Emergency Communications Division
Tennessee Attorney General Opinions
Official Published Opinions
- (Year-Opinion Number) Followed By Subject
- (85-114) Governmental entities’ exemption from emergency communications district service charge
- (85-205) District authority to hire and manage employees necessary to staff PSAP and may enter into interlocal agreements with other agencies to perform PSAP functions
- (86-026) Eligibility of district board members to participate in existing local retirement system and Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System
- (92-69) Amendment of Service Charge Rate in E-911 Districts
- (93-65) Whether 911 tapes that are not part of an ongoing police investigation are open to the public
- (93-72) Creation of municipal emergency communications district (Superceded by Tenn. Code Ann. § 7-86-310)
- (94-07) Appropriation of 911 funds for road signs
- (94-013) Legality of Appointment by County Executive of County Commission to E911 Communication District Board of Directors
- (95-24) Manner of appointing E911 district boards
- (95-32) Liability for failure to erect road name signs
- (95-050) Propriety of E911 dispatcher serving as judicial commissioner
- (95-064) Appropriation of E911 revenues for emergency service units; disposition of equipment used prior to changing response method
- (96-004) Propriety of levying fees on cellular telephone users (Superceded by amendments to Tenn. Code Ann. § 7-86-108)
- (96-144) Propriety of district furnishing names and addresses of unlisted telephone number holders to the public
- (97-091) Propriety of using revenue obtained pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 7-86-101 et seq. to purchase emergency vehicle radio receivers
- (98-183) Propriety of city creating a new emergency communications district without approval of the Emergency Communications Board
- (98-094) Propriety of requiring districts to make addresses held with unpublished telephone numbers available to county election commissions
- (99-022) Propriety of withholding 911 tape recordings from public disclosure during a criminal investigation involving the recordings
- (99-152) Propriety of telephonic attendance of public meetings by members of state or local boards (Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-44-108 attached)
- (99-219) Propriety of an emergency dispatcher concurrently being employed by a bonding company or attorney
- (01-005) Whether emergency technicians are required by law to provide medical services at all times to the exclusion of other duties; whether emergency service personnel are legally permitted to work for a first responder that limits its responses only to those calls involving life threatening situations
- (01-057) Propriety of city, county or emergency communications districts establishing and enforcing policies requiring that street numbers by clearly marked on all homes and businesses
- (03-088) Authority to name private roads and assign property numbers relating thereto
- (03-093) Extent that emergency medical technicians and paramedics are personally immune from tort suits
- (03-124) Sheriffs accessing 911 database for warrants
- (04-65) Joint Agreement for emergency communications service
- (05-155) Access to Recording of 911 Calls and Law Enforcement Radio Transmissions
- (06-22) Dispatchers who are not US citizens
- (06-54) Authority to Rename Public Roads
- (07-38) Application of E911 Charges to T-1 and PRI Circuits
- (07-128) Use of Emergency Communications District Funds for Purposes Other Than 911
- (08-30) Sheriff’s Dispatcher Funded by Emergency Communications District Serving as District Director
- (08-193) Maintenance of Effort: State Grants for Libraries and Emergency Communications Boards
- (09-13) Removal of Members of the Board of Directors of an Emergency Communications District
- (09-87) Allocation of Emergency Communications Fund; “SafeLink” Program
Unofficial Opinions
- (U/Year-Opinon Number) Followed By Subject
- (U85-039) Whether Shelby County Commission must approve ECD contracts in excess of $50,000
- (U89-16) Whether a district may use revenues collected pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 7-86-108 to fund a PSAP and radio dispatching equipment; what governmental entity has the power to authorize radio dispatching; may a county or municipality supplement funding for radio dispatching; duties in establishing county-wide emergency dispatching
- (U90-49) Propriety of district contracting with private organization for answering and dispatching emergency calls to agencies
- (U90-104) Boundaries, consolidation and exclusivity of emergency communications districts
- (U91-31) Payment of compensation to district board members for services performed at the direction of the district board
- (U91-154) Recording of calls, method of handling calls, contracting for services, and control of 911 system
- (U92-137) Propriety of a district board imposing 911 service fees greater than the statutory maximum
- (U93-19) Propriety of expending revenues collected pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 7-86-108 on the acquisition and installation of street signs
- (U93-21) Conflict of interest in appointing ECD board members
- (U93-30) Propriety of the board of directors of district determining the location of the dispatcher for the district
