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Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-29-201

Application

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Tenn.Conference of the NAACP v. William Lee (2024)

Most recently applied in Tenn. State Conference of the NAACP v. William Lee (June 2025)

Acts 2006, ch. 860, § 1.

(1) The provisions and procedures of this part shall apply to and govern restoration of the right of suffrage in this state to any person who has been disqualified from exercising that right by reason of a conviction in any state or federal court of an infamous crime.

(2) This part shall apply to any person convicted of an infamous crime after May 18, 1981.

(3) This part shall apply only to restoration of the right of suffrage. For restoration of all other rights of citizenship forfeited as the result of a conviction for an infamous crime, part 1 of this chapter shall apply.

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.