2010 Tennessee Code
Title 40 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 35 - Criminal Sentencing Reform Act of 1989
Part 2 - Procedure for Imposing Sentence
40-35-215 - Sentence calculation.

40-35-215. Sentence calculation.

(a)  (1)  The chief administrator of any local jail, workhouse or other facility in which persons serve criminal sentences on non-consecutive days or in any manner other than continuous confinement or day for day shall formulate and reduce to writing the method by which the facility calculates the service of an hour, day, and month.

     (2)  As used in this section “service of an hour, day or month” means the period of time a person must be incarcerated in the facility in order to reduce the person's court imposed sentence by an hour, day or month.

(b)  At the first meeting of the county or municipal legislative body in which the facility is located, conducted after July 1, 1995, the chief administrator shall submit the formulation of the method of sentence calculation required by subsection (a) to the legislative body for its approval. The legislative body shall approve or modify and approve the sentence calculation.

(c)  Upon the approval by the legislative body of the facility's sentence calculations, the chief administrator shall publish the sentence calculations and cause them to be prominently posted at the local jail, workhouse or facility for which they are applicable.

[Acts 1995, ch. 440, § 1.]