17-5-102 - Applicability. - Tennessee Statutes

17-5-102. Applicability.

This chapter applies to:

     (1)  All Tennessee judges, to include, but not be restricted to, appellate, trial, general sessions, probate, juvenile, municipal and any other judge sitting on or presiding over any court heretofore, or hereafter, created by the general assembly or by the express or implied authority of the general assembly;

     (2)  All persons for their conduct while sitting or presiding over any judicial proceeding, including, but not limited to, persons sitting by special appointment; and

     (3)  Candidates for judicial office, as defined by the code of judicial conduct.

[Acts 1979, ch. 356, § 2; T.C.A., § 17-802; Acts 1983, ch. 17, § 1; 1995, ch. 208, § 2; 2002, ch. 564, § 3.]