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Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-5-103

Construction of chapter

Known as the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act

The act spans §§ 4-5-101 to 4-5-502 (69 sections).

Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Colonial Pipeline Co. v. Morgan (2008)

Most recently applied in Colonial Pipeline Co. v. Morgan (September 2008)

Acts 1974, ch. 725, § 19; 1975, ch. 370, § 15; 1978, ch. 938, §§ 14, 15; T.C.A., §§ 4-525, 4-5-119; Acts 1982, ch. 874, §§ 2, 25, 26; 2016, ch. 859, § 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) This chapter shall not be construed as in derogation of the common law, but as remedial legislation designed to clarify and bring uniformity to the procedure of state administrative agencies and judicial review of their determination and shall be applied accordingly.

(2) Administrative agencies shall have no inherent or common law powers, and shall only exercise the powers conferred on them by statute or by the federal or state constitutions.

(3) This chapter does not repeal § 65-2-110, and where there is a conflict between this chapter and that section, that section shall control. In any other case of conflict between this chapter and any statute, whether general or specific, this chapter shall control; however, compliance with the procedures prescribed by this chapter does not obviate the necessity of complying with procedures prescribed by other provisions of this code.

(4) Nothing in this chapter shall be held to modify or repeal the statutes with respect to payment of taxes under protest and suits for the recovery thereof.

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.