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The internet-based READS service is hosted by the OverDrive® digital content platform. OverDrive® provides a user-friendly interface and an app, Libby, that features private user accounts, several browsing and searching methods for users, a holds feature, email availability notification, and a help feature. The READS Libby app also has filtering features that allow parents or guardians to work with their children to filter titles by age category. The vendor for READS is determined every five years through a Request for Proposal (RFP) that is conducted by Library & Archives.
Go to READS: https://reads.overdrive.com
Service of Process is issued under the following statutes:
- Tennessee’s Long-Arm Statutes, Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.) Title 20, Chapter 2, Part 2.
- The Tennessee Business Corporation Act, T.C.A. Title 48, Chapters 11-27
- Tennessee Nonprofit Corporation Act, T.C.A. Title 48, Chapters 51-68
- Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act ,T.C.A. Title 48,Chapters 201-248
- The Tennessee Revised Limited Liability Company Act, T.C.A. Title 48, Chapter 249
- The Tennessee Revised Uniform Partnership Act, T.C.A. Title 61, Chapter 1
- Tennessee Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, T.C.A. Title 61, Chapter 2
The Hague Convention is preprinted as an annotation to Rule 4, 28 U.S.C.A., Fed. R. Civ. P., Rules 1011, (1992) (Annotation to Rule 4).
The Secretary of State’s office will provide printable mock ballots. However, schools may conduct a mock election in whatever manner works best for their students.
Anyone interested in offering suggestions for titles to be included in READS, please email Reads.Support@tn.gov. Such requests will be reviewed in accordance with the entire READS Collection Development Policy as well as available funding.
The Division of Business Services processes over 13,800 summonses annually.
You can still participate! We encourage students who are part of a homeschool association to conduct a mock election and report their results.
Sign up HERE to participate in the mock election.
The point of contact designated for each school will receive instructions on how to report your school’s results through our website.
All Tennessee schools can participate including public, private and home school associations in grades PreK – 12.
The Service of Process Search allows you to check on the status of a Service of Process issuance by the defendant’s last name (or company name if a company) or by court docket number. This database reflects all non-archived processes served through the Tennessee Secretary of State as of three working days prior to the requested date. Service of Process records are archived on an annual basis.
A Service of Process filing may be rejected for many reasons. Some of the most common reasons are:
- An insufficient number of copies of the summons are submitted (an original and one certified copy are required for each defendant).
- An address for an out-of-state defendant is not provided.
- The defendant and/or agent for Service of Process has a Tennessee address requiring Service of Process by the Sheriff of the county of the defendant and/or agent not by the Secretary of State.
- The $20.00 filing fee is not enclosed.
- The check, bank draft, or money order is not made payable to the “Tennessee Secretary of State.”
- The original and/or certified copy of the summons is not signed by the Clerk or Deputy Clerk.
- The Clerk’s certified stamp, seal, or imprint is not affixed to the summons.
- The process is to be served on an insurance company requiring Service of Process through the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance.
- The action is instituted in a court outside Tennessee.