§ 2-16-103. Composition of state congressional districts.

TN Code § 2-16-103 (2019) (N/A)
Copy with citation
Copy as parenthetical citation

(a)

(1) All census descriptions, counties, voting districts (VTDs), tracts, blocks, census delineations, census district lines and other census designations are those established for or by the United States department of commerce, bureau of the census, for taking the 2010 federal decennial census in Tennessee as contained in the automated geographic database, known as the TIGER (topologically integrated geographic encoding and referencing) system.

(2) As provided in subsection (b), each district is described county by county in alphabetical order and, if a county is split, by the portion of such split county. Split counties are described by VTDs and, if further divided, by census blocks.

(b) The state of Tennessee is divided into the following nine (9) congressional districts composed as follows:

(1) District 1:

(2) District 2:

(3) District 3:

(4) District 4:

(5) District 5:

(6) District 6:

(7) District 7:

(8) District 8:

(9) District 9:

(c) It is the legislative intent that all congressional districts be contiguous and contiguity by water is sufficient, and, toward that end, if any voting district or other geographical entity designated as a portion of a district is found to be noncontiguous with the larger portion of such district, it shall be constituted a portion of the district smallest in population to which it is contiguous.