Section 1395-01-05-.08 - VIOLATIONS- PENALTIES(1) An individual who knowingly falsifies a sexual offender registration/ monitoring form or verification/ monitoring form shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense, which is punishable by confinement in the county jail for not less than one hundred eighty (180) days.(2) Any subsequent violation shall constitute a Class E felony.(3) If the offender is on probation, parole, or any other alternative to incarceration, then such falsification shall also constitute grounds for revocation of probation, parole, or other alternative to incarceration.(4) An offender who knowingly fails to timely disclose required information including signature or photographs or to timely deliver required registration/ monitoring or verification/ monitoring forms to the TBI CIU shall be deemed to have committed a falsification to the same extent as actually providing false information.(5) In a prosecution for violation of the registration and/or monitoring requirements, in lieu of live testimony the TBI CIU records custodian may issue a sworn affidavit regarding the registry records of registered sexual offenders.Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1395-01-05-.08
Original rule filed December 19, 2001; effective April 30, 2002.Authority: T.C.A. § 40-39-108.