Whenever a student, employee or other person entitled to a hearing by virtue of the "Uniform Administrative Procedures Act" requests a hearing, that hearing will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the "Contested Cases" section of the Act unless the party requesting a hearing executes a waiver of right to proceed under the Act and elects to follow the informal procedures set forth in the student or faculty handbook, personnel policies and procedures manual or other applicable University procedure. A person electing to proceed under the "Contested Cases" provisions of the "Uniform Administrative Procedures Act" shall have no right to be heard on the same matter under a University procedure.
Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1720-01-03-.02
Authority: "Public Acts of Tennessee, 1839-1840", Chapter 98, Section 5 and "Public Acts of Tennessee, 1807", Chapter 64.