Tennessee Code Annotated

Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-3-2703 (2026)

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(a) The department of disability and aging has jurisdiction over the intellectual and developmental disabilities facilities of the state, regardless of the names by which the facilities are known.

(b) The department, through its appropriate officials, has the power and duty to provide the best possible care for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state by improving existing facilities, by developing future facilities and programs, and by adopting a preventive program for intellectual and developmental disabilities, as provided in title 52, with control over those services and supports as set out in title 52.

(c) Licensing of these facilities is the responsibility of the department of disability and aging.

Amended by 2024 Tenn. Acts, ch. 688,s 107, eff. 7/1/2024.

Acts 2010 , ch. 1100, § 10; 2012 , ch. 1010, § 1.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2013–2013 · leading case: James Taylor v. Div. of Intellectual Disabilities Servs. (Tenn. Ct. App. 2013).

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James Taylor v. Div. of Intellectual Disabilities Servs. (Tenn. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 2× “Construed and applied in this manner, the statute is appropriately broad and consistent with the Department’s duty at Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-3-2703 to “provide the best possible care for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state 4 Tenn.”

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