Tennessee § 38-8-125 Government participation in certain voluntary motor vehicle checkpoints and stops prohibited

Tennessee Statutes

§ 38-8-125 — Government participation in certain voluntary motor vehicle checkpoints and stops prohibited

Tennessee § 38-8-125

Title38

This text of Tennessee § 38-8-125 (Government participation in certain voluntary motor vehicle checkpoints and stops prohibited) 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. § 38-8-125 (2026).

Text

(a)"Human sample" means a cheek swab, blood or urine sample, saliva, hair or any other bodily fluid or exemplar from which the DNA of the donor may be derived and identified and for which a law enforcement officer would be required to seek a search warrant to obtain such sample.

(b)No state, county, municipal or metropolitan form of government law enforcement officer shall participate in, lend assistance to, or be present in any official capacity at any voluntary motor vehicle checkpoint or stop conducted by a private company or research group to collect a human sample from consenting motorists stopped at the checkpoint for research or statistical purposes.

(c)Subsection (b) is applicable regardless of whether the checkpoint is funded by federal grant or contract with a federal agency a

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

(a) "Human sample" means a cheek swab, blood or urine sample, saliva, hair or any other bodily fluid or exemplar from which the DNA of the donor may be derived and identified and for which a law enforcement officer would be required to seek a search warrant to obtain such sample. (b) No state, county, municipal or metropolitan form of government law enforcement officer shall participate in, lend assistance to, or be present in any official capacity at any voluntary motor vehicle checkpoint or stop conducted by a private company or research group to collect a human sample from consenting motorists stopped at the checkpoint for research or statistical purposes. (c) Subsection (b) is applicable regardless of whether the checkpoint is funded by federal grant or contract with a federal agency and regardless of whether the motorists consenting to giving a human sample are compensated or not.