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Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-15-101

Creation — Membership — Terms

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case State Ex Rel. Commissioner of Transportation v. Medicine Bird Black Bear White Eagle (2001)

Most recently applied in Tennessee Environmental Council v. Water Quality Control Board (September 2007)

Acts 1955, ch. 304, § 1; 1967, ch. 111, § 1; T.C.A., § 4-1501; Acts 1980, ch. 741, § 2; 1982, ch. 810, § 5; 1982, ch. 915, §§ 1, 2.

(1) There is created a state building commission composed of seven (7) ex officio members who shall be the governor, the secretary of state, the comptroller of the treasury, the state treasurer, the commissioner of finance and administration, the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives.

(2) The governor shall serve as chair and the commission shall elect from its membership a vice chair and secretary.

(3) The attorney general and reporter shall serve as legal counsel to the commission in accordance with the requirements of § 8-6-301.

(4) In the event that the voting membership of any ex officio members is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or invalid, they shall continue as ex officio nonvoting members, and in addition, the senate and house of representatives shall by joint resolution appoint another person or persons to be a voting member or members.

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.