Applicability of other laws
Known as the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act
The act spans §§ 29–29 (44 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Doe a v. Coffee County Board of Education (1992)
Most recently applied in Richard Moreno v. City of Clarksville (September 2015)
Acts 1973, ch. 345, § 30; 1980, ch. 828, § 1; T.C.A., § 23-3304.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Sections 7-31-103, 7-31-112, 7-51-202 [repealed] and 7-51-203, and all other acts or statutes in conflict with this chapter shall only be applicable to governmental entities exercising their right not to come under this chapter as provided for by § 29-20-103.
(2) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, §§ 28-1-106 — 28-1-108 shall apply in causes of action arising pursuant to this chapter.
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.