Title 10, Public Libraries, Archives and Records

(a) In all cases where any person has the right to inspect any such public records, such person shall have the right to take extracts or make copies thereof, and to make photographs or photostats of the same while such records are in the possession, custody and control of the law…

Any public official having charge or custody of or control over any public records of convictions of traffic violations or any other state, county or municipal public offenses shall make available to any citizen, upon request, during regular office hours, a copy or copies of any …

(a) The secretary of state or the secretary of state’s designated representative, the state librarian and archivist, and the comptroller of the treasury or the comptroller's designated representative for purposes of audit, shall be accorded access to and may examine and receive a…

(a) The disposition of all state records shall occur only through the process of an approved records disposition authorization. (b) Records authorized for destruction shall be disposed of according to the records disposition authorization and shall not be given to any unauthorize…

(a) The district attorney general of a judicial district, after giving written notice of the proposed transfer prior to such transfer to the presiding officer of the legislative body in which such record, document or evidence is located, may permanently transfer custody and owner…

Responsibility for providing trained staff and appropriate equipment necessary to produce and store microfilm reproductions of official, permanent value bound volume records created by the various county and municipal governments of the state is hereby vested in the state library…

(a) On or before July 1, 2000, the state or any agency, institution, or political subdivision thereof that operates or maintains an electronic mail communications system shall adopt a written policy on any monitoring of electronic mail communications and the circumstances under w…

(a) This section applies to a military veteran's department of defense form DD-214 or other military discharge record that is recorded with or that otherwise comes into the possession of a governmental body. (b) The record is confidential for the seventy-five (75) years following…

A county register shall not cause a military discharge record recorded in the office of the county register to be viewed over the internet except through a subscription service approved by the county register.

(a) The preparer of any document recorded in the office of the county register of deeds shall not place personally identifying information on any document filed or recorded in the office of the county register of deeds, other than a power of attorney. However, the county register…

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any information relating to security systems for any property including, but not limited to, all records pertaining to licensure or registration by owners of such systems, information, photos, presentations, schematics, surveys, or a…

(a) Any legislation of the house of representatives that creates an exception to the open records requirement of § 10-7-503 deeming records of public entities to be open for inspection by the public must be referred to the government operations committee according to the rules of…

Sections 10-7-601 — 10-7-606 shall be known and may be cited as the “Open Appointments Act.”

(1) As used in §§ 10-7-601 — 10-7-606, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) (A) “Agency” means a state board, commission, council, committee, authority, task force, or other similar multi-member agency created by statute, having state-wide jurisdiction;(B) “Agency” does not …

(1) The chair of an existing agency, or the appointing authority for the members of a newly created agency, shall provide the secretary of state, on forms prepared and distributed by the secretary of state, with the following data pertaining to that agency:(1) The name of the age…

The secretary of state shall annually compile an update of the required data listed in § 10-7-603. On or about November 15 of each year, the secretary of state shall publish the compiled data from all agencies, excluding the personal mailing addresses and telephone numbers of mem…

The chair of an existing agency shall notify the secretary of a vacancy scheduled to occur in the agency as a result of the expiration of membership terms, at least forty-five (45) days before the vacancy occurs. The chair of an existing agency shall give written notification to …

(1) Together with the compilation required in § 10-7-604, the secretary shall annually deliver to the governor and the general assembly a report containing the following information:(1) The number of vacancies occurring in the preceding year;(2) The number of vacancies occurring …

(a) It is the intent of the general assembly to recognize the importance of balance in the appointment of minority and non-minority persons to membership on statutorily created decision-making and regulatory boards, commissions, councils, and committees, and to promote that balan…

All documents, papers, records, books of account, and minutes of the governing body of any municipal corporation, or of any office or department of any municipal corporation, within the definition of “permanent records,” “essential records,” and/or “records of archival value,” as…

(a) The municipal technical advisory service, a unit of the Institute for Public Service of the University of Tennessee, is authorized to compile and print, in cooperation with the state library and archives, records retention manuals which shall be used as guides by municipal of…