2010 Tennessee Code
Title 8 - Public Officers And Employees
Chapter 50 - Miscellaneous Provisions
Part 1 - General Provisions
8-50-107 - Discrimination concerning employees of local government on basis of nonresidence prohibited Exceptions.

8-50-107. Discrimination concerning employees of local government on basis of nonresidence prohibited Exceptions.

(a)  Notwithstanding the provisions of any public law, private act, or municipal charter to the contrary, no person currently under employment with any municipality, county, or metropolitan form of government, shall be dismissed or penalized solely on the basis of nonresidence in such local government.

(b)  This section shall not apply to those counties having a metropolitan form of government.

(c)  The provisions of this section shall not apply to any county with a population of not less than two hundred seventy-five thousand (275,000) nor more than four hundred thousand (400,000) according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census.

[Acts 1977, ch. 52, §§ 1, 2; T.C.A., § 8-4135.]  

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