Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-17-105 (2026)
Time for filing complaint
✓ current as of May 2026
The complaint contesting an election under § 2-17-101 shall be filed within five (5) days after certification of the election.
Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., §2-1705; Acts 2008 , ch. 1108, § 4.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 16
cases, 1983–2017 · leading case: City of Oakland v. McCraw, 126 S.W.3d 29 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2003).
City of Oakland v. McCraw, 126 S.W.3d 29 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2003). “§ 6-l-210(b) and also presents the issue of whether the action instituted by an adjoining incorporated municipality to invalidate the incorporation of the neighboring area is an election contest governed by the limitation period established by T.C.A. § 2-17-105. The trial court…”
Forbes v. Bell, 816 S.W.2d 716 (Tenn. 1991). “Forbes filed her complaint and an amended complaint *718 within ten days after the election, as required by T.C.A. § 2-17-105. The trial court denied Forbes’s motion to file a second amended complaint outside the statutory ten-day period and dismissed the first two complaints…”
Brenda Woods, Tawana Polk, Jonathan Joy, & Clifton Polk v. Cathy N. Jones, Adm'r of Elections, Hardeman Cnty. Election Comm'n, 204 S.W.3d 788 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006). “The defendants filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit based on the special ten-day statute of limitations for election contests, which is set out in T.C.A. § 2-17-105. The trial court granted the motion to dismiss.”
Brackin v. Sumner Cnty. ex rel. Sumner Cnty. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 814 S.W.2d 57 (Tenn. 1991). “It may not have gotten beyond the stages of a one-man campaign because of the time limitations mandated by T.C.A. § 2-17-105, 1 but he certainly had 6,100 supporters who had signed his petitions, among whom were advocates who had contributed to his campaign.”
Crawford v. Gilpatrick, 646 S.W.2d 433 (Tenn. 1983). “n elected to the office of Judge of the Court of General Sessions of Clay County be a “licensed attorney,” we affirm the decree of the chancellor holding that appellant is not qualified to hold the office of Judge of the Court of General Sessions of Clay County to which he was…”
Sanders v. Parks, 718 S.W.2d 676 (Tenn. 1986). “The applicable statutes are as follows: T.C.A. § 2-17-105. Time for filing complaint.”
William Thomas McFarland v. Michael S. Pemberton, 530 S.W.3d 76 (2017). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-17-105 (2014). 12 The five Commissioners named were Lowell P.”
City of Oakland, Tennessee v. Lenita Mccraw (Tenn. Ct. App. 2003). “The trial court held that Chapter 129, Public Acts of 2001, is unconstitutional and further held that the incorporated municipality’s action to invalidate the unincorporated area’s referendum election and to revoke its charter is not an election contest governed by T.C.A. §…”
William Thomas McFarland v. Michael S. Pemberton (Tenn. 2017). “§ 2-17-112 (2014), and provide that “[i]f the person whose election is contested is found to have received the highest number of legal votes, 5 Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-17-105 (“The complaint contesting an election under § 2-17-101 shall be filed within five (5) days after…”
Clarice C. White v. Mary Jo Dozier & the Montgomery Cnty. Election Comm'n (Tenn. Ct. App. 2000). “Within the ten-day limitation provided by Tennessee Code Annotated section 2-17-105, Ms. White filed suit in the Chancery Court for Montgomery County contesting the election.”
Regina Morrison Newman v. Shelby Cnty. Election Comm'n (Tenn. Ct. App. 2012). “Tennessee Code Annotated Section 2-17-105 provides that a “complaint contesting an election under §2-17-101 shall be filed within five (5) days after certification of the election.”
W. Allen Barrett v. Giles Cnty. (Tenn. Ct. App. 2011). “2009) (pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-17-105 , an election contest is filed “after the election”).”
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.