2010 Tennessee Code
Title 40 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 11 - Bail
Part 1 - Admission to Bail
40-11-107 - Taking bail before commitment.

40-11-107. Taking bail before commitment.

The committing magistrate or the city court clerk of any incorporated municipality or city or that person's deputies, before whom a defendant is brought for examination on a warrant of arrest, are authorized to take bail, either for the defendant's appearance for examination or for the defendant's appearance at court to answer the charge.

[Acts 1978, ch. 506, § 7; T.C.A., § 40-1207.]  

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