Costs and a reasonable attorney's fee shall be assessed against the contestant or the appellant if the contest or the appeal is maliciously or frivolously prosecuted.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-17-115
Malicious or frivolous contests
Known as the Election Code
The act spans §§ 2-10-102 to 2-9-118 (475 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Stuart v. Anderson County Election Commission (2009)
Most recently applied in Stuart v. Anderson County Election Commission (February 2009)
Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., § 2-1715.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.