33-2-803 - Powers and duties of chief officers. - Tennessee Statutes

33-2-803. Powers and duties of chief officers.

(a)  The chief officer shall be under the direction of the commissioner and has the following powers and duties to:

     (1)  Exercise general superintendence over all matters relating to the facility;

     (2)  Perform the duties of a treasurer of the facility without any additional compensation, depositing all moneys coming into the chief officer's hands in some one of the banks designated as state depositories, for safekeeping, until drawn out from time to time for the benefit of the facility; and

     (3)  Make reports as the commissioner may require.

(b)  The chief officer shall be authorized to make written application to the governor for issuance of requisition papers for the purpose of returning any person to the state who has left a facility without authorization and fled from the state when the person with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disability had been committed to the facility or the custody of the commissioner. The application shall be in the same form as required for the return of a fugitive from justice.

(c)  The provisions of chapter 4, part 2 of this title, to the extent that their application would be contrary to other statutes or to federal law, shall not apply to money or funds that are paid to the chief officer of a facility by the veterans' administration.

[Acts 1965, ch. 82, § 12; 1969, ch. 107, § 1; 1973, ch. 127, § 2; 1974, ch. 802, § 11; 1975, ch. 248, § 1; 1981, ch. 224, § 1; 1983, ch. 323, §§ 1-3; T.C.A., § 33-205; Acts 1984, ch. 922, § 3; 1985, ch. 437, §§ 2-4; T.C.A., § 33-2-105; Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1.]