Public Chapter 274

SENATE BILL NO. 606

By Henry

Substituted for: House Bill No. 790

By Langster

AN ACT To amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 62, Chapter 35, relative to private protective services.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 62-35-103(a), is amended by deleting the word "or" at the end of subdivision (8), by deleting the period (.) at the end of subdivision (9) and substituting instead the language "; or" and by adding the following language as a new subdivision (10):

(10) A special deputy appointed pursuant to §8-8-212 or a special policeman appointed by the chief of police in a county having a metropolitan form of government and a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000) according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming law, the public welfare requiring it.