TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 2, 2015

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery ruled yesterday that Nashville's local-hire mandate, which voters approved in August, is invalid because it violates state law, the Nashville Business Journal reports. According to Slatery, the city rule violates the Contractors Licensing Act of 1994, which prohibits municipalities and counties from imposing on state-licensed contractors any requirements in addition to those imposed by act. The same law also prohibits localities from discriminating against contractors licensed by the state “on the basis of the licensee’s nonresidency within the county or municipality.” Read the opinion.