) Nonsupport under subsection (a) is a Class A misdemeanor.
(2) Flagrant nonsupport under subsection (d) is a Class E felony.
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