Chapter Definitions

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As used in this chapter:

  1. “Non-depository publication” means printed and electronic publications not collected by state depository libraries, including, but not limited to:
    1. Ephemeral materials, such as business cards, stationery, invitations, postcards, and flyers;
    2. Publications created for state agency internal use, such as handbooks, manuals, conference items of temporary use, instructional items, and agendas;
    3. Agency materials not distributed outside of the creating agency, such as working papers, internal newsletters, internal memoranda, and confidential material; and
    4. Reprints of federal materials;
  2. “Publication” includes any newsletter, stationery, greeting card, report, or printed or electronic material produced in any format for distribution outside the creating department or agency, including those published by facilities not operated by the state; and
    1. “State depository publication” includes:
      1. The acts and journals of the general assembly, the reports of the supreme court, and such other courts that have their decisions reported by the attorney general and reporter, or that are required to be reported by any act or resolution of the general assembly;
      2. The regularly published reports of officers of this state and any special reports that may from time to time be published by state officers or committees of the general assembly or other committees provided for by law, including, but not limited to:
  1. Public and private acts;
  2. Court reports and opinions;
  3. Rules and regulations;
  4. Budget, revenue, and tax report documents;
  5. Annual and biennial reports;
  6. Vital statistics, court statistics, and census reports;
  7. Periodic and special reports;
  8. State plans and strategic plans;
  9. Tennessee Blue Book;
  10. Fact books;
  11. Maps;
  12. Magazines;
  13. External newsletters (those available for public information); and
  14. Such other reports or statements published under the authority of the state, or any official thereof; and

“State depository publication” does not include non-depository publications.

Code 1858, § 22 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 2, § 9); Shan., § 40; Acts 1923, ch. 101, § 2; Code 1932, § 69; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 12-601; Acts 1981, ch. 191, § 1; 1984, ch. 798, § 2; 2019, ch. 8, § 1.

Amendments. The 2019 amendment rewrote the section, which read: “Each member of the general assembly is entitled to one (1) copy of the printed acts of the general assembly of which such person was a member, which shall be delivered to such member's legislative office in Nashville, but only upon written request to the secretary of state by such member not later than February 1 of each year.”

Effective Dates. Acts 2019, ch. 8, § 9. March 13, 2019.

Cross-References. English deemed official and legal language, §4-1-404.


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