Removal of immunity for injury from negligent operation of motor vehicles — Exceptions
Known as the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act
The act spans §§ 29–29 (44 sections).
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case Haynes v. Hamilton County (1994)
Most recently applied in Linda Wimmer v. Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority D/B/A Erlanger Health System (January 2018)
Acts 1973, ch. 345, § 7; T.C.A., § 23-3308.
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) Immunity from suit of all governmental entities is removed for injuries resulting from the negligent operation by any employee of a motor vehicle or other equipment while in the scope of employment.
(2) This section shall not act as a repeal of § 55-8-101, § 55-8-108, or § 55-8-132, and the immunities provided by these sections are hereby expressly continued.
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.