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Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-5-231

Rules or policies that infringe on agency member's free speech prohibited — Power to remove member

Known as the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act

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

Acts 2018, ch. 929, § 3.

(1) No agency created by statute and subject to review under chapter 29 of this title shall promulgate rules or implement policies that infringe on an agency member's freedom of speech in violation of the Constitution of Tennessee, Article I, § 19, or the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

(2) An agency's appointing authority shall have sole power to remove a member from a board, commission, council, committee, authority, task force, or other similar multi-member agency created by statute and subject to review under chapter 29 of this title. This subsection (b) shall not impair the ability of the general assembly to reconstitute, restructure, or reestablish such agency.

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.