Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-18-301 (2026)
Short title - Construction of terms
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Municipal Court Reform Act of 2004."
- (b) As used in this part:
- (1) "Any law to the contrary" includes, but is not limited to, any conflicting provision of any general statute, local law, private act, charter provision, municipal law or municipal ordinance; and
- (2) "Municipal court" includes the city, town, mayor's, recorder's or municipal court, or other similarly functioning court, however designated, for any city, town, municipality or metropolitan government, whether the court exists pursuant to general statute, local law, private act, charter provision, municipal law, municipal ordinance or other legal authorization.
Acts 2004, ch. 914, § 1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2008–2025 · leading case: City of Knoxville v. Brown, 284 S.W.3d 330 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2008).
City of Knoxville v. Brown, 284 S.W.3d 330 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2008). “The Municipal Court Reform Act of 2004, codified at Tenn.Code Ann. § 16-18-301, et seq., sets forth the jurisdiction of municipal courts.”
City of Milan, TN v. Frederick H. Agee (2025). “” Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-18-301 et seq. This particular section of the act prescribes certain steps to be taken when a municipality is determining whether to confer general sessions jurisdiction upon a municipal court.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.