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Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-104

Effective consent

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case State v. Cattone (1998)

Most recently applied in State v. Cattone (April 1998)

Acts 1992, ch. 673, § 1.

When conduct is charged to constitute an offense under this part because it causes or threatens bodily injury, effective consent to such conduct or to the infliction of such injury is a defense, if:

(1) The bodily injury consented to or threatened by the conduct consented to is not serious bodily injury; or

(2) The conduct and the harm are reasonably foreseeable hazards: Of joint participation in a lawful athletic contest or competitive sport; or

(3) For any concerted activity of a kind not forbidden by law.

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.