2010 Tennessee Code
Title 2 - Elections
Chapter 4 - Election Officials
2-4-103 - Residence qualification of election officials.

2-4-103. Residence qualification of election officials.

(a)  Officers of elections, judges, machine operators, precinct registrars, and assistant precinct registrars shall be registered voters. They may serve at any polling place within the state house legislative district of which they are an inhabitant. Any person so appointed to a polling place that serves multiple state house legislative districts may perform such person's duties to each voter present in that polling place and eligible to vote in that polling place.

(b)  Inspectors shall be registered voters at a polling place in the county and shall be inhabitants of the county.

(c)  In counties having a population of less than six hundred thousand (600,000) according to the federal census of 1970 or any later federal census, the county election commission may appoint persons as precinct registrars who shall be registered voters at a polling place in the county and shall be inhabitants of the county.

(d)  (1)  In counties having a metropolitan form of government, the county election commission may appoint persons as precinct registrars who shall be registered voters at a polling place within each legislative district.

     (2)  Inspectors shall be registered voters at a polling place in the legislative district in those counties having a metropolitan form of government.

(e)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a county election commission may appoint as an election official a person who has reached the age of seventeen (17) years and who meets all other requirements to serve. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a high school student appointed as a poll official from receiving compensation in addition to having an excused absence.

[Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., § 2-403; Acts 1980, ch. 804, § 1; 2000, ch. 756, § 7; 2001, ch. 413, §§ 7, 8; 2003, ch. 374, § 1.]