(a) Each agency shall make available for inspection and copying:

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 4-5-218

  • Agency: means each state board, commission, committee, department, officer, or any other unit of state government authorized or required by any statute or constitutional provision to make rules or to determine contested cases. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any character, including another agency. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
  • Policy: means any statement, document, or guideline prepared or issued by any agency pursuant to its delegated authority that merely defines or explains the meaning of a statute or a rule. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) Agency rules, final orders and decisions;
(2) Written statements of policy or interpretations formulated, adopted or used by the agency in the discharge of its functions;
(3) Opinions of the attorney general and reporter rendered to the agency; and
(4) A description of its current organization stating the general course and method of its operation and the methods whereby the public may obtain information or make submissions or requests.
(b) The agency may charge reasonable compensatory fees for providing any documents specified in this section to requesting persons.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit access to public documents under any other provision of law.
(d) The segregable portion of any document or other agency record specified in this section shall be provided to any person requesting such document or record after deletion of the portions that are confidential under any provision of law and payment of reasonable compensatory fees to the agency.
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