Title 8, Public Officers And Employees

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the commissioner of human resources, in consultation with the commissioner of finance and administration, the state treasurer and other affected agency heads, may develop and implement a plan to employ nurses under which an employee may ac…

(a) For purposes other than determining compensation for the various county officers enumerated in § 8-24-102, the counties are divided into classes as follows:(1) Counties having a population of four hundred thousand (400,000) or more shall constitute counties of the first class…

(a) For the purposes of determining the compensation to be received by the various county officers, “general officers” includes assessors of property, county clerks, clerks and masters of chancery courts, clerks of probate courts, clerks of circuit courts, clerks of general sessi…

(a) (1) The county legislative body in any county shall make the necessary appropriation and pay to the sheriff of its county the maximum salary fixed by § 8-24-102, and the authorized expenses fixed by law for the operation of the sheriff's office, including the salary of all th…

(a) Each official whose salary is required to be supplemented from the county general fund shall keep a book account of all fees collected and make an annual report of the collections to the county mayor. No funds shall be paid from the general funds of the county to supplement s…

If the total fees collected by the officials enumerated in § 8-22-101, after deduction for the legally authorized expenses of the office, including, but not limited to, salaries of deputies and assistants, are not sufficient to pay the salary required by § 8-24-102, then the rema…

(a) In the event that the fees, etc., collected by the sheriffs in any of the counties within §§ 8-24-101 – 8-24-103 and 8-24-106 – 8-24-109 do not in any month amount to a sum sufficient to pay all other necessary and legitimate expenses incurred in the proper and efficient admi…

(a) If in any county there is, or may hereafter be created, a special chancery, circuit, criminal, county or probate court where the clerk and master or clerk is clerk of the special court by virtue of such clerk's office in the county, no additional salary shall be allowed such …

The county legislative bodies of the different counties shall, at their first session in each and every year, make such allowance as they, in their discretion, think sufficient to compensate their sheriffs for ex officio service.

Sections 8-24-102, this section and 8-24-114 shall not be construed to repeal or modify in any way any private act of the state fixing any salary of any county mayor in an amount greater than the minimum salaries set out in § 8-24-102. In determining whether the salary of any suc…

The county legislative bodies of the various counties are hereby granted authority to fix the salary of any county mayor in an amount in excess of the amount guaranteed in § 8-24-102 or § 8-24-113.

The compensation of county commissioners of any county having a population of not less than one hundred thousand (100,000) nor more than six hundred thousand (600,000), according to the United States census of 1970, shall be not less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a …

This part shall be known as the “Government Employees Deferred Compensation Plan Act,” and may be so cited.

For the purposes of this part, “employee” means any person, whether appointed, elected, or under contract wherein an employee-employer relationship is established, providing services for the state of Tennessee, state agencies, counties, municipalities, or subdivisions of such gov…

(a) The state of Tennessee or any Tennessee political subdivision or instrumentality of such subdivision may, by contract, agree with any employee to defer, in whole or in part, any portion of that employee's income and may subsequently purchase or contract with any company licen…

(a) (1) The responsibility for implementing any deferred or tax-sheltered compensation plans maintained on behalf of employees of institutions of higher education pursuant to § 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 403(b)) shall be delegated to the chair of the board o…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the chair of the consolidated retirement board, and the appropriately designated local officer or local board responsible for implementing a deferred compensation program are hereby authorized to invest the moneys held pursuant t…

A plan established by this part shall exist and serve in addition to other retirement, pension, or benefit systems established by the state of Tennessee, state agencies, counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions. A deferred compensation plan established by this pa…

Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, and except as provided in § 8-34-101(14)(D), any compensation deferred under this part must be considered part of an employee's compensation for purposes of another employee retirement, pension, or benefit program. A deferral of income…

Notwithstanding this part or another law to the contrary, any sum deferred under the deferred compensation program shall not be included for the purposes of computation of any federal income taxes withheld on behalf of any employee, unless the deferred sum is designated by the em…

(a) Any medical records submitted to, or compiled by, any person or entity providing deferred compensation plan services pursuant to this part are confidential and shall not be disclosed except as follows:(1) To the extent that the employee or the employee's legal representative …

(a) Except as provided in subsection (e), when a subpoena duces tecum is served upon a person or entity administering or providing services to a deferred compensation plan established pursuant to this part in an action or proceeding in which the person or entity is not a party, a…

(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any governmental entity as defined in subsection (b) may elect to become a participating employer in any deferred compensation program established on behalf of state employees under this part or under part 3 of this chapter; provided, …

(a) Counsel for the treasury department shall serve as the attorney for the chair of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system with respect to any deferred or tax-sheltered compensation plans established pursuant to this chapter on behalf of state employees, including employee…

The trustees of any deferred or tax sheltered compensation plans established pursuant to this part are expressly authorized to contract for investment management services, personal services, professional services and consultant services for the deferred compensation programs. The…

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any deferred compensation program established on behalf of state employees under this part or under part 3 of this chapter shall honor claims under a qualified domestic relations order at a time designated by the state treasurer. For…

(a) The state treasurer may inquire with local governments and volunteer fire departments about establishing a length of service award program pursuant to § 457 of the Internal Revenue Code as amended, and all applicable rules, regulations, notices, and interpretations released b…

(a) The state treasurer, with the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration, may adopt a new feature to one (1) or more of the state's deferred compensation plans, which plans include, but are not limited to, the 401(k), 403(b), and 457(b) plans that would permit…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Optional Retirement Program for Employees of Public Institutions of Higher Education.”

There is established an optional retirement program for employees of public institutions of higher education operated by the board of regents and the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee.

(a) The commissioner of finance and administration, the chair of the finance, ways and means committee of the senate, the chair of the finance, ways and means committee of the house of representatives, and the chair of the consolidated retirement board shall serve as trustees of …

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any individual who is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq.) and who is employed in a state-supported institution of higher education, including, but not limited to, the Tennessee colleges of applied t…

(a) The employer shall make employer contributions at the rate of ten percent (10%) of each eligible employee's earnable compensation, plus one percent (1%) of the part of the eligible employee's earnable compensation in excess of the employee's covered compensation. (b) The amou…

(a) Any employee or any spouse or any non-spousal beneficiary of an active, inactive, or retired employee who is eligible for a lump sum payment under this part may request the relevant optional retirement company to rollover the taxable portion of such payment directly to an eli…

(a) When any eligible employee in an optional retirement program retires with retirement credit in the retirement system, the employee's retirement allowance from the retirement system shall be computed and paid in accordance with chapters 34 – 37 of this title. (b) Employees who…

(a) An eligible employee who elects to participate in an optional retirement program established under this part will be ineligible to participate in the retirement system during such period as the employee is employed by a state-supported institution of higher education. (b) Whi…

Any employee participating in an optional retirement program whose benefits are limited to those of that program pursuant to § 8-25-207, may authorize the transfer of the employee's accumulated contributions deposited with the retirement system to such optional retirement program…

Any optional retirement program established pursuant to this part shall honor claims under a qualified domestic relations order. For purposes of this section, “qualified domestic relations order” has the same meaning ascribed to it in Section 414(p) of the federal Internal Revenu…

Upon retiring or otherwise terminating employment, an employee participating in an optional retirement program may elect to receive a cash withdrawal of such employee's accumulated account or accounts if permitted by the relevant optional retirement product and the Internal Reven…

Any member of the retirement system who participated in the optional retirement program and received a limited lump sum distribution of contributions pursuant to [former] § 8-25-205(c)(1) [repealed] shall be entitled to establish service and salary credit in the retirement system…

(1) A person returning to service on other than a full-time basis in a position covered by the optional retirement program or the Tennessee consolidated retirement system may take or continue taking distributions from the optional retirement program during the period of reemploym…

The state treasurer is directed to develop and obtain internal revenue service approval of a profit sharing or salary reduction plan for state employees as permitted by the internal revenue service. The responsibility for implementation of the plan for employees of institutions o…

As used in this part, “profit” means the excess revenue over expenditures prior to the expenditure of the amount which may be optionally made available for employees in cash or placed in trust by the state on behalf of the employees under the plan.

(a) (1) Subject to subsection (c), the state shall provide for employer matching of contributions to the plan on behalf of participating state employees who are eligible to participate in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, or the optional retirement program established…

(a) Any political subdivision or instrumentality of the state, by resolution or ordinance of its governing body, is authorized to make available to its employees a profit sharing or salary reduction plan approved by the internal revenue service. (b) Any entity other than a politi…

(a) Counsel for the treasury department shall serve as the attorney for the treasurer with respect to the plan. (b) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, in cases where the interests of the plan requires additional counsel, the treasurer, with the approval of the attorney gene…