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Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-16-106

Exceptions and defenses

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case State v. Adams (2005)

Most recently applied in State v. Adams (June 2005)

Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.

(1) It is an exception to the application of §§ 39-16-102, 39-16-104 and 39-16-105, that the benefit involved is a fee prescribed by law to be received by a public servant or any other benefit to which the public servant is lawfully entitled.

(2) It is a defense to prosecution under §§ 39-16-102, 39-16-104 and 39-16-105, that the benefit involved was: A trivial benefit incidental to personal, professional, or business contacts, which involves no substantial risk of undermining official impartiality; or

(3) A lawful contribution made for the political campaign of an elective public servant when the public servant is a candidate for nomination or election to public office.

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.