Any agency rule not adopted in compliance with this chapter shall be void and of no effect and shall not be effective against any person or party nor shall it be invoked by the agency for any purpose.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-5-216
Invalidity of improperly adopted rules
Known as the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act
The act spans §§ 4-5-101 to 4-5-502 (69 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Mandela v. Campbell (1998)
Most recently applied in Craig Robert Nunn v. Tennessee Department of Correction (October 2017)
Acts 1982, ch. 874, § 25.
How often courts cite this section
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.
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.