Bylaws and Tennessee Code Summary

After the failed phone call referred to earlier, I researched Tennessee law on corporations (both religious and otherwise).

Tennessee Code states that the following must be released within 5 business days to members who ask in writing, purposing to use the material for appropriate uses:

(1) Its [the organization's] charter or restated charter and all amendments to it currently in effect;

(2) Its bylaws or restated bylaws and all amendments to them currently in effect;

(3) Resolutions adopted by its board of directors relating to the characteristics, qualifications, rights, limitations and obligations of members or any class or category of members;

(4) The minutes of all meetings of members and records of all actions approved by the members for the past three (3) years;

If you want to look at the Tennessee laws on this for yourself, you can find them at

http://198.187.128.12/tennessee/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=fs-main.htm&2.0

Once you get to the site, expand the "Tennessee Code" section on the left of your screen, scroll down to Title 48 (Corporations and Associations), scroll to chapter 67 (Records and Reports), and look at it and its subsections and Chapter 67 and its subsections.

Ok folks, you've got the legal info, now let's get some requests out there. Send them to:

Associate Pastor Mark Dougharty
c/o Bellevue Baptist Church
200o Appling Road
Cordova, TN 38016