Tennessee Statutes

§ 2-19-139 — Permitted expenses

Tennessee § 2-19-139

This text of Tennessee § 2-19-139 (Permitted expenses) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Tennessee primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-19-139 (2026).

Text

(a)Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a candidate in any political convention or in any primary or final election, or any person, from employing and maintaining a proper clerical or office force so employed and maintained in good faith, nor to prevent any political parties, candidates, nominees, and organizations from disseminating literature and defraying the expense of public speakers, nor from announcing any candidacy in any newspaper.
(b)Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the hiring of conveyances for voters who may be sick or otherwise unable to go to the polls; provided, that such expenses shall in no case exceed those allowed by law.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

Legislative History

Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., § 2-1947.

Nearby Sections

15
View on official source ↗

Cite This Page — Counsel Stack

Bluebook (online)
Tennessee § 2-19-139, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/tn/2-19-139.