Tennessee Code Title 47. Commercial Instruments and Transactions § 47-10-118

(1) The information systems council established under § 4-3-5501, shall further determine whether, and the extent to which, this state or any of its agencies and departments will send and accept electronic records and electronic signatures to and from other persons and otherwise create, generate, communicate, store, process, use, and rely upon electronic records and electronic signatures; and

(2) Subject to § 47-10-120, any local governmental public official, including but not limited to officials of counties, municipalities, utility districts, other local governmental entities and those offices enumerated under § 8-22-101, making determinations under § 47-10-117(b), shall each themselves further determine whether, and the extent to which, they will send and accept electronic records and electronic signatures to and from other persons and otherwise create, generate, communicate, store, process, use, and rely upon electronic records and electronic signatures.

(1) The manner and format in which the electronic records must be created, generated, sent, communicated, received, and stored and the systems established for those purposes;

(2) If electronic records must be signed by electronic means, the type of electronic signature required, the manner and format in which the electronic signature must be affixed to the electronic record, and the identity of, or criteria that must be met by, any third party used by a person filing a document to facilitate the process;

(3) Control processes and procedures as appropriate to ensure adequate preservation, disposition, integrity, security, confidentiality, and auditability of electronic records; and

(4) Any other required attributes for electronic records which are specified for corresponding non-electronic records or reasonably necessary under the circumstances.