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TN Code § 4-21-312 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 3 - Violations—procedures|§ 4-21-312. Election of Civil Action

  This section applies only in cases involving discriminatory housing practices.   If the commission has determined that there is reasonable cause to believe that the respondent has engaged in a discriminatory housing practice and if the complaint has not been resolved through a conciliation agreement, the commission shall notify the complainant and the respondent in writing that they may elect to have the claims and issues of the complaint decided in a civil action commenced and maintained by the commission. Either the complainant or the respondent may make such an election by notifying the commission of the complainant's or respondent's desire to do so. A party shall make an election for a civil action no later than twenty (20) days after receiving notice of permission to do so.   If an election is made under this section, no later than sixty (60) days after the election is made, the commission shall commence a civil action in the chancery court or circuit court in a county in which the subject of the complaint occurs, or in a county in which a respondent resides or has the respondent's principal place of business.   In a civil action brought under this section, the court may grant relief as it deems appropriate, including any permanent or temporary injunction, temporary restraining order, or other equitable relief, and may award to any person compensatory and punitive damages. Parties to a civil action brought pursuant to this section shall have the right to a jury trial.
TN Code § 4-21-313 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 3 - Violations—procedures|§ 4-21-313. Limitations on Compensatory Damage Amounts — Exclusions From Application of Limits

  For any cause of action arising under § 4-21-401, § 8-50-103, or § 50-1-304, the sum of the amount of compensatory damages awarded for future pecuniary losses, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, and other nonpecuniary losses, shall not exceed, for each complaining party:  In the case of a cause of action arising under § 50-1-304 and an employer who has less than eight (8) employees at the time the cause of action arose, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000);   In the case of an employer who has eight (8) or more but fewer than fifteen (15) employees at the time the cause of action arose, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000);   In the case of an employer who has more than fourteen (14) and fewer than one hundred one (101) employees at the time the cause of action arose, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000);   In the case of an employer who has more than one hundred (100) and fewer than two hundred one (201) employees at the time the cause of action arose, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000);   In the case of an employer who has more than two hundred (200) and fewer than five hundred one (501) employees at the time the cause of action arose, two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000); and   In the case of an employer who has more than five hundred (500) employees at the time the cause of action arose, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000).     The limitations in subsection (a) shall not apply to backpay, interest on backpay, front pay, or any equitable relief.   The court shall not inform a jury of the limitations in subsection (a), but the court shall conform any judgment to comply with the limitations.   For the purpose of determining when the cause of action arose under subsection (a), the court shall determine the number of employees employed by the employer on the date when the adverse employment action giving rise to the employee's claim occurred.
TN Code § 4-21-314 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 3 - Violations—procedures|§ 4-21-314. Simultaneous Action in State and Federal Courts Concerning Common Nucleus of Operative Facts Prohibited

 No employee may concurrently maintain any cause of action in state court under § 4-21-401, § 8-50-103, or § 50-1-304, while at the same time prosecuting an action in federal court based on a common nucleus of operative facts. Upon motion of the employer, the state court shall dismiss any action maintained under § 4-21-401, § 8-50-103, or § 50-1-304, in which the employee is concurrently prosecuting an action based on a common nucleus of operative facts in federal court.
TN Code § 4-21-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 4 - Employment-Related Discrimination|§ 4-21-401. Employer Practices

  It is a discriminatory practice for an employer to:  Fail or refuse to hire or discharge any person or otherwise to discriminate against an individual with respect to compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment because of such individual's race, creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin; or   Limit, segregate or classify an employee or applicants for employment in any way that would deprive or tend to deprive an individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect the status of an employee, because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin.     This section does not apply to the employment of an individual by such individual's parent, spouse or child or to employment in the domestic service of the employer.   It is not a discriminatory practice for an employer to institute a policy in the employer's workplace requiring that all employees speak only in English at certain times when the employer has a legitimate business necessity for such a policy, including, but not limited to, the safe and efficient operation of the employer's business, and the employer provides notice to employees of the policy and the consequences of violating the policy.    No employer shall terminate an employee who is a volunteer rescue squad worker, as this term is defined in § 7-51-210, because the employee, when acting as a volunteer rescue squad worker, is absent or late to the employee's employment in order to respond to an emergency prior to the time the employee is to report to the employee's place of employment.   An employer may charge against the employee's regular pay any time that an employee who is a volunteer rescue squad worker loses from employment because of the employee's response to an emergency.   An employer has the right to request an employee who loses time from the employee's employment to respond to an emergency to provide the employer with a written statement from the supervisor or acting supervisor of the volunteer rescue squad worker stating that the employee responded to an emergency and list the time and date of the emergency.   Any employee who is absent or late to the employee's employment in order to respond to an emergency shall make a reasonable effort to notify the employee's employer that the employee may be absent or late.   Any employee terminated in violation of this section may bring a civil action against the employee's employer. The employee may seek reinstatement to the employee's former position, payment of back wages, reinstatement of fringe benefits, and where seniority rights are granted, the reinstatement of seniority rights. The employee has one (1) year from the date of a violation of this section to file an action.
TN Code § 4-21-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 4 - Employment-Related Discrimination|§ 4-21-402. Labor Organization Practices

 It is a discriminatory practice for a labor organization to:   Exclude or expel from membership, or otherwise to discriminate against a member or applicant for membership because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin;   Limit, segregate, or classify membership or application for membership or to classify or fail or refuse to refer for employment on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin, in a manner that would deprive or tend to deprive any person of employment opportunities, or that would limit employment opportunities or to otherwise adversely affect the status of an employee or of an applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin; or   Cause or attempt to cause an employer to violate this chapter.
TN Code § 4-21-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 4 - Employment-Related Discrimination|§ 4-21-403. Employment Agency Practices

 It is a discriminatory practice for an employment agency to classify or refer for employment, or to fail or refuse to refer for employment, or otherwise to discriminate against any person because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin.
TN Code § 4-21-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 4 - Employment-Related Discrimination|§ 4-21-404. Training Program Practices

 It is a discriminatory practice for:   An employer, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee controlling apprenticeship, or on-the-job, or other training or retraining programs, to discriminate against an individual because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, or national origin, in admission to, or employment in, a program established to provide apprenticeship or other training;   An employer, labor organization, employment agency or joint labor-management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining programs, including on-the-job training programs, to print, publish or circulate or cause to be printed, published or circulated any statement, advertisement or publication relating to employment by such an employer, or membership in such organization or any classification or referral for employment by such labor organization, or relating to any classification or referral for employment by such an employment agency or relating to admission to, or employment in, any program established to provide apprenticeship or other training by such a joint labor-management committee indicating any preference, limitation, specification or discrimination based on race, creed, color, religion, sex or national origin; except that such advertisement or publication may indicate preference, limitation or specification based on religion or sex when religion or sex is a bona fide occupational qualification for employment.
TN Code § 4-21-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 4 - Employment-Related Discrimination|§ 4-21-405. Religious Groups Exempted

 This chapter shall not apply to religious corporations, associations, educational institutions, or societies, with respect to the employment of individuals of a particular religion to perform work connected with the carrying on by the corporation, association, educational institution, or society, of its religious activities.
TN Code § 4-21-406 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 4 - Employment-Related Discrimination|§ 4-21-406. Religion or Sex as Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications — Affirmative Action Plans

  It is not a discriminatory practice for:  An employer to employ employees;   An employment agency to classify, or refer for employment any individual;   A labor organization to classify its members or to classify or refer for employment any individual; or   An employer, labor organization, or joint training or retraining programs to admit or employ any individual in any such program;  on the basis of religion or sex in those certain instances where religion or sex is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise.      It is not a discriminatory practice for a person subject to this chapter to adopt and carry out a plan to fill vacancies or hire new employees so as to eliminate or reduce imbalance with respect to race, creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin, if the plan has been filed with the commission and the commission has not disapproved the plan.
TN Code § 4-21-501 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 5 - Discrimination in Public Accommodations|§ 4-21-501. Discrimination Prohibited

 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it is a discriminatory practice for a person to deny an individual the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages and accommodations of a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement, as defined in this chapter, on the grounds of race, creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin.
TN Code § 4-21-502 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 5 - Discrimination in Public Accommodations|§ 4-21-502. Advertisement Indicating Discriminatory Policy

 It is a discriminatory practice for a person, directly or indirectly, to publish, circulate, issue, display or mail or cause to be published, circulated, issued, displayed or mailed a written, printed, oral or visual communication, notice or advertisement that indicates that the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages and accommodations or a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement will be refused, withheld from or denied an individual on account of the individual's race, creed, color, religion, sex or national origin; or that the patronage of, or presence at, a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement, of an individual on account of the individual's race, creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin is objectionable, unwelcome, unacceptable or undesirable.
TN Code § 4-21-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 5 - Discrimination in Public Accommodations|§ 4-21-503. Segregation on Basis of Sex

 Nothing in this part shall prohibit segregation on the basis of sex of bathrooms, health clubs, rooms for sleeping or changing clothes, or other places of public accommodation the commission specifically exempts on the basis of bona fide considerations of public policy.
TN Code § 4-21-603 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 6 - Discrimination in Housing and Financing|§ 4-21-603. Blockbusting

 It is a discriminatory practice for a real estate operator, a real estate broker, a real estate salesperson, a financial institution, an employee of any of these, or any other person, for the purpose of inducing a real estate transaction from which such person may benefit financially to:   Represent that a change has occurred or will or may occur in the composition with respect to race, color, creed, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin of the owners or occupants in the block, neighborhood or area in which the real property is located; or   Represent that this change will or may result in the lowering of property values, an increase in criminal or antisocial behavior, or a decline in the quality of schools in the block, neighborhood or area in which the real property is located.
TN Code § 4-21-604 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 6 - Discrimination in Housing and Financing|§ 4-21-604. Restrictive Covenants and Conditions

  Every provision in an oral agreement or a written instrument relating to real property that purports to forbid or restrict the conveyance, encumbrance, occupancy or lease thereof to individuals of a specified race, color, creed, religion, sex or national origin is void.   Every condition, restriction or prohibition, including a right of entry or possibility of reverter, that directly or indirectly limits the use or occupancy of real property on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex or national origin is void, except a limitation of use on the basis of religion of real property held by a religious institution or organization or by a religious or charitable organization operated, supervised, or controlled by a religious institution or organization, and used for religious or charitable purposes.   It is a discriminatory practice to insert in a written instrument relating to real property a provision that is void under this section or to honor or attempt to honor such a provision in the chain of title.
TN Code § 4-21-605 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 6 - Discrimination in Housing and Financing|§ 4-21-605. Agency No Defense in Proceeding

 It shall be no defense to a violation of this chapter by a real estate operator, real estate broker, real estate salesperson, financial institution, or other person subject to this chapter that the violation was requested, sought or otherwise procured by a person not subject to this chapter.
TN Code § 4-21-606 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 6 - Discrimination in Housing and Financing|§ 4-21-606. Residential Real Estate-Related Transactions

  It is an unlawful practice for any person or other entity whose business includes engaging in residential real estate-related transactions to discriminate against any person in making available such transaction, or in the terms and conditions of such transaction, because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin.   As used in this section, “residential real estate-related transaction” means:  The making or purchasing of loans or providing financial assistance:  For purchasing, constructing, improving, repairing, or maintaining a dwelling;   Where the security is residential real estate; or     The selling, brokering, or appraising of residential real estate.
TN Code § 4-21-607 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 6 - Discrimination in Housing and Financing|§ 4-21-607. Violations by Real Estate Brokers or Salespersons — Notice to Real Estate Commission

 Where a real estate broker or a real estate salesperson has failed to comply with any order issued by the commission or has been found to have committed a discriminatory housing practice in violation of § 4-21-601 or § 4-21-603, the commission shall notify in writing the real estate commission of the failure to comply or the violation.
TN Code § 4-21-701 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 7 - Malicious Harassment|§ 4-21-701. Creation of Civil Action — Damages

  There is hereby created a civil cause of action for malicious harassment.   A person may be liable to the victim of malicious harassment for both special and general damages, including, but not limited to, damages for emotional distress, reasonable attorney's fees and costs, and punitive damages.
TN Code § 4-21-702 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 7 - Malicious Harassment|§ 4-21-702. Alternative Remedies Preserved

 The remedy for malicious harassment provided in this part shall be in addition to, and shall not preclude victims from seeking, other remedies, criminal or civil, otherwise available under the law.
TN Code § 4-21-801 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 8 - Civil Rights Act of 1990|§ 4-21-801. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Civil Rights Act of 1990.”
TN Code § 4-21-802 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 8 - Civil Rights Act of 1990|§ 4-21-802. State Activities and Expenditures Prohibited

  No state official, employee or agency shall sponsor or organize a meeting or other activity, the purpose of which is related to state business, including any athletic competition, in an establishment or facility that does not afford full membership rights and privileges to a person because of sex, race, creed, color, religion, ancestry, national origin or disability.   No state funds shall be expended in connection with a meeting or other activity held at an establishment or facility that does not afford full membership rights and privileges to a person because of sex, race, creed, color, religion, ancestry, national origin or disability.   No state official, employee or agent shall be reimbursed for dues or other expenses incurred at an establishment or facility that does not afford full membership rights and privileges to a person because of sex, race, creed, color, religion, ancestry, national origin or disability.   This section shall not apply to state officials, employees or agents acting in the course of ongoing law enforcement, code enforcement or other required investigations and inspections.   For the purposes of this section, a “public official” is a person who holds an elected or appointed position in state government.
TN Code § 4-21-803 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 8 - Civil Rights Act of 1990|§ 4-21-803. Commercial Agreements With the State — Prohibition — Required Statement

  No state official, employee or agent shall enter into a commercial agreement on behalf of the state with a club that denies to a person entry, use of facilities or membership, or unreasonably prevents the full enjoyment of such club on the basis of sex, race, creed, color, religion, ancestry, national origin or disability.   Prior to entering into a commercial agreement with the state, a club must file a statement, verified by the president or chief executive officer of the club, that it does not deny a person entry, use of facilities or membership or unreasonably prevent the full enjoyment of such club on the basis of sex, race, creed, color, religion, ancestry, national origin or disability.
TN Code § 4-21-804 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 8 - Civil Rights Act of 1990|§ 4-21-804. Higher Education Adjunct Organizations — Provision of Discriminatory Club Membership Prohibited

 No adjunct organization, including, but not limited to, booster groups, of a state university, community college or institution of higher learning shall enter into a contract on behalf of, or purchase membership for, an employee of such university, college or institution of higher learning to a club that denies to a person entry, use of facilities or membership, or unreasonably prevents the full enjoyment of such club on the basis of sex, race, creed, color, religion, ancestry, national origin or disability.
TN Code § 4-21-805 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 4 - State Government|Chapter 21 - Human Rights|Part 8 - Civil Rights Act of 1990|§ 4-21-805. Enforcement

   The state of Tennessee or a person who is discriminated against in violation of this part may enforce this part by means of a civil action.   A person found to violate any of this part is liable for the actual damages caused by such violation and such other amount as may be determined by a jury or a court sitting without a jury, but in no case less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250), plus, in addition thereto, reasonable attorney's fees and court costs as may be determined by the court.      A person who commits an act or engages in any pattern and practice of discrimination in violation of this part may be enjoined therefrom by a court of competent jurisdiction.   An action for injunction under this subsection (b) may be brought by a person who is discriminated against in violation of this part by the state, or by a person or entity that will fairly and adequately represent the interests of the protected class.     Nothing in this part shall preclude any person from seeking any other remedies, penalties or procedures provided by law. No criminal penalties shall attach for a violation of this part.