Dorrier v. Dark

OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

In his petition to rehear, appellant argues that T.C.A. § 49-212, which allows local boards of education to hold executive sessions, was not specifically repealed by the Open Meetings Act, Chapter 442, Public Acts of 1974,1 as required by Article 2, § 17 of our State Constitution. Additionally, he raises the point that T.C.A. § 49-212, which allows local school boards to meet in executive session on matters not involving the expenditure of public funds, was amended at the same session of the Legislature but subsequent to the passage of the Open Meetings Act.2 This,…