2010 Tennessee Code
Title 4 - State Government
Chapter 3 - Creation, Organization and Powers of Administrative Departments and Divisions
Part 20 - Department of Safety
4-3-2006 - Division of protective services.
4-3-2006. Division of protective services.
(a) (1) There is created within the department of safety a division of protective services.
(2) This division shall exercise the powers and duties formerly imposed upon the department of general services to provide police services by sworn officers for the State Capitol, the Legislative Plaza, the War Memorial Building and all state office buildings in Davidson County, and to provide personal security from time to time of state officials as directed by the commissioner, along with the primary, but not exclusive, responsibility of enforcing the parking regulations and policies as established by the department of general services.
(b) (1) The commissioner of safety shall be authorized to issue special police commissions to qualified state security personnel, who are full-time salaried employees of the state of Tennessee, to go armed or carry pistols while on active duty engaged in carrying out their responsibilities under subsection (a).
(2) Such commissions shall only be issued to those personnel who have satisfactorily completed appropriate training and are certified as qualified, including physical and mental competency, to carry firearms by the Jerry F. Agee Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy or other similar agency; provided, that security personnel employed before July 1, 1980, shall not be required to meet the training or mental and physical requirements set out in this subdivision (b)(2) as a condition of tenure or continued employment, nor shall their failure to fulfill such requirements make them ineligible for any promotional examination for which they are otherwise eligible.
(3) Nothing contained herein shall be construed to impose upon such security personnel the same criteria for employment and retention in state service as are required of members of the Tennessee highway patrol.
[Impl. am. 1979, ch. 93, § 1; Acts 1980, ch. 884, § 1.]
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