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Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.) — state statutes by citation and by official catchline (topic search). Keyless.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1764+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

This pack serves a POINT-IN-TIME SNAPSHOT dated 2021-05-21, not the current code. Read "Why this is a snapshot" below before using it for anything where the exact current text matters — it says so on every response too.

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("39-13-202" is first degree murder; "66-28-301" is the security-deposit statute). Resolves the citation's title via a baked index, fetches that title's HTML live, and cuts the section out of it by its own unique anchor id. Also returns later_acts — every Public Chapter this pack's own home-built index shows touching this exact citation since the 2021-05-21 snapshot (fleet #2916, see "The overlay" below).

• tn_statute(citation) — full text of a T.C.A. section by citation

citation + official-catchline index (not full statutory body text).

• tn_search(query, limit?) — topic/keyword search over the baked

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Keyless.

Why this is a snapshot, not the current code

Tennessee's own publishing arrangement routes the maintained, current TCA exclusively through LexisNexis's advance.lexis.com — a cookie/session-gated SPA with no stable per-citation URL, confirmed live (traced lexisnexis.com/hottopics/tncode -> advance.lexis.com/container?config=..., which immediately probes for cookie support and only then begins any client-side render). That is the same class of wall this pack family treats as OUT (ASP.NET postback / anti-bot / JS-rendered SPA).

There is no OTHER official electronic route, and that absence is litigated, not merely undocumented: Public.Resource.Org v. Matthew Bender & Co., 686 S.W.3d 1 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2023) (further appeal denied by the Tennessee Supreme Court, 2024), held that Tennessee's Public Records Act does not reach the electronic TCA, because LexisNexis is a private contractor performing services for the Code Commission under a separate statutory arrangement (T.C.A. § 1-2-114), not a state agency holding a public record. Having lost that fight — and having lost electronic access to the Code even before filing it — Public.Resource.Org had UniCourt scan and transform the print volumes, publishing the result at https://unicourt.github.io/cic-code-tn/:

"This repository was created by UniCourt on behalf of Public.Resource.Org.

All this work is in the public domain and there are NO RIGHTS RESERVED."

— Release 76, dated 2021.05.21.

That public-domain claim rests on the same "edict of government" theory the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed for Georgia's own annotated code in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 590 U.S. 255 (2020) — and this is literally the same transform pipeline (cic-beautify-state-codes) and the same stylesheet reference this repo already trusts for mcps/georgia-code's upstream.

The same release is also uploaded to archive.org as item gov.tn.tca (byte-identical statutory text, verified directly). This pack calls the GitHub Pages copy instead, for two concrete reasons found during development, not a preference in the abstract:

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.