1. (1) Act. The Tennessee Public Records Act, T.C.A. §§ 10-7-501, et seq.
2. (2) Bureau. The Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance.
3. (3) Executive Director. The Executive Director of the Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance.
4. (4) Non-Routine Copy. A copy, whether of paper or of electronically stored data, which, to be made, requires more than minimal staff assistance, e.g., odd or oversized pages, bound documents that must be disassembled before copying and reassembled after copying, an unusually large number of copies, or manipulation or retrieval of electronically stored data.
5. (5) Public Record. For purposes of this Chapter, any record of the Bureau that is deemed to be open to inspection by the public pursuant to the provisions of the Tennessee Public Records Act, T.C.A. §§ 10-7-501 et seq., and pursuant to court order and case law interpreting the Act, with the proviso that a document may be within an exception otherwise provided by state law pursuant to T.C.A. § 10-7-503(a), and therefore may not be subject to inspection or copying.
6. (6) Record. For the purposes of this Chapter, any data and/or documents developed and maintained by the Bureau (whether on paper, magnetically, or electronically, whether on a single computer or on a computer system, whether on disk, tape or otherwise), or that have been received and are maintained by the Bureau, during the normal course of the Bureau’s CAMPAIGN FINANCE activities. A Record may or may not be a Public Record. Records of the Bureau are retained, transferred, or destroyed in accordance with state record retention laws.
7. (7) A black and white copy, whether of paper or of electronically stored data, which, to be made, requires minimal staff assistance, e.g., pages which are either 8½ x 11 or 8½ x 14 and can be automatically printed from electronically stored records or automatically fed into a standard copier.

Authority: T.C.A. §§ 3-6-101, 3-6-103, 3-6-107, 4-5-201, et seq., 4-55-107, and 10-7-501, et seq.; Tennessean v. Electric Power Board of Nashville, 979 S.W.2d 297 (Tenn. 1998); and Op. Tenn. Atty. Gen. 01-021 (Feb. 8, 2001). Administrative History: Original rule filed November 30, 2007; effective March 28, 2008. Amendment filed February 27, 2009; effective June 26, 2009. Amendments filed August 19, 2025; effective November 17, 2025.