Tennessee Code Annotated

Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-3-406 (2026)

Laws in conflict with rules nullified

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After the rules have become effective, all laws in conflict with the rules shall be of no further force or effect.

Acts 1965, ch. 227, § 5; T.C.A., § 16-116.


Notes of Decisions
Cited in 24 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1981–2026 · leading case: Eddie C. Pratcher, Jr. v. Methodist Healthcare Memphis Hospitals, 407 S.W.3d 727 (Tenn. 2013).
Eddie C. Pratcher, Jr. v. Methodist Healthcare Memphis Hospitals, 407 S.W.3d 727 (Tenn. 2013). · cites it 4× “Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-3-406 (2009) (“After the rules have become effective, all laws in conflict with the rules shall be of no further force or effect.”
Haynes v. McKenzie Mem'l Hosp., 667 S.W.2d 497 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1984). · cites it 10× “Any questions that might have risen regarding whether the writ of error was “procedural” or a “substantive right” and the power of the Supreme Court to “repeal” legislative acts, if such acts were substantive rights, have been mooted by the passage of T.C.A. § 16-3-406 which…”
State v. Mallard, 40 S.W.3d 473 (Tenn. 2001). · cites it 2× “In so finding, however, the Court of Criminal Appeals overlooked the effect of Tennessee Code Annotated section 16-3-406 (1994), which provides that “[a]fter such rules shall have become effective, all law in conflict therewith shall be of no further force or effect.”
Mid-South Pavers, Inc. v. Arnco Constr., Inc., 771 S.W.2d 420 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 4× “Any conflicting statutes not specifically repealed were and are effectively nullified by T.C.A. § 16-3-406 (1980). It is clear that not every provision of every statute which conflicted has been specifically repealed.”
State v. West, 19 S.W.3d 753 (Tenn. 2000). · cites it 2× “See Tenn.Code Ann. § 16-3-406 (1994) (stating that after Supreme Court rules become effective, “all laws in conflict therewith shall be of no further force or effect.”
Arnold v. City of Chattanooga, 19 S.W.3d 779 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 2× “T.C.A. § 16-3-406 states that once the Rules of Civil Procedure have become effective, ‘all laws in conflict therewith shall be of no further force or effect.”
Tennison Bros., Inc. v. William H. Thomas, Jr., 556 S.W.3d 697 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2017). “§ 16-3-406: “After such rules shall have become effective, all laws in conflict therewith shall be of no further force or effect.”
Thomas Goodman Rutherford v. Melodey Joice Lawson Rutherford, 416 S.W.3d 845 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 2× “The time period at issue is contained in a statute, Tennessee Code Annotated Section 36-6-108(g), which states, in pertinent part: “In the event no petition in opposition to a proposed relocation is filed within thirty (30) days of receipt of the notice, the parent proposing to…”
Lock v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co., 809 S.W.2d 483 (Tenn. 1991). “4 Tennessee Code Annotated § 16-3-406 states that “after such rules shall have become effective, all laws in conflict therewith shall be of no further force or effect.”
Bush v. Bradshaw, 615 S.W.2d 157 (Tenn. 1981). · cites it 2× “See Rule 1, Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure and T.C.A. § 16-3-406. Rule 6 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure provides that “a bond for costs on appeal shall be filed by the appellant in the trial court with the notice of appeal.”
Windell Middleton v. City of Millington, Tennessee (Tenn. Ct. App. 2018). · cites it 4× “” Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-3-406 . Thus, even assuming the Millington City Charter authorizes the City Clerk to act as the mayor’s agent in this way, to allow the Millington City Charter to “supersede” Rule 4.”
Janie Marie Marcum-Bush v. Kevin Patrick Quinn (Tenn. Ct. App. 2018). · cites it 2× “See Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-3-406 (2017) (“After the rules have become effective, all laws in conflict with the rules shall be of no further force or effect.”
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