Title 50, Employer And Employee

The chapters of this title shall apply to every minor person who desires to perform artistic or creative services in the state, including minor persons who reside in the state and minor persons not residing in the state, as long as some or all of the services are to be provided o…

If a contract is approved by the appropriate court pursuant to this part, then the minor may not, either during minority or after reaching majority, disaffirm the contract on the ground of minority, nor may the minor assert that the minor's parent or guardian lacked the authority…

Application for an order pursuant to this part may be made by the minor, or the minor's parent, or legal guardian, or guardian ad litem appointed pursuant to this part. For the purposes of any proceeding under this part, a parent or legal guardian, as the case may be, entitled to…

(a) Approval under this part may be sought for a contract or agreement that is fully executed, is already in existence or under which the parties are currently performing. Approval may be effective as of the date upon which the contract has been executed, or the date when service…

Petition for contract approval under this part shall be filed with and, when granted, approved by the court handling probate matters for the county in which the minor resides, where the minor is employed or where the minor performs or renders the minor's services, or intends to d…

After a petition is filed pursuant to § 50-5-208, and following reasonable notice to all parties to the contract as is fixed by the court, the court will provide all parties to the contract with the opportunity to appear and be heard. The court may approve the contract following …

Court approval of a valid contract shall serve to bind the minor as if the minor executed the contract personally as an adult; and the minor shall be bound to all provisions including the permanent sale of intellectual property rights; provided, however, that the revocation of ap…

Contracts eligible for approval under this part shall include contracts pursuant to which a minor person is employed, employs, or agrees to perform or render artistic or creative services, either directly or through a third party including, without limitation, a personal services…

(a) Modifications, amendments, or assignments of contracts previously approved by the court are deemed a new contract and require separate approval under this part. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), this section does not require court approval if the employing company assigns i…

(a) At any time after the filing of the petition, the court in its discretion may appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the interests of the minor or to oversee the minor's earnings related to the contract approved under this part. The court shall appoint a guardian ad litem a…

(a) A parent, guardian, or legal custodian entitled to the physical custody, care, and control of a minor who enters into a contract of a type described in this part shall provide a certified copy of the minor's birth certificate indicating the minor's minority to the other party…

(1) The following persons, other than one who is the petitioner or who joins in the petition, shall be served with the petition by formal notice, as prescribed by Rule 4 of the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure:(1) The minor;(2) The minor's legal custodian or guardian ad litem, …

At the court's discretion, the hearing may be held in the court's chambers or courtroom. The proceeding shall be of record and may be sealed, if the court determines that sealing the record will be in the best interests of the minor.

The minor, unless excused by the court for good cause shown, shall attend personally before the court upon the hearing of the petition.

(a) The court at the hearing or on an adjournment of the hearing, may by its order do any of the following:(1) Approve or disapprove the contract or proposed contract;(2) Approve the contract upon such conditions, with respect to modification of the terms of the contract or other…

(a) The court shall ensure that any contract it approves contains all the requirements for the rendering of services of the minor and that the petition includes a plan for the protection of earnings under the contract. (b) The court shall consider the following when determining t…

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, in an order approving a minor's contract as described in this part, the court shall require that fifteen percent (15%) of the minor's gross earnings pursuant to the contract be set aside by the minor's employer in trust and shall be paid t…

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Account holder” means a person who has an account or profile to use an online platform;(2) “Content creation” means the act of sharing video content filmed in this state on an online platform in exchange for compensation;(3) “Content creator”:(A) Mea…

(a) A minor is engaged in the work of content creation if the following criteria are met at any time during the previous twelve-month period:(1) At least thirty percent (30%) of a content creator's compensated video content produced within a thirty-day period included the likenes…

(a) A content creator whose video content features a minor who is fourteen (14) years of age or older, but under eighteen (18) years of age, engaged in the work of content creation as described in § 50-5-302(a) shall maintain the following records and retain the records until the…

(a) A content creator shall compensate a minor who is engaged in the work of content creation under § 50-5-302(a) in accordance with this section. The content creator shall set aside gross earnings on the video content that includes the likeness, name, or photograph of the minor …

(a) In addition to the civil action provided in § 50-5-304(c), the minor may commence a civil action against a content creator for injunctive relief or other relief the court finds just and equitable to enforce this part. (b) The powers and remedies provided in this part are cumu…

(a) A waiver or limitation, or a purported waiver or limitation, of a protection or requirement provided under this part is void as unlawful and against public policy. (b) A court, arbitrator, or tribunal shall not enforce or give effect to a waiver or limitation described in sub…

(a) Video content containing the likeness of a minor must be deleted and removed from an online platform by the person who shared the content, the account holder, or another person who has control over the account when the request is made by a minor who is fourteen (14) years of …

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a person shall not knowingly produce or distribute publicly, including by computer, a visual depiction of a minor with the intent to sexually gratify or elicit a sexual response in the viewer or any other person and benefit financially fr…

This part is known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Self-Insurers' Guaranty Association Act.”

The purpose of this part is to provide a mechanism for the payment of self-insured workers' compensation claims to avoid excessive delay in payment and to avoid financial loss to claimants because of the insolvency of a self-insured employer, and to provide an association to asse…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Association” means the Tennessee self-insurers' guaranty association;(2) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of commerce and insurance;(3) “Insolvent self-insurer” means any member self-insurer as to whom the …

(a) There is created a nonprofit unincorporated legal entity to be known as the Tennessee self-insurers' guaranty association. To the extent that this part conflicts with the Tennessee Nonprofit Corporation Act, compiled in title 48, chapters 51-69, this part controls; however, t…

(a) The board of directors of the association consists of five (5) persons serving three-year terms, with each director having one (1) vote. The commissioner shall select the members of the board. The commissioner, or the commissioner's delegate, shall serve on the board in an ex…

(a) The association shall:(1) Adopt procedures to prevent dissemination of confidential information;(2) Maintain cash, readily marketable securities, or other assets, or a line of credit, approved by the commissioner, sufficient to immediately continue the payment of the compensa…

(a) The commissioner shall promptly notify the association in writing that a member self-insurer has failed to timely pay workers' compensation liabilities when due. The notification must be issued to the member self-insurer and the association. Upon receipt of such notice by the…

(a) As used in this section, “insolvent self-insurer” includes the entity to which the certificate of authority was issued, any guarantor of the entity's liabilities under the certificate, and any employer who obtained employees from the insolvent self-insurer. (b) The associatio…

No later than July 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the association shall assess each of its members a pro rata share of the funding necessary to carry out the purposes of this part. The association shall take any action deemed appropriate to collect any delinquent assessments. …

This chapter shall be cited to as the “Workers' Compensation Law” and shall be controlling for any claim for workers' compensation benefits for an injury, as defined in this chapter, when the date of injury is on or after July 1, 2014. All claims having a date of injury prior to …

(a) The association shall establish minimum security deposit amounts for each member self-insurer. All security deposits must be posted with the association. (b) The association shall return to a self-insured employer all individual security determined to be in excess of that nee…

(a) No later than July 1, 2024, the association shall submit to the commissioner a plan of operation and any amendments thereto necessary or suitable to assure the fair, reasonable, and equitable administration of the association. The plan of operation and any amendments thereto …

The board of directors may, upon majority vote, make reports to the commissioner upon any matter germane to the solvency or default of any member self-insurer.

(a) The association is subject to examination and regulation by the commissioner. (b) The board of directors shall submit, not later than March 30 of each year, a financial report for the preceding calendar year in a form approved by the commissioner.

The association is exempt from payment of all fees, except examination fees, and all taxes levied by this state or any of its subdivisions, except taxes levied on real or personal property.

A member self-insurer, the association, or agents, employees, or the board of directors of the association, or the commissioner or the commissioner's representative, is not liable, and a cause of action does not arise against such individuals or entities, for any action taken by …

(a) As an alternative to each employer securing its own incurred liabilities, the association shall provide in its plan of operation for a risk-based security program whereby all member self-insurers designated for participation by the association collectively secure their aggreg…

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Administrator” means the chief administrative officer of the bureau of workers' compensation of the department of labor and workforce development;(2) “AMA guides” means the 6th edition of the American Medical…

Every employer and employee subject to this chapter, shall, respectively, pay and accept compensation for personal injury or death by accident arising primarily out of and in the course and scope of employment without regard to fault as a cause of the injury or death; provided, t…

(a) Any officer of a corporation may elect to be exempt from the operation of this chapter. (b) An officer who elects exemption from this chapter shall give written notice to the corporation of the officer's intent not to be covered by this chapter on a form prescribed by the bur…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as amending or repealing any statute or municipal ordinance relating to associations or funds for the relief, pensioning, retirement or other benefit of any employees of the municipal employer, or of the surviving spouses, children or de…