Nothing contained in this chapter, unless specifically provided, shall be construed as an admission or denial of liability or responsibility insofar as governmental entities are concerned. Wherein immunity from suit is removed by this chapter, consent to be sued is granted and liability of the governmental entity shall be determined as if the governmental entity were a private person.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-20-206
Construction of chapter as to liability — Effect of removal of immunity
Known as the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act
The act spans §§ 29–29 (44 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Doe a v. Coffee County Board of Education (1992)
Most recently applied in Hill v. Lamberth (October 2001)
Acts 1973, ch. 345, § 4; T.C.A., § 23-3312.
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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.
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.