Tennessee Code Title 10. Public Libraries, Archives and Records § 10-7-101

1 In Footnote 6 to Memphis Publishing Company v. Cherokee Children & Family Services, Inc., 87 S.W.3d 67 (Tenn. 2002), the Tennessee Supreme Court stated “[a]nother definition of ‘records' appears in Part 1 of the Act, which states that the term ‘shall be construed to mean any records of the county legislative body and common law, circuit, criminal, or chancery court, the register's books, the surveyor's and entry taker's book, and all other public records, required by law to be kept in the several courts of this state.’ Tenn.Code Ann. § 10-7-101 (1999). As the Court of Appeals noted in Creative Restaurants, Inc. v. City of Memphis, however, it is evident that the definition provided by this provision was not intended to apply to other parts of the Act, and indeed, it is possible that the inclusion of that statute as part of the Act may be ‘a compiler's error, occurring in the renumbering of the 1980 edition of the Code.’ 795 S.W.2d 672, 675 (Tenn.Ct.App. 1990).”