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Tennessee Code Title 4. State Government § 4-55-102

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The board of directors of the bureau of ethics and campaign finance shall appoint a full-time executive director who serves at the pleasure of the board of directors. The assistant director and general counsel, if any, must be employed on recommendation of the executive director with the approval of the board. All other employees of the bureau are employed by the executive director. The executive director and all other employees of the bureau shall constitute the staff of the bureau and its two (2) divisions. The board of directors of the bureau may call on the office of the state coordinator of elections for such advice, documents, or services as it may require.

(b) Employees of the bureau shall not possess state service status, but the employees shall be subject to personnel policies applicable to state employees generally, such as leave, compensation, classification and travel requests.

(c) Neither the executive director nor any other employee of the bureau, nor any member of an employee's immediate family as defined in § 3-6-301, shall, during the period of such employment:

(1) Be allowed to hold or qualify for elective office to any state or local public office as defined in § 2-10-102;

(2) Be an officer of any political party or political committee;

(3) Permit the employee's name to be used or make contributions in support of or in opposition to any candidate or proposition, except that an employee's immediate family may make campaign contributions in support of or in opposition to any candidate or proposition;

(4) Participate in any way in any election campaign;

(5) Lobby or employ a lobbyist; provided, that this subdivision (c)(5) shall not prohibit the executive director from the performance of the executive director's duties; or

(6) Be employed by any elected officeholder, either in an official capacity or as an individual, or be employed by any business in which an elected officeholder has any direct input concerning employment decisions.

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