Title 4, State Government

(a) The administrative judge or hearing officer shall regulate the course of the proceedings, in conformity with the prehearing order if any. (b) To the extent necessary for full disclosure of all relevant facts and issues, the administrative judge or hearing officer shall afford…

(1) In contested cases:(1) The agency shall admit and give probative effect to evidence admissible in a court, and when necessary to ascertain facts not reasonably susceptible to proof under the rules of court, evidence not admissible thereunder may be admitted if it is of a type…

(a) An agency with statutory authority to decide a contested case shall render a final order. (b) If an administrative judge or hearing officer hears a case alone under § 4-5-301(a)(2), the administrative judge or hearing officer shall render an initial order, which shall become …

(a) The agency upon the agency's motion may, and where provided by federal law or upon appeal by any party shall, review an initial order, except to the extent that:(1) A statute or rule of the agency precludes or limits agency review of the initial order; or(2) The agency in the…

A party may submit to the agency a petition for stay of effectiveness of an initial or final order within seven (7) days after its entry unless otherwise provided by statute or stated in the initial or final order. The agency may take action on the petition for stay, either befor…

(a) A party, within fifteen (15) days after entry of an initial or final order, may file a petition for reconsideration, stating the specific grounds upon which relief is requested. A petition for reconsideration of a final order that has become a final order by operation of law …

(a) Unless a later date is stated in an initial or final order, or a stay is granted, an initial or final order shall become effective upon entry of the initial or final order. All initial and final orders shall state when the order is entered and effective. (b) If the agency has…

(a) An agency shall maintain an official record of each contested case under this chapter. The record shall be maintained for a period of time not less than three (3) years; provided, that the department of labor and workforce development shall be required to maintain the record …

(a) When the grant, denial, or renewal of a license is required to be preceded by notice and opportunity for hearing, the provisions of this chapter concerning contested cases apply. (b) When a licensee has made timely and sufficient application for the renewal of a license or a …

(a) There is created in the office of the secretary of state a division to be known as the administrative procedures division. This division has the responsibility to:(1) Investigate any conflicts or inequities that may develop between federal administrative procedures, and state…

(a) (1) A person who is aggrieved by a final decision in a contested case is entitled to judicial review under this chapter, which shall be the only available method of judicial review. A preliminary, procedural or intermediate agency action or ruling is immediately reviewable if…

(a) An aggrieved party may obtain a review of any final judgment of the chancery court under this chapter by appeal to the court of appeals of Tennessee. (b) The record certified to the chancery court and the record in the chancery court shall constitute the record in an appeal. …

(a) Each person employed to serve as an administrative judge or hearing officer within the executive branch shall, within the six-month period following the date of such employment, participate in a program of training for administrative judges and hearing officers conducted by t…

(a) (1) When a state agency issues a notice to a person, local governmental entity, board, or commission for the violation of a rule or statute and the notice results in a contested case hearing, at the conclusion of the contested case hearing, the hearing officer or administrati…

In interpreting a state statute or rule, a court presiding over the appeal of a judgment in a contested case shall not defer to a state agency's interpretation of the statute or rule and shall interpret the statute or rule de novo. After applying all customary tools of interpreta…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Regulatory Flexibility Act of 2007.”

(a) Prior to initiating the rulemaking process as described in §§ 4-5-202(a)(2) and 4-5-203(a), all agencies shall conduct a review as to if a rule affects small businesses. (b) Each agency shall, after June 21, 2007, employ a regulatory flexibility analysis utilizing regulatory …

(1) As part of the rulemaking process for any rule being proposed that may have an impact on small businesses, each agency shall prepare an economic impact statement as an addendum for each rule that is deemed to affect small businesses, which shall be published in the Tennessee …

This part shall not apply to rules that are adopted on an emergency basis under part 2 of this chapter, that are federally mandated, or that substantially codify existing state or federal law.

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Entry regulation” means:(A) Any rule promulgated by a licensing authority for the purpose of regulating an occupational or professional group, including, but not limited to, any rule prescribing qualifications or requirements for a person's entry int…

(a) (1) No later than December 31, 2016, each licensing authority shall submit a copy of all existing or pending entry regulations pertaining to the licensing authority and an aggregate list of such entry regulations to the chairs of the government operations committees of the se…