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Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-11-102

Effect of criminal code

Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case State v. Hill (1997)

Most recently applied in State v. Jackson (September 2005)

Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.

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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.

(1) Conduct does not constitute an offense unless it is defined as an offense by statute, municipal ordinance, or rule authorized by and lawfully adopted under a statute.

(2) Parts 1-6 of this chapter apply to offenses defined by other laws, unless otherwise provided by law.

(3) This title does not bar, suspend, or otherwise affect any right or liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture, or other remedy authorized by law to be recovered or enforced in a civil suit for conduct the criminal code defines as an offense, and the civil injury is not merged into the offense.

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.