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Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-51-104

Prohibition against trusty status for sexual offenders

Acts 2005, ch. 180, § 1.

(1) No person who has been convicted of an offense that will require the person to register as a sexual offender pursuant to title 40, chapter 39, part 2, and who is being housed in a county or municipal jail or workhouse, shall be eligible for, nor shall such person be placed on, trusty status.

(2) Subsection (a) is applicable regardless of whether the person is: Sentenced to the department of correction but is serving the sentence in a county or municipal jail or workhouse pursuant to contract or is sentenced to confinement in a county or municipal jail or workhouse; or

(3) Sentenced to the department of correction but is being housed in a county or municipal jail or workhouse while awaiting transfer to the department.

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.