Removal of immunity for injury from unsafe streets and highways — Notice required
Known as the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act
The act spans §§ 29–29 (44 sections).
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case Coln v. City of Savannah (1998)
Most recently applied in C. Wesley Fowler as Administrator Ad Litem of the Estate of Frank Jackson v. City of Memphis (August 2016)
Acts 1973, ch. 345, § 8; T.C.A., § 23-3309; Acts 1983, ch. 199, § 1.
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 a governmental entity is removed for any injury caused by a defective, unsafe, or dangerous condition of any street, alley, sidewalk or highway, owned and controlled by such governmental entity. “Street” or “highway” includes traffic control devices thereon.
(2) This section shall not apply unless constructive and/or actual notice to the governmental entity of such condition be alleged and proved in addition to the procedural notice required by § 29-20-302 [repealed].
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.