{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-12-4-117","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 12-4-117","heading":"Residency and income requirements for employees prohibited - Exception - Definitions","body":"(a) Notwithstanding any state law to the contrary, neither the state, its political subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities thereof, or any local government shall require a company bidding or contracting to provide services on a public construction project to employ individuals who reside within the jurisdiction of the state or local government or who are within a specific income range, unless otherwise required by federal law. (b) For purposes of this section: (1) \"Local government\" means any municipality or county, including a county with a metropolitan form of government; and (2) \"Public construction project\" means any construction project wherein state or local government funds may be appropriated or expended for the purpose of erecting, remodeling, altering, repairing, demolishing, or making any addition to any building; or any construction project for the purpose of building, rebuilding, locating, relocating, or repairing any street, highway, or bridge. Added by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 587,s 1, eff. 3/10/2016.\n(a) Notwithstanding any state law to the contrary, neither the state, its political subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities thereof, or any local government shall require a company bidding or contracting to provide services on a public construction project to employ individuals who reside within the jurisdiction of the state or local government or who are within a specific income range, unless otherwise required by federal law.\n(b) For purposes of this section: (1) \"Local government\" means any municipality or county, including a county with a metropolitan form of government; and (2) \"Public construction project\" means any construction project wherein state or local government funds may be appropriated or expended for the purpose of erecting, remodeling, altering, repairing, demolishing, or making any addition to any building; or any construction project for the purpose of building, rebuilding, locating, relocating, or repairing any street, highway, or bridge.\n(1) \"Local government\" means any municipality or county, including a county with a metropolitan form of government; and\n(2) \"Public construction project\" means any construction project wherein state or local government funds may be appropriated or expended for the purpose of erecting, remodeling, altering, repairing, demolishing, or making any addition to any building; or any construction project for the purpose of building, rebuilding, locating, relocating, or repairing any street, highway, or bridge.","path":["TN Code","Title 12","Chapter 4"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"b7b744208a9529f5f1cc806e193bc867fe99bceb55523fb70f61e0acd58f330c","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-12-4-116","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-12-4-118","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}